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    What appears to be natural evil is a failure of perspecti... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Natural evil does not actually exist, because we lack the proper perspective to perceive the overall beauty of the natural system.

    What appears to be natural evil is a failure of perspective, not a genuine feature of reality.

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    There are different kinds of responses to the problem of natural evil in theological traditions: Aesthetic responses say that we don’t presently have the right perspective to see the overall beauty of the natural system, and thus that there really is no natural evil; Soul-making responses say that this present vale of natural evil is justified because it gives us the chance to become virtuous; Skeptical theistic responses say that given our limited faculties we cannot reasonably expect to unders

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