RE: When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?
December 24, 2015 at 4:15 am
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2015 at 4:16 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(December 24, 2015 at 3:54 am)robvalue Wrote: Another note about "intelligent design":
It seems to be treated like God has to solve the issues of how we can eat, how we can breathe, etc. But these are problems he made himself. There was no requirement that we had to eat and breathe or else we died.
I've said before, people seem to flip-flop between god setting the rules and God having turned up one day and having to deal with things as they are.
If you were designing life, with unlimited power and resources, would you put in these death clauses that you then have to solve in weird ways? Or just not have death at all and make exactly the number of whatever things that you want?
Things didn't have to remotely be as they are. Would you design it so that the body has to excrete waste after eating? Why would you do that? Eating could just have been a fun activity, and you didn't die if you don't eat.
It's cock and balls all the way. The only reasons for things to be the way they are are God not being able to do any better, God not wanting to do any better, or God not being involved at all.
Well, I have it on good authority that the Angels have to go to the supermarket in heaven every so often to buy toilet paper, because God just couldn't figure out a way to keep them alive unless they took regular constitutionals.
It's in the rulebook, Section 3, paragraph 9, I think -- all living beings must on occasion shit.
