Natural Evil: how can a good and powerful God allow natural disasters and disease?

Episode 6 October 03, 2025 01:13:15
Natural Evil: how can a good and powerful God allow natural disasters and disease?
Questioning Belief
Natural Evil: how can a good and powerful God allow natural disasters and disease?

Oct 03 2025 | 01:13:15

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Show Notes

Sharon Dirckx, PhD., trained neuroscientist, prolific speaker, and author of award-winning books on the problem of evil and human consciousness, helps us to tackle the problem of natural evil. There are evils in our world which can't be directly attributed to human moral error: natural disasters, parasites, and disease attack seemingly indiscriminately, causing rampant death and destruction of innocent people. How can the Judeo-Christian God be simultaneously good, loving, and all-powerful and yet allow disaster and disease to occur on his watch? Did God create these evils, does he passively permit them, or is he powerless to stop them? 

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