Brilliant new apologetic fact

[emilynghiem]

Having a discussion on another forum, I am astounded at the following argument:

God created everything, but he didn't create diseases/cancer etc because these aren't "things".

So we end up with both the claim that everything must have been designed due to blah blah blah, followed by "except all the bad bits which weren't designed".

I thought at first this guy was just a moron, but this argument seems to not even come from him. It is in the form "evil is not a thing" which is slightly better until you try to insert real life examples in, after which it again fails.

When you get arguments like this, you realise they are just trying to say anything to avoid having to think about it and hope it goes away.

I think it helps to have a Buddhist background to explain this. By the laws of cause and effect or karma, we learn by experience. So things that are out of balance or unhealthy yield ills and disease/death, while choices that are more balanced and healthy promote healing and life.

So if you believe human nature is designed to learn by free will and reason, then both the good and bad consequences motivate us to study and understand the laws of nature so we seek what is healthy and balanced and avoid what causes pain suffering death and disease.

If Christians keep rejecting Buddhism and secular ways of explaining how laws of nature work, they can't answer their own questions.