We all know that something has gone terribly wrong with the world. We call it “the problem of evil.” But that can only be so if there is a right way for things to be. And that could only be so if the world was designed for a Purpose that for some reason is not being achieved. But it’s hard to make sense of “Purpose” and “things gone wrong” if we are driven solely by “a purposeless and natural process that did not have [us] in mind,” if there is “no design, no purpose, no evil and no good,” and if life in the final analysis is nothing more than “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
