Hi Kelly,
Welcome to EvC.
KellyWilson writes:
The issue I raise runs slightly deeper than the typically heard articulations of the problem of evil, and the main reason is because of the existence of what appears to be waste and death, long prior to the emergence of humans...
Maybe your problem is that you think mankind was created a few thousand years ago, when mankind was created in the beginning, prior to any creature on earth according to Genesis 2:7.
I happen to be a literalist that does not believe in evolution as preached here at EvC. So I won't be able to add any more to the thread.
God Bless,
"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."
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