Ep. 49: Good God in a Bad World

The question of natural evil is often a stumbling block for believers and non-believers. Todd and Paul discuss different sorts of natural evil and how the Young-Age Creation Model can help us understand these things.

Resources mentioned in the podcast:

Thank God for Microbes (Let’s Talk Creation podcast episode featuring Dr. Joe Francis) https://youtu.be/YWpfprKSPy0

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm; Farrer, Austin (2005). Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil. Translated by Huggard, E. M. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17147

William Paley. Natural Theology; or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity. Collected from the Appearances of Nature. 1809. http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=A142&pageseq=1&viewtype=text

Alvin Plantinga. God, Freedom, and Evil. 1989. https://www.amazon.com/God-Freedom-Evil-Alvin-Plantinga/dp/0802817319

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.  This poem includes the famous phrase. “Nature red in tooth and claw” https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/books/tennyson/tennyson04.html

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