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Why Animal Suffering is still a Serious Problem for Christians: A Reply to Hart

I recently posted a video critiquing capturingchristianity’s take on the problem of animal suffering. In that video, I argued that Cameron’s responses are impotent in response to a properly stated abductive argument from evil. Recently, Cameron let me know on facebook that one of his writers (Seth Hart) responded to my video on Cameron’s website . Imagine my puzzlement, then, when I opened up the article and found that nothing I said in the video was cited in the article. A few of the topics I brought up in the video were referenced, but I honestly had a hard time reconstructing exactly how the article was meant to be a response to my specific points. It seemed more like the author’s personal contribution to the general debate, which largely brought up new points that neither I nor Cameron nor Alex mentioned in any of our videos. Nevertheless, since this is billed as a ‘response’ we might as well see how it fares as one. The first point I responded to in the video was Cameron’s asse...