atheism and children

[cocunningham]

Only if God deems it such.

But he doesn't do much deeming these days. I suspect "lovemaking" was deemed sacred in the bible to contrast drunken or thoughtless sex, which I can sort of see an argument for. The bible doesn't have much to say about IVF, does it? And it will continue to be silent as humans progress through time inventing new ways to better our lives, and what were left with are only a few things mentioned in the bible being "sacred", while new perfectly valid forms of reproduction and the like are being deemed un-sacred, not specifically, but by omission, which means from here to our collective demise, when something new crops up and God is silent, it is we humans who are left to do the deeming, such as "IVF is not sacred".

Now, lets jump back to my world, where the bible was written by man. I get the feeling that the authors that spoke as God would have been perfectly fine with IVF, but since they had no clue about it, of course they wouldn't mention it. This is besides the point, but if the bible was God's inerrant word, you'd think he would have seen IVF coming and actually given us some rules on it. As it is, we're left to do the guessing.

If the bible mentioned future medical developments I'd be a lot more likely to believe. But this is the same God who put dinosaur bones here to keep us on our toes so I guess he didn't want to make it too easy on us.