Animal Suffering and the Darwinian Problem of Evil

by John R Schneider

John R. Schneider explores the problem that animal suffering, caused by the inherent nature of Darwinian evolution, poses to belief in theism. Examining the aesthetic aspects of this moral problem, Schneider focuses on the three prevailing approaches to it: that the Fall caused animal suffering in nature (Lapsarian Theodicy), that Darwinian evolution was the only way for God to create an acceptably good and valuable world (Only-Way Theodicy), and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108487602
• ISBN13: 9781108487603
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"