The Problem of Evil

Swinburn: I think the idea that animals don't feel pain at all, that they're just mechanistic, is vacuous. Richard Swinburn's response to this is not the path you're going to take. He thinks what he would rather do is enter the discussion with the problem of evil more generally. And so it's at least conceivably possible that God does have perfectly good justification for all of the suffering that he's invigilated.