(June 3, 2016 at 7:00 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Well it may not be deep but it's defeneatly smarter then yours. Why would an omnipotent and loving God who directed evolution would lead it into so many dead ends?
If his purpose in creating those creatures was to evolve into a higher creature then maybe it wouldn't be smart, but these creatures had a reason to live. Millions of species that were not dead ends also went extinct.
Quote:The cruelty of natural selection, which involves endless wastage and pain, also demands explanation. Wouldn’t a loving and all-powerful God simply have produced all existing species, as described in Genesis?
And, of course, if God gets the credit for the adaptive mutations that led to humans, then what about mutations that cause cancers, genetic diseases, and deformed children? If mutation were a process designed by God, there’s no reason why the vast majority of mutations should be harmful—though that’s exactly what you’d expect if the process were purely a naturalistic one involving random errors.
If suffering is bad then it might mean that God is not loving. Jesus suffered and it was good.
