Problem of Evil: Irenaeus Criticisms

Question 1

What did John Stuart Mill look at?

Answer 1

The world and the rules it went by, concluding it was filled with cruelty, violence and suffering

Question 2

What does Mill indicate if the world was deliberately designed?

Answer 2

Something different from a loving creator God

Question 3

How does Mill see the world designed?

Answer 3

So that some species can only exist by destroying others

Question 4

What did Mill believe?

Answer 4

Based on observations that the world is more than just imperfect (in his view) Mill decided that it is gratuitously cruel

Question 5

What does Richard Dawkins say about the animal kingdom?

Answer 5

Even without human beings, the amount of suffering in the animal kingdom is vast.

Question 6

How does the problem of evil differ?

Answer 6

Many people would argue that the intellectual problem of evil is very different from the experience of coping with evil and suffering in your own life