Since Darwin, Stephen J. Gould wrote, “Biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God.”9 Humans are merely an accident of natural history, the result of the mindless process of evolution. We are the result of a world that creates itself. This is our origin. Within a naturalistic worldview, our problems with evil and suffering could not stem from a rebellion against God because God does not exist and therefore plays no role in the universe. Rather, evil is a natural consequence