In a previous thread, I pointed out that, if we are intelligently designed, then God did a very bad job of designing us; given that human bodies are largely imperfect. Here is an excellent response from a fellow user:
Christians just say that such defects are a result of sin entering the world. Adam and Eve were originally basically superman who never felt pain and couldn't die. When they bit the wrong fruit, their bodies could feel pain and they could now get old and die.
So, in the bible, sin is presumably a bad thing. Adam and Eve supposedly made us human (susceptible to disease and death) when they ate the fruit off the tree of knowledge, thus sinning, and made mortal humans into the flawed, imperfect organisms that they are today.
Well, my friends, it is an incisive, scientific fact that the earth's carrying capacity is limited. This is especially true in today's ongoing industrial revolution, in which people are using insane amounts of energy heating and lighting their homes, surfing Facebook, and belching carbon monoxide from their vehicle's tail pipes. Eventually, certain aging sectors of the population must die out in order for younger, newly-developed sectors to grow.
So let us assume that Adam and Eve did not eat that apple off the sacred Tree of Knowledge and plunge humanity into a sinful world where everyone died. That would be disastrous for the environment, as this uproarious video satirizes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_a6RjR_AHY
So, Adam and Eve, I am forever in your debt. You saved the environment.
Christians just say that such defects are a result of sin entering the world. Adam and Eve were originally basically superman who never felt pain and couldn't die. When they bit the wrong fruit, their bodies could feel pain and they could now get old and die.
So, in the bible, sin is presumably a bad thing. Adam and Eve supposedly made us human (susceptible to disease and death) when they ate the fruit off the tree of knowledge, thus sinning, and made mortal humans into the flawed, imperfect organisms that they are today.
Well, my friends, it is an incisive, scientific fact that the earth's carrying capacity is limited. This is especially true in today's ongoing industrial revolution, in which people are using insane amounts of energy heating and lighting their homes, surfing Facebook, and belching carbon monoxide from their vehicle's tail pipes. Eventually, certain aging sectors of the population must die out in order for younger, newly-developed sectors to grow.
So let us assume that Adam and Eve did not eat that apple off the sacred Tree of Knowledge and plunge humanity into a sinful world where everyone died. That would be disastrous for the environment, as this uproarious video satirizes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_a6RjR_AHY
So, Adam and Eve, I am forever in your debt. You saved the environment.
