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If God exists, why natural evil?

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee
dc.contributor.authorKuhn, Robert Lawrence, interviewer
dc.contributor.authorThe Kuhn Foundation; Getzels Gordon Productions, producer
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-05T13:52:05Z
dc.date.available2020-08-05T13:52:05Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionEpisode of Closer to the Truth: Cosmos. Consiousness. God, aired in 2020.
dc.descriptionTo request a transcript, please contact library_digitaladmin@mail.colostate.edu or call (970) 491-1844.
dc.description.abstractHolmes Rolston interviewed by Robert Kuhn on Closer to Truth. Filmed at Helsingor, Denmark, 2011. If God exists, why is there so much suffering in the natural world? Because creativity is impossible without challenge that includes forms of suffering. You cannot achieve the rich genesis in evolutionary natural history without such challenge. Eyes, ears, teeth, legs, muscles evolve to search for food, to seek prey and to avoid predators. The struggle for adapted fit is struggling through to something higher. Biblical faith similarly finds creative suffering. The name Israel means "he who struggles with God," and God struggles to redeem Israel. Jesus lives in creative struggle to become God incarnate, and dies to redeem from sin. The creation is cruciform in that it necessarily requires life and death struggle. Light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not overcome it. The way of nature is the way of the cross.
dc.format.extent6 minutes 28 seconds
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/211041
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.subjectnature
dc.subjectevil
dc.subjectsuffering
dc.subjectcreativity
dc.subjectadapted fit
dc.subjectpredators
dc.subjectprey
dc.subjectcruciform creation
dc.subjectway of nature
dc.subjectway of the cross
dc.subjectGod
dc.titleIf God exists, why natural evil?
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