While the problem of evil remains a perennial challenge to theistic belief, little attention has been paid to the special problem of animal pain and suffering. This absence is especially conspicuous in our Darwinian era when theists are forced to confront the fact that animal pain and suffering has gone on for at least tens of millions of years, through billions of animal generations. Evil of this sort might not be especially problematic if the standard of
explanations for evil employed by theists could be applied in this instance as well. But there is the central problem: all or most of the explanations for evil cited by theists seem impotent to explain the reality of animal pain and suffering through evolutionary history. Nature Red in Tooth and Claw
addresses the evil of animal pain and suffering directly, scrutinizing explanations that have been offered for such evil.
- ISBN10 6611852794
- ISBN13 9786611852795
- Publish Date 19 June 2008 (first published 1 January 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 June 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 224
- Language English