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The scandal of natural, or “prepersonal”, evil is a case in point.

How could a God who called his creation “good” have included physical evil?

New theories in science were popularized as scandalous. But the scandal is obviated by the notion that God creates spontaneous orders; something that we humans also do, but can never take credit for, because we are embedded within them.

There is an analogy between moral and natural evil. They both share the same nested categorical structure.

There is also a collision between moral and natural evil. They intersect. They intersect precisely at “the scandal of natural evil”.

In nature, bad events happen.

In morals, we are limited and selfish. We cause bad things to happen.]