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For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

20 years ago, on December the 26th, 2004, a tsunami that arose in the Indian Ocean

devastated areas of Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, even as far as the coast of Africa and Madagascar.

The most destructive wave ever recorded left dozens of communities devastated and over 200,000

people dead. And a new four-part national geographic series entitled Tsunami Race Against Time purports

to tell the definitive account.

Now, when people commit acts of evil, there's someone to blame.

But who's to blame when the villains away for a weather event or a fire that was sparked by lightning?

Insurance companies, of course, refer to national disasters as acts of God.

But this history of blame can be found throughout most of human history.

And whether it's Voltaire complaining about an absent god in the wake of the Libson

earthquake nearly 300 years ago, or pagan seeking to appease the gods to alleviate drought,

or Job's accusations in the Old Testament, humans have always struggled to see the goodness

of creation and the creator when nature turns against us.

In the weeks after the disaster back in 2004, Chuck Colson pondered this very difficult question

of why when it comes to natural disasters. Here's Chuck Colson.

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