The Limits of Dawkins' Naturalism

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Dawkins' view is that in a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect," he says. "If there is at the bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference, DNA neither knows nor cares"

For the religious believer and the atheist alike, the problem of evil and suffering is troubling. If there is a God, why does he allow so much evil? And if there isn’t a God, how can we say that anything is evil?

In this Forum event from 2014 at Harvard Medical School, Oxford mathematician John Lennox addresses one of the most challenging human questions: where is God in suffering?

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