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Why penguins, in particular?
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What BM said.
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“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?”
The Riddle of Epicurus, which is rated 1 star on thinkexist.com. Bitter
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Two completely different responses:
1. God created evil and he did it for a reason. That's the wonderful thing about ineffability - we'll never understand why.
2. What is evil? If you mean the devil tempting people against god's wishes, that's clearly a sign of not-omnipotentness. But I come from a Jewish background where such a concept is unthinkable. If you say that natural disasters and parasitic fungi are evil, then I disagree with you. They're not morally anything. They're just unpleasant. And there's the fundamental problem with people who say that 'God is Love' - god clearly isn't love. God isn't
nice. God isn't really even good by human standards. What god is, is
right. By definition, anything he does is the right thing to do, even if we humans may not like it.