The Problem of Natural Evil

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"Pain is very important. We are equipped with nerves that give us pain," he says. "I have been so impressed at palliative doctors who are in the business of trying to alleviate some of that pain, not all of it." He asks: Why a good God allows this level of suffering? And since I'm going to come on where I can't cure cancer, there is a cross between Christianity and atheism.

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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