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    A God who designed a world with such natural evils built ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The cause of all evil in the world is man, not God

    A God who designed a world with such natural evils built into its structure bears causal responsibility for those evils.

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    • 1.Designers bear causal responsibility for foreseeable consequences of their designs, whether intended or structurally inherent.
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    • 2.Natural evils (disease, predation, earthquakes) are features of creation's structure, not accidents or external impositions.
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    • 3.An omniscient designer would foresee all suffering their design produces, making ignorance an unavailable excuse.
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    • 1.Causal responsibility requires either intention or culpable negligence; structural features enabling suffering ≠ causing specific instances.
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    • 2.Natural laws enabling both flourishing and suffering may be metaphysically necessary for free will, moral agency, and genuine goods.
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    • 3.Responsibility attributions presume the agent could have done otherwise; God's necessity may exempt it from standard responsibility conditions.
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