(March 7, 2016 at 5:03 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(March 7, 2016 at 4:53 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: God could have prevented rape by designing humans to mate seasonally and according to pheromonal triggers as many organisms do, while lacking a sex drive outside of these times.
Here I am, one little human person out of an entire universe, occupying it for a tiny fraction of time, and I think I know better than God? The being who created everything and everyone? The being who can see the whole universe all at once, past, present, and future? Does it make any logical sense to think I know better than He does?
I don't think it's necessarily illogical. As you state yourself, he created everything, everyone, can see all times, and is said to know everything. This says to me that he should have been able to create a universe precisely like we have now, but without these calamities, natural and otherwise, in a way that does not abrogate free will. I gave the earlier example that you could consider it an abrogation of my free will because I was not designed with wings. There are limitations of all kinds, physical limitations, that prevent me from existing underwater or in the vacuum of space. I can't phase through solid material. It's not just physical, but mental: I can't telepathically communicate with other people. I can't understand what my cat is thinking. I want to do all of these things, and I am being prohibited from exercising my free will because of my body not including any of these capabilities.
Now, if I can live without resenting these limitations of my will, I think I could live with limitations preventing rape and murder.
The problem that I have is, since God did not create a world in which free will could exist without sin, there are only two logical reasons why. Either he chose not to create such a world, or it was beyond his abilities.