Why does God get the credit?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

You're right, of course.  I should be on my knees thanking almighty God each and every day for AIDS, SARS, birth defects, too many cancers to list, malnutrition, starvation, cholera, small pox, polio, heavy metal poisoning, and radiation sickness.  Not to mention the thousands of people who die every day from want, neglect, war, natural disasters, accidents, envenomations, and so on.

It can't be any clearer that God loves us.  I feel a complete fool.

Boru

 You should feel the fool for a statement like that, you've argued with Christians enough to know all that you listed is a result of man's sin. God shows his love for us by giving people the brains to be doctors, engineers and ect. I do not have the brain that would allow me to accomplish those things, my abilities lay else where. I am grateful that those people chose to become doctors and engineers and I'm grateful that God gave them the brain it took to do those things. So yes God deserves to receive thanks and so do the people who help us with our difficulties and other things of necessity. The thing I find interesting in the OP is everyone assumed the person was a Christian. Many times I've heard people who do not believe use the same phrase. If you are going to argue over something certain grounds need to be established or you might be wasting your time and energy on something as silly as a spoken phrase that could have meant nothing to the person who stated it, she didn't even mention God according to the OP so all was assumed.

GC

Giving thanks to God for supplying humanity with doctor and engineers is a lot like being grateful to the man who sells you a bandage after he stabs you with a knife.

Boru