ABSTRACT
Holmes Rolston argues that our world is the best of all possible worlds and, in view of the fine-tuning of basic physical laws and parameters, perhaps the only possible world, this in spite of the inherent aspect of disvalue or evil that is caused by the struggle for life (or the struggle to survive) through competition and selection with suffering as a side-effect. This mechanism of biological evolution out of chaos seems a prerequisite for development (‘progress’) and a necessary adaptation to changing conditions within the physical evolution of the Earth. In other words, Rolston reasons that evil is inevitable because it is part of natural selection, which in turn is an inherent part of the evolution process.
