[P-Marlowe]

If I were to attribute all the living things in the world to deliberate, conscious design, I would conclude that the designer is a sadist.

From that statement I would have to conclude that you believe either:

1) God is impotent
2) God is Evil or
3) God does not exist.

Which is it?

[js1138]

I said designer. My understanding is that ID is not a religious concept.

I would couclude, assuming that all of life is deliberately and consciously designed, that the space alien designers are evil.

[js1138]

If ID is taught in schools, I think that obvious conclusion will simply jump out of any discussion of predation, parasites and disease. Any sane person would conclude that the designer of such a system must be psychopathic.

[drlevy88]

God made a way for beings to choose either to evil or good. He can certainly do whatever He pleases, but He has chosen not to be a puppeteer or a manufacturer of robots. The creation is in a tension between the goodness of God and the evil chosen first by some of the angels, then later by mankind. Satan has a say for a little while, but the creation is redeemed in the end.