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CC187: Has @CosmicSkeptic Found Christianity's Biggest Problem? (Response)

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Is God a Good Reason to Allow Animal Suffering?

In order to explain animal suffering, alex needs atheism plus evolution or some other hypothesis to account for suffering. If alex can just sort of add something to atheism in order to account for animal suffering, it seems like the christian ought to be able to do the same to christianity. For example, the christian could add an aux ary hypothesis, like god has a good reason for allowing animal suffering. This might seem like cheating, but this is kind of what alex is doing. In fact, he's not adding anything to Atheism. He's Adding To Evolution. And this move raises two very serious problems in my view. So first, alex's combination

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