The Ichneumon Wasp

Williams goes on to quote another Australian colleague, who shares the national gift for chucking a bonzer phrase, on the Ichneumonid wasps, whose designer, if there was one, 'must have been a sadistic bastard'.  Darwin, although he visited Australia as a young man, expressed the same sentiment in staider, less antipodean terms: 'I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.'  (From: The Greatest Show on Earth  by Richard Dawkins, page 370)

This criticism of the Christian faith, boils down to the question: why does God allow suffering?  In this and the next two posts I will attempt a theological response.  I will show evolution is a threat not to the Christian faith but to some interpretations of it.