Contents:

I. Evolution and evil: Framing the problem

The Evolution of evil/ Ted Peters

Creation as "very good" and "groaning in travail": an exploration in evolutionary theodicy/ Christopher Southgate

Darwinism and Christianity: does evil spoil a beautiful friendship/ Michael Ruse

Nature and nurture: the irony of the sociobiology debate/ James W. Haag

The Groaning of Creation: does God suffer with all life/ Robert John Russell

II. Evolution and God: Theodicy

Evolutionary evil and Dawkins' black box: changing the parameters of the problem/ Joshua Moritz

Evolution and the suffering of sentient life: theodicy after Darwin/ John F. Haught

How evil entered the world: an exploration through deep time/ Patricia A. Williams

Making the task of theodocy impossible: Intelligent design and the problem of evil/ William A. Dembski

Evolution, suffering, and the God of hope in Roman Catholic thought after Darwin/ Peter M.J. Hess

III. Evolution and the human: Anthropodicy

"What a piece of work is man!: The impact of modern biology on philosophical and theological anthropology/ Martinez J. Hewlett

Biology, Rhetoric, Genocide: Assembling concepts for theological inquiry/ Gaymon Bennett

Eugenics and the question of religion/ Nathan Hallanger

Sins of commission, sins of omission: Girard Ricoeur, and the Armenian Genocide

Violence, Scapegoating and the cross/ Rene Girard

Cross, Evolution, and theodicy: telling it like its is/ George Murphy