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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Insect Extinction and Natural Evil

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Craig reviews an alarming report on insect extinction and draws some theological implications.

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0:00.0

All my friends are insects.

0:02.0

No me molesquito.

0:05.0

No me molesquito.

0:07.0

No molesquito.

0:08.0

No maimoles

0:07.0

the mosquito.

0:11.0

Why don't you go?

0:13.0

No m m moles the mosquito

0:17.0

Let me eat my burrito

0:20.0

creepy crawly bugs, Dr Craig, you know, some people wonder why God created mosquitoes.

0:28.0

You ever wonder that one of that? Oh, you bet I have! I hate mosquitoes!

0:32.0

And it's like, why did God make wasps and I've often

0:37.1

thinking why in the world did God make a scorpion nothing makes me jump

0:41.4

higher than a scorpion in East Texas. If I see a scorpion I'll jump 10 feet.

0:47.0

This is a very alarming article that we're looking at.

0:50.0

Bill, and we're going to make some inferences as well

0:53.0

theologically, but plummeting insect numbers

0:57.4

threaten the collapse of nature.

1:00.0

Insects could vanish within a century at the current rate of decline says a global review.

1:07.3

This is from Damien Carrington, the Environment Editor on Sunday February 10th, 2019 when he wrote this.

1:14.8

And he begins, Bill, by saying,

1:16.7

the rate of insect extinction is eight times faster

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