Interdisciplinary Studies on the Human Condition
The Existence of God and the Problem of Evil I n the following essay I want to explore the multiple possibilities of describing what evil is and the possible existence of God. We have all been conditioned to follow certain habits. In other words, we have been taught what is good, what is bad and what is acceptable in a well- built society from an infantile age. Of course, we have received from our information providers (family members, teachers, other adults and colleagues) subjective ways of looking at the world, the vast majority of which enter into social norms, which respect rights, laws and the proper functioning of verbal and non-verbal language. Except for natural genetic factors, our minds are extremely prone to copying behavior when we are young, so we copy what we see and take without thinking independently all the religious, social and political values of those around us. Thus, in order to understand where evil comes from, if it is a human construction or if it is a negligence, or a lack of ethereal presence, we must define what evil is, where it is found and how subjective and relative its acts are in a society. Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries (2023) describes evil as “a force that causes bad things to happen; morally bad behavior” and as “a bad or harmful thing; the bad effect of something.” As we can see, it is not written just as something bad, it is a word with more meaning, which expresses something much more problematic that affects and very possibly hurts its target. To see if this evil is found only in human environment, we should look at animals. For a relatively long period of time, it has been considered that all animals react strictly on impulse and that they do not have a sense of
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