Thinking About Death and Suffering (CT Scan, Episode 56)

“A loving God would not create a world with death, suffering and disaster.” This is a top objection to Christianity, which even evolutionary textbooks raise, asking why a competent Creator would design a process so cruel as natural selection. Let’s respond to this important question using Check #1 of Critical Thinking, Check Scripture.

DIGGING DEEPER
Articles:
• Suffering topic: https://answersingenesis.org/suffering/
• Mitchel, T. (2008). Why Does God’s Creation Include Death and Suffering? https://answersingenesis.org/suffering/why-does-gods-creation-include-death-and-suffering/ (Chapter from The New Answers Book 1, available to read online for free here: https://answersingenesis.org/answers/books/new-answers-book-1/)
• Theistic evolution topic: https://answersingenesis.org/theistic-evolution/

Book: Ham, K. (2007). How Could a Loving God? New Leaf Publishing Group. (Available to read online for free here: https://answersingenesis.org/answers/books/how-could-loving-god/)

Free online video: A God of Suffering? (Dr. Tommy Mitchel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg3CQSyKpno

DVD: Ken Ham’s Foundations: Death, the Enemy https://answersingenesis.ca/store/product/foundations-death-enemy/

CITED REFERENCES
Futuyama (2013). Evolutionary science, creationism, and society. In Evolution (3rd ed., pp. 640). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates

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