RE: [asa] Neo-Darwinism and God's action

Don Winterstein wrote:
"Evil" occurs as a consequence of God's priorities: God could not achieve
his goals for his creation unless he allowed it independence. All "evils"
great and small stem from the independence of the creation: God allows it
the freedom to do largely what it "wants."
... John Tandy's recent post exhibits similar thinking but supplies no
motive..."
 
 
I just comment that I fully agree with your assessment that evil (in terms
of evil outcomes from sinful choices) is a consequence of God's granting
free will to humans (and angels, apparently, in the case of Satan). This
doesn't fully answer the question of the so-called "evil" of millions of
years of animal death and random genetic mutation. "God granting nature the
freedom to do what it wants" is a little difficult without attributing
freewill and consequent accountability to nature itself, but with some
qualification I think it could still apply. As I indicated earlier, I'm not
concerned about the theodicy problem of animal death, and don't agree that
it should even be considered "evil".
 
Jon Tandy
 

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Received on Tue Feb 19 19:26:30 2008