(April 26, 2013 at 4:24 am)Rayaan Wrote:(April 25, 2013 at 11:23 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: I heard a stunning amount of shit about how horrible the world is, and how much better the hereafter will be.
Many atheists also say that the world is horrible, perhaps even more than some theists do, especially when they bring up the "problem of evil" and then mention all the bad things in this world and the ugly things in this world and about natural disasters and so on. And sometimes they also like to point out "flaws" in design, like how the moon is blasted with impact craters, for example, in order to disprove the idea of intelligent design. You know what I'm talking about, right?
Beautiful pictures, though.
The universe is only horrible if it is the way it is because some sentient being deliberately designed the hazards and horrors it contains. It would have to be intentionally set up to be a deadly obstacle course for the sole purpose of making progress more difficult and costly.
But, it is not a design, and therefore, it isn't horrible. It its full of deadly dangers, but that's nobody's fault. It is what it is. Tornados, meteoroids and gamma ray bursters are awesome and terrifying, but they are neither evil nor punitive.
