Editing Peter Singer (section)

==== Religion ====
[[File:Peter Singer MIT Veritas.jpg|thumb|Singer at a [[Veritas Forum]] event at [[MIT]] in 2009]]
Singer was a speaker at the 2012 [[Global Atheist Convention]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Singer |url=http://www.atheistconvention.org.au/peter-singer/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131201121355/http://www.atheistconvention.org.au/peter-singer/ |archive-date=1 December 2013 |access-date=28 October 2018 |publisher=[[Atheist Foundation of Australia]]}}</ref> He has debated with Christians including [[John Lennox]] and [[Dinesh D'Souza]].<ref>{{cite web |date=6 September 2011 |title=Singer vs Lennox: Is There a God? |url=https://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2011/09/06/3310342.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127094518/https://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2011/09/06/3310342.htm |archive-date=27 November 2016 |access-date=28 October 2018 |publisher=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Isia |last=Jaasiewicz |url=https://paw.princeton.edu/article/singer-dsouza-face-over-religion-and-morality |title=Singer, D'Souza face off over religion and morality |work=Princeton Alumni Weekly |date=28 January 2009 |access-date=28 October 2018 |archive-date=22 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622185451/https://paw.princeton.edu/article/singer-dsouza-face-over-religion-and-morality |url-status=live}}</ref> Singer has pointed to the [[problem of evil]] as an objection against the Christian conception of God. He stated: "The evidence of our own eyes makes it more plausible to believe that the world was not created by any god at all. If, however, we insist on believing in divine creation, we are forced to admit that the god who made the world cannot be all-powerful and all good. He must be either evil or a bungler."<ref name="Peter Singer-2008">{{cite web |url=https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-god-of-suffering |title=The God of Suffering? |author=Peter Singer |work=Project Syndicate |date=8 May 2008 |access-date=28 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707083330/http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-god-of-suffering |archive-date=7 July 2015}}</ref> In keeping with his considerations of nonhuman animals, Singer also takes issue with the [[original sin]] reply to the problem of evil, saying that, "animals also suffer from floods, fires, and droughts, and, since they are not descended from Adam and Eve, they cannot have inherited original sin."<ref name="Peter Singer-2008" />