Summary of text [comment] pages 43 and 44<\/p>\n
Is evil necessary?<\/p>\n
[Look at natural selection.\u00a0 Natural selection occurs when one natural subject puts another natural subject to the test \u2013 occasionally pushing it to the limit \u2013 so to speak.\u00a0 The nested form containing both natural metaphysical and physical evil is built into the system.\u00a0 Disorder and failure accompany every spontaneous order and success.<\/p>\n
Consider the way that we use the terms \u201cenvironment\u201d and \u201cecology\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cEnvironment\u201d associates to \u201cphysical evil\u201d, the source of the test, the situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cEcology\u201d associates to \u201cmetaphysical evil\u201d. For example, the consequences of an environmental challenge is seen in the survival of populations. Certain adaptations will reduce the cost of that particular challenge.\u00a0 But the price is always being exacted.<\/p>\n
And yet, we regard both the \u201cenvironment\u201d and the \u201cecology\u201d as good, perhaps sacred, spontaneous orders.<\/p>\n
Given this, is it any wonder that Schoonenberg turned to Pierre Tielhard de Chardin for an answer to the apparently insoluble problem of natural evil?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summary of text [comment] pages 43 and 44 Is evil necessary? [Look at natural selection.\u00a0 Natural selection occurs when one natural subject puts another natural subject to the test \u2013 occasionally pushing it to the limit \u2013 so to speak.\u00a0 The nested form containing both natural metaphysical and physical evil is built into the system.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n