Monday, April 11, 2011

Evil

The series Why Does Evil Exist? is mostly about human evil in the context of the world. But it really downplays natural evil --plagues, famines, earthquakes, birth defects...hey, even death itself-- in favor of moral evil: intentional action by intelligent beings.

If the evolutionary narrative is true, that our species evolved from earlier or older species, all of whom have to eat other species in order to live and have to compete for procreation, then the question becomes how to account for good!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"then the question becomes how to account for good!"

But that is easy. There is good because good guys can band together to kill and eat bad guys.

--Nathan

OreamnosAmericanus said...

Now there's a man with his feet on the ground :)

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