Michael Ruse, Ph.D., "The Problem of Suffering in Neo-Darwinian Biology and Christian Theology"
Dr. Michael Ruse from Florida State University presents "The Problem of Suffering in Neo-Darwinian Biology and Christian Theology." There is a common opinion among Darwinians that Darwinism not only makes Christianity redundant, but with the emphasis on a struggle for existence makes Christianity positively false. It is argued that a process that has at its heart an ongoing cruel method of elimination could not possibly be compatible with the good god supposed at the heart of Christianity. Ruse examines this claim, starting with the supposition that the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection is not merely true but by far the chief cause of evolutionary change. Free and open to the public.