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To: Hound of the Baskervilles

You seem angry.

If humans have free will, why wouldn’t there be trials for us?

If this was Heaven, there wouldn’t be these things.

This is not Heaven. There will be problems that we humans need to try to solve...for intance...there’s no more bubonic plague, right?

Do you believe in God?


13 posted on 09/19/2009 7:53:18 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (doubleplusungood)
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To: Winstons Julia

“This is not Heaven. There will be problems that we humans need to try to solve...for intance...there’s no more bubonic plague, right?”

I am just saying that an intelligent designer would would have worked all these kinks out, not left it for someone else to fix five hundred years and 100 million gruesome deaths later. There’s no more bubonic plague. Glory be to scientists and doctors. They worked out a cure.

When you talk about heaven you are changing the subject from intelligent design to faith.


16 posted on 09/20/2009 7:52:28 PM PDT by Hound of the Baskervilles ("Nonsense in the intellect draws evil after it." C.S. Lewis)
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To: Winstons Julia

This is not Heaven. There will be problems that we humans need to try to solve...for intance...there’s no more bubonic plague, right?

I don’t see your point, even if you were correct. As it happens, you are incorrect.

http://www.infoplease.com/cig/dangerous-diseases-epidemics/bubonic-plague.html
“Bubonic plague is still prevalent in more than 20 countries. In the United States, the last rat-borne epidemic occurred in Los Angeles in 1924-1925. Since then sporadic cases have occurred, mostly in western states. Sources of cases today are wild rodents, especially squirrels, prairie dogs, and other burrowing rodents.

“Plague is found in parts of Russia and China and regularly occurs in Madagascar. Severe outbreaks have occurred in recent years in Kenya, Tanzania, Zaire, Mozambique, and Botswana. Plague also has been reported in western and northern Africa. In South America, plague is found in parts of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil. There is no plague in Australia, and Europe has not seen a case for more than 50 years...” “...The genome displays many irregularities due to genetic exchange with other microorganisms, and many of its genes appear to have been acquired from other bacteria and viruses. The evidence suggests that plague has undergone large-scale genetic change leading to rapid evolution, which makes it able to adapt to survive in many different environments.”


18 posted on 09/21/2009 6:55:57 PM PDT by I.Goldstein
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