RE: Natural Evil

I think the concept of "natural evil" makes no sense if the word
"natural" means the physical aspect of reality---such things cannot be
evil. If nature means the whole of reality, then to whom do we ascribe
the evil?

Moorad

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Keith Miller
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:38 PM
To: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: Natural Evil

>
> "Natural evil" is a category name given for things like earthquakes
> and
> parasites and disease which hurt, destroy, and kill, but which are not
> caused by anyone's specific immoral decision. Is all "natural evil" a
> result of the Fall and the Curse?

For those interested, I wrote a short essay on this for the ASA journal
entitled "Natural Hazards: Challenges to the Creation Mandate of
Dominion." I didn't check to see if this article is available on the
ASA website, but I think that it is. It addresses some of the issues
of "natural evil."

Keith
Received on Fri Oct 1 09:12:49 2004