The value of animal predation has been a religious concern for millennia and remains so today. Predators are a paradigmatic example of natural evil that calls God’s existence into question. This chapter gives an overview of the role predation plays in the nonhuman animal kingdom and argues that it should not be viewed as intrinsically evil. First, I briefly survey the history of Western religion’s engagement with the issue of predation. Then I give an account of welfare biology, a proposed new branch of science aimed at eradicating predation. Classical humane ethics, however, does not advocate for predator eradication even though it shares the moral framework of welfare biology. Holistic environmental ethics differs from both by relativizing the value of individual animals within the context of species and ecosystems, both of which include predation as a positive process. Contemporary philosophy of religion has more in common with welfare biology because it takes the apparent non-eradication of predation as evidence for God’s non-existence. I argue, by contrast, that there are strong religious reasons for seeing predation positively, in the manner of holistic environmental ethics.