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If this conscious being of the devil is what evil is,

when he acts in order to bring, say, cancer on a human,

or to erupt a volcano,

or when he does something that under your view would count as natural,

is it in all cases he is deliberately doing this? So like

does he deliberately go out there and go that community in the third world? I

particularly don't like the third world so I'm going to have more disasters happen there. I would actually say that

naturalism on an intellectual level does a good job of solving the problem of natural evil. One of the reasons, not the only reason that I still feel more persuaded by the Christian view

is actually because it doesn't make sense of my emotional response.

When we call something a disaster, doesn't make sense of my emotional response.

When we call something a disaster,

or when we say we want to fight cancer

or battle mental health, we're actually saying

that there's something wrong with the world.

That response to natural evil can't be accounted for under naturalism.

Hello and welcome to the unbelievable podcast where we bring together Christians

atheists agnostics and everyone in between to discuss the topics that matter most to all of us. I'm your host, Vince Vitelli, and today we're going to be discussing what is sometimes referred to as natural evil, for example, earthquakes, famines, and cancers, even that appears to be baked into the fundamental

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