The birth of a child is a wonderous and joyous occasion, but it doesn't always go to plan. Most severe cases of birth defects result in the death of the child, but sometimes the child is well-formed enough to survive the birthing process. Obvious abnormalities include conjoined twins, spina bifida, a cleft palate or being born with internal organs on the outside, Harlequin type ichthyosis, or any number of other congenital disorders, and can be caused by numerous environmental factors or because of a chromosomal mismatch or a genetically inherited trait. Some of these children die early, and some live long and uncomfortable lives. But not all congenital disorders are this extreme. Many people have congenital disorders that don't present themselves until much later in life, or may not even be a problem at all. There are minor mutations in us all from our conceptions, and as people grow older, other mutations may occur as our cells get worse at self replication. And in the extremes of mutation, cancers may occur.
The natural world around us has evolved in spite of us, not because of us, with the few exceptions of plants and animals we see a use for. We have forced evolution onto all the food plants and animals around us, changing them to better suit us. By selective breeding we have created our world, domesticated many plants and animals. In plants we have changed their colours and flavours, made them more adapted to the environments in which we would like to grow them. In animals we have made them larger, smaller, faster, more aggressive, less aggressive, fatter, leaner, stronger, more passive, all to suit the job we want them to do.
When someone uses the "look how beautiful it all is" defence when claiming God's existence, remind them of all the things that aren't so beautiful, remind them of all the things that go wrong, remind them that natural disasters kill good and pious people as well as heathens, that illness and poverty happens all over the world. If god created the butterfly, then he also created the rat, cockroach and the malaria mosquito that which is true, so if that is the case, he is also responsible for all the death and famine this world has faced and will face.
Damn what a nice way to have a loving god right?If a god does exist as a loving god/dog, then why would he want to order the genocide?(note: he ordered the mass murder of the Philistines remember?).
The natural world around us has evolved in spite of us, not because of us, with the few exceptions of plants and animals we see a use for. We have forced evolution onto all the food plants and animals around us, changing them to better suit us. By selective breeding we have created our world, domesticated many plants and animals. In plants we have changed their colours and flavours, made them more adapted to the environments in which we would like to grow them. In animals we have made them larger, smaller, faster, more aggressive, less aggressive, fatter, leaner, stronger, more passive, all to suit the job we want them to do.
When someone uses the "look how beautiful it all is" defence when claiming God's existence, remind them of all the things that aren't so beautiful, remind them of all the things that go wrong, remind them that natural disasters kill good and pious people as well as heathens, that illness and poverty happens all over the world. If god created the butterfly, then he also created the rat, cockroach and the malaria mosquito that which is true, so if that is the case, he is also responsible for all the death and famine this world has faced and will face.
Damn what a nice way to have a loving god right?If a god does exist as a loving god/dog, then why would he want to order the genocide?(note: he ordered the mass murder of the Philistines remember?).
