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Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering

By Michael Murray

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0199237271, 9780199237272, 9780191553271
LCC
BJ1401 .M83 2008
Open Library ID
OL16818554M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
864 kB (884410 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
224\220
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

While the problem of evil remains a perennial challenge to theistic belief, little attention has been paid to the special problem of animal pain and suffering. This absence is especially conspicuous in our Darwinian era when theists are forced to confront the fact that animal pain and suffering has gone on for at least tens of millions of years, through billions of animal generations. Evil of this sort might not be especially problematic if the standard of explanations for evil employed by theists could be applied in this instance as well. But there is the central problem: all or most of the explanations for evil cited by theists seem impotent to explain the reality of animal pain and suffering through evolutionary history. Nature Red in Tooth and Claw addresses the evil of animal pain and suffering directly, scrutinizing explanations that have been offered for such evil.

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