最后这位年轻人问教授：“教授，那邪恶存在吗？”

Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"

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终于，这个年轻人谈到了正题。“教授，邪恶存在吗？”

Finally the young man asked the professor. "Sir, does evil exist?"

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邪恶存在吗？

Does evil exist?

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Evil is a metaphysical reality. It is built into the structure of the universe. That's the way the universe was made.

邪恶是一种超自然的存在，它是宇宙构造的组成部分,宇宙就是这样的。

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To say that there is evil in any institution is only to say that it is a human institution."

如果说邪恶一定存在于某一种制度中,那一定是在人们心中

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So, one of the things I've tried to claim in describing Genesis 1 is That in this story evil is represented not as a physical reality.

我在描述《创世纪》第一章中试图做的是,在这个故事中，邪恶并不是一种实体的存在。

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