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The problem of evil: unseen animal suffering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2019

DANIEL MOLTO
DANIEL MOLTO*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 NRH, UK
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e-mail: d.molto@sussex.ac.uk
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Abstract

On my view, every bone, every fossil, and every putrid whiff of carrion that one smells on a hike in the country is just as good evidence for a divine intervention as it is for the suffering of an animal.

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Religious Studies , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , June 2021 , pp. 353 - 371
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