Argument #1: Transitional Fossils

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Fair enough. I've come up with some perplexing questions to which 'God' is a better answer than 'We're working on it':

1. Why, even with the healthiest of parents, are some infants born with birth defects so severe that they die within minutes or hours of birth? Preferred answer: God.

2. Why are old ladies so often robbed and beaten for their pension money? Preferred answer: God.

3. How is it possible, given the vast advances in agricultural and food distribution technologies, that so much of the world's population hovers between malnutrition and starvation? Preferred answer: God.

4. Why does the genital butchery known as female circumcision continue to be practiced? Preferred answer: God.

Any others?

Boru

#1 - welcome to a world that we chose by rebelling and introducing sin, chaos, unfairness, and disorder

#2 - Thou shalt not steal. Disobey?

#3 - The reason for starvation in the world is poverty. If the 1% of the world's wealthiest gave a mere fraction or a fraction of their wealth to feeding the world's hungry there would be no problem here. The problem here is not God who gave us a planet that easily can produce enough food for everyone, but greed.
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Lear...202002.htm

#4 - When did God ever tell us to do that? He said be fruitful and multiply

So then God is NOT the answer you prefer?

Boru

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Yes, you are. So am I and so is every other human being on the planet. Humans, gorillas, chimps and bonobos are taxonomically identical down to the Family level (Hominidae).

To claim that human beings are not apes is precisely akin to claiming that Chihuahuas are not dogs because they don't look exactly like mastiffs.

When you deny the basic precepts of biological evolution (common descent, speciation, natural/sexual selection, and so forth) and do so in the face of overwhelming evidence for evolution, you're simply displaying a willful, deliberate ignorance. This is the intellectual equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears, squinching your eyes shut, and shouting, 'Nyah, nyah, nyah, I can't hear you!!'

You've lost this one, Rev. Evolution is a fact, as little in doubt as gravity. When you claim the opposite, you look as foolish as someone doubting that gravity is real.

Boru

My beef is with "Molecule to Man" evolution.

Who the hell are you to tell God how to accomplish his miracles? If God chose to have molecules evolve into human beings, isn't that a much greater achievement that simply creating life ex nihilo? Double Check the scripture you claim to love so much. Particularly Genesis 1:24.

'And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.' (and before you pounce on the inconsequentiality of the term 'kind', nowhere does Genesis say or imply that these 'kinds' are immutable).

Even according to the Bible, God didn't simply create life, he did something much more impressive - he had the inanimate earth create life. And yet you come in here, with your stupefying ignorance of basic science (not to mention basic theology) and proceed to limit what your all powerful God can do.

Boru