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CBS ended its newscast not with news but with moral philosophy. Cynthia Bowers was assigned to address the question of theodicy: if God is good and all powerful, how can we explain that He allows evil to exist? Bowers' test case was Mackintyre Garton, a nine-year-old from rural Missouri, who was struck dead with a brain aneurysm. When he was six years old, the boy drafted plans to build a church on the farm where he lived. His family, friends and volunteers executed his plans posthumously. "There is a reason for this. God just did not take a child for no reason at all. There is a reason for this and we are going to build this church," was how Stacy Garton, the bereaved mother, recalled her motivation. "If there was a God, He would not have taken your little boy like that," Bowers proposed. "You can be angry. You can be selfish. And you can ask Why? a hundred times…" was the mother's response. Theodicy still unresolved.
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