Yeah, it usually comes with the claim that the "perfect creator [God] doesn't have to make the perfect creation."
Imagine if you heard about the perfect student, and you went to his school only to discover that a lot of his work is below mediocre. He certainly would not be considered an excellent student, let alone a perfect one. And yet his teachers are insisting that you can not question why the perfect student is making bad work, that the student doesn't owe you an explanation, and that you are committing a fallacy from personal incredulity.
Or imagine that you hear about the perfect architect, but when you look at the houses he made you see that he made the most basic mistakes, like he didn't make a living room, or didn't make a staircase to the upper floor, or the whole house falls apart when you open the door. This certainly would not be a good architect or a perfect one, and yet the proponents of him being the perfect architect say that he doesn't owe you an explanation.
Imagine if you heard about the perfect student, and you went to his school only to discover that a lot of his work is below mediocre. He certainly would not be considered an excellent student, let alone a perfect one. And yet his teachers are insisting that you can not question why the perfect student is making bad work, that the student doesn't owe you an explanation, and that you are committing a fallacy from personal incredulity.
Or imagine that you hear about the perfect architect, but when you look at the houses he made you see that he made the most basic mistakes, like he didn't make a living room, or didn't make a staircase to the upper floor, or the whole house falls apart when you open the door. This certainly would not be a good architect or a perfect one, and yet the proponents of him being the perfect architect say that he doesn't owe you an explanation.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
