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Evil in the Fine‐Tuned World
Author(s) -
Azadegan Ebrahim
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the heythrop journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.127
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1468-2265
pISSN - 0018-1196
DOI - 10.1111/heyj.13314
Subject(s) - anthropic principle , theism , intuition , natural (archaeology) , epistemology , philosophy , life world , environmental ethics , telos , human life , humanity , history , theology , archaeology
If the world has been fine‐tuned for human life, why does that life encompass such calamity and suffering? It seems that in so far as we are impressed by the fine‐tuning intuition that the world has been designed for human life, the problem of natural evil gains in urgency. I propose that observing the world from the anthropic point of view is the source of theists’ challenge which arises from this tension. Dealing with this challenge I suggest perhaps the world is fine‐tuned for God’s telos , which may be His manifestation of love through sentient beings’ pains and emotions.