Steve wrote:
>My concern is that it is *largely* unnecessary! The distinction
>Polkinghorne (and many others) make between moral and natural evil is too
>marked. Many, if not all, natural evils can be traced back to moral evils.
I agree that human sin has been the source of great ecological destruction,
and has greatly increases the "hazard" of natural hazards. List members
might be interested in my recent Perspectives article "Natural hazards:
Challenges to the creation mandate of dominion?" (PSCF, vol.53, no.3,
p.184-187).
However, the death and suffering which is an integral part of God's
creation is a reality that must be dealt with on its own terms. This
aspect of "natural evil" is not easily accomodated by appeals to human sin.
Keith
Keith B. Miller
Department of Geology
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
kbmill@ksu.edu
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~kbmill/
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