Animals in the Garden of Eden -- Human, animals, and death revisited -- Animal suffering: philosophical responses -- Animal suffering: theological responses -- The best of all possible worlds? -- The wheat and the tares: re-imagining nature -- A picture held us captive -- New dynamics in evolutionary theory -- Dualism or tares in evolutionary history? -- The fall and beyond -- Concluding animal ethics
Summary
Nicola Hoggard Creegan offers a compelling examination of the problem of evil in the context of animal suffering, disease, and extinction and the violence of the evolutionary process
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-200) and index
