Naturally Optimized

Why We Can Be Grateful for “Natural Disasters”

With all the suffering, devastation, and death caused by hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, droughts, wildfires, and other natural disasters, many people question a Creator’s existence, and especially his power and goodness. After all, they argue, God could have created a realm for us that’s free from such nightmares. He could have created a universe with different laws of gravity, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism, and with different nuclear forces and physical laws.

Different Physics to Come

According to the Bible, a disaster-free, wholly good, perfectly wondrous creation is exactly what God has planned for humanity’s future. The apostle John writes in Revelation...