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  2. Natural evil - Wikipedia

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    The question of whether natural disasters such as hurricanes might be natural or moral evil is complicated by new understandings of the effects, such as global warming, of our collective actions on events that were previously considered to be out of our control. Nonetheless, even before the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (which many ...

  3. Evolutionary theodicy - Wikipedia

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    In response to the problem of evil concerning natural evil and animal suffering, Christopher Southgate, a trained research biochemist and Professor of Christian Theodicy at the University of Exeter, has developed a “compound evolutionary theodicy.” [28]: 711 Robert John Russell summarizes it as beginning with an assertion of the goodness of ...

  4. Problem of evil - Wikipedia

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    A third challenge to the free will defence is natural evil, evil which is the result of natural causes (e.g. a child suffering from a disease, mass casualties from a volcano). [129]

  5. Theodicy - Wikipedia

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    [11]: 12 [10] Hinduism defines evil in terms of its effect, saying "the evils that afflict people (and indeed animals) in the present life are the effects of wrongs committed in a previous life." [ 10 ] : 34 Some contemporary philosophers argue a focus on the effects of evil is inadequate as a definition since evil can observe without actively ...

  6. Predation problem - Wikipedia

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    Predation has historically been viewed as a natural evil within the context of the problem of evil and has been considered a moral concern for Christians who have engaged with theodicy. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Natural evils have been sometimes thought of as something that humans should work towards alleviating, or as part of a greater good which ...

  7. Evil - Wikipedia

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    In many Abrahamic religions, demons are considered to be evil beings and are contrasted with angels, who are their good contemporaries.. Evil, by one definition, is being bad and acting out morally incorrect behavior; or it is the condition of causing unnecessary pain and suffering, thus containing a net negative on the world.

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  9. Absence of good - Wikipedia

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    The absence of good (Latin: privatio boni), also known as the privation theory of evil, [1] is a theological and philosophical doctrine that evil, unlike good, is insubstantial, so that thinking of it as an entity is misleading. Instead, evil is rather the absence, or lack ("privation"), of good.