The Problem of Evil

'It just seems really surprising that god would use, in his very creative act, this su this process which is rife with suffering and languishing and death and privation and parasitism,' he says. 'We wouldn't predict that, just a priori from the arm chair, would we predict a perfect being to about,. let's say, humans and other essential creatures by means of an evolutionary process fraught with this kind of evil' He adds: 'I think there are some complications when you talk about human beings, because there seems to be something elsethat could be said to be going on there.' The argument works if we're just talking about non-human animals, but not