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The Problem of Evil
February 15, 2002

Many around the world labeled the events of September 11 as "evil." President Bush in his recent State of the Union speech described "an axis of evil." But what does the word mean? It is a subject of enduring theological debate, even of scientific argument. It drives to the heart of the question: What does it mean to be human?

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    Voices on the Radio

    Robert Pollack

    biologist and director of Columbia University's Center for the Study of Science and Religion

    Rami Nashashibi

    a Muslim social activist, founder of the Inner City Muslim Action Network

    Lisa Lampman

    formerly of Prison Fellowship, a crisis worker who responds to school shootings

    Leon Weinstein

    and daughter Natalie Gold, Holocaust survivors

    M. Scott Peck

    a psychiatrist, reading excerpts from his 1985 book People of the Lie