Tag: natural evil

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 13, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Canceled Science, determinism, droughts, earthquakes, Eric Hedin, faith and science, free will, human evil, Hurricanes, ID the Future, intelligent design, natural evil, podcast, rational thought, Robert Sapolsky, Second Law of Thermodynamics, sickness, suffering, tragedies}

Eric Hedin on Suffering in a Designed World

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 13, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Says Dr. Hedin, "We live in a world where the second law of thermodynamics applies not just to stars and mountainsides but also to our own bodies.” Read More ›

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
June 24, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atoms, C.S. Lewis, cancer, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinists, David Klinghoffer, evil, evolution, Ferrari, Frans de Waal, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Witt, laws of nature, molecules, morality, natural evil, Nicholas Wade, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, trade-offs}

To Address the Problem of Evil, Intelligent Design Is Better Situated than Darwinism

_{Tova Levengood
June 24, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The questions I see coming into the Center for Science and Culture from our readers, friends, and supporters are thought-provoking. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, creation, creationism, death, designer, evolution, humans, intelligent design, natural evil, pain, Panda's Thumb, peer-reviewed literature, sickness, special creation, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, theology, waste, William A. Dembski}

Does a Suboptimal Panda’s Thumb Fit Better with Evolution than with Intelligent Design?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 8, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

Just how much does evolution expect suboptimal structures? And just how much does intelligent design expect optimal ones? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 12, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", animals, bananas, barbarism, chickens, Eric Hedin, evil, evolutionary theory, fish, Gaza, goodness, Hamas, human evil, humanity, intelligent design, natural evil, Nazis, pogrom, Scripture, social media, The Guardian, theism, universities}

Thoughts of Goodness in an Evolutionary World

_{David Klinghoffer
October 12, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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What you’d expect is humans more or less on the level of animals — not greatly exceeding them in evil, or greatly transcending them in good. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
October 11, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, Bible, cars, death, disease, droughts, evil, flat tire, floods, gravity, human evil, humanity, hurricane, injury, intelligent design, microbes, natural causes, natural disasters, natural evil, naturalism, pain, poverty, Scripture, Second Law of Thermodynamics, sickness, suffering, theism, theodicy, tinkering, tornadoes, universe, water, weather}

Thoughts of Evil in a Designed World

_{Eric Hedin
October 11, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Nowhere in the animal world do we see evil that comes anywhere close to comparing with the unfortunate depths of evil displayed by humanity. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 1, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, bestsellers, Big Bang, biological information, Brian Keating, Dennis Prager, Discovery Institute, natural evil, nature, personal God, proof, radio, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, theists, U.C. San Diego, universe}

Prager, Meyer: Evidence for a Personal God Behind the Cosmos

_{David Klinghoffer
April 1, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Why does the universe have to be on so grand a scale of space and time? Why does God require such an imposing canvas? Read More ›

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Date
January 17, 2018

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, bad design, Biola University, Cornelius Hunter, Darwinian theory, events, Michael Keas, natural evil, Southern California, theology}

“Bad Design” or “Natural Evil”? Upcoming Event at Biola University, January 26-27

_{Science & Culture
January 17, 2018

Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

1}

In addition to questions of science, debates over Darwinian theory raise a number of thorny philosophical, ethical, and theological issues. Read More ›

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Date
April 15, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, evolution, Flight: The Genius of Birds, hummingbird, intelligent design, natural evil, nature}

Bad Bugs, Good Designs — The Case of the Mosquito

_{Science & Culture
April 15, 2017

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Medicine

8}

Some organisms cause harm, but are well designed nonetheless. That’s all intelligent design can say. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
September 22, 2016

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, __nedited, ad hominem, cancer, centrosomes, law of non-contradiction, mutations, natural evil, oncology, Peaceful Science, rhetoric, theistic evolution}

From Joshua Swamidass, a Gratuitous Drive-by Hit

_{Jonathan Wells
September 22, 2016

Faith & Science, Medicine

2}

Swamidass and BioLogos profess a commitment to "gracious dialogue." Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 23, 2016

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __tedited, accountability, atheism, begging the question, causality, circular causality, cosmic beginning, deism, empiricism, God Hypothesis, intelligent agency, motivated reasoning, natural evil, rationality, scientific debate, teleology, theism}

The Rowe-Grayling Debate

_{Michael Egnor
June 23, 2016

Faith & Science, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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Grayling's problem is not merely his frank incompetence in open debate (you can understand his penchant for censorship). Read More ›