lucaspa
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Yes, your god, but not, I submit, God.
What you have done is take God and made Him into an ogre with special creation.
Thinking God designed all creatures individually and poofed them into existence works well as long as you don't really look at creation. When you do start looking at nature you see some very nasty, cruel designs. You make God directly responsible for them. I claim God is not responsible.
Let's take just two examples. The first is the digger wasp. Wonderful design that allows the female to track grasshoppers in flight and control her own flight so that she can intercept them in mid-flight and the incredible design that allows her to insert her egg into the grasshopper in the short time of that flight. Wonderful design, right?
Yet what happens to that egg? It hatches inside the grasshopper and proceeds to eat it alive from the inside out. Exactly like the movie Alien. Now, your god is the cruel god that designed the digger wasp and let this happen to grasshoppers down the centuries.
The second example is the rabbit. Cute, furry, cuddly, and kept as pets by humans. Hind legs to jump and escape predators and ears to hear the predators coming. The rabbit eats grass and other plants, whose major component is cellulose. Yet the rabbit doesn't have an enzyme to break down cellulose to digestable components. Instead, your god has seen fit to put the cellulase enzyme in bacteria living in the large intesting of the rabbit. Not in the rabbit's pancreas, but in a parasite. So the bacteria breaks down the cellulose in the large intestine, where the rabbit can't absorb the products. Both the nutrients and the bacteria are excreted in the feces. So what happens? The rabbit is forced to eat its own feces to recover the nutrients and the bacteria. (BTW, another great design in the bacteria to allow it to survive the trip to thru the stomach and small intestine back to the large intestine.) Nice god you have made, Crusader. A god that forces rabbits to eat their own feces in order to survive and not starve. A god made in your image, perhaps?
A major reason that Christians abandoned creationism and accepted evolution is that creationism makes God be sadistic, stupid, and suffering from Alzheimer's. Since Christians realized God wasn't like that, then it was obvious that creationism was wrong. Christians realized quickly that having natural selection be the secondary cause by which God creates got God off a really bad hook that the 6-day creationists had put Him on. Now God didn't directly make the bad designs, natural selection did. Instead, God made natural selection and used it as a way to create the diversity of life on the planet.
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