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To: r9etb
Let me ask you a very simple question. If the “designer” is indeed “intelligent”, then is it also possible that the “designer” is just as intentionally cruel as it is intelligent?

If that were not so then explain to me how an “intelligent” and “supernatural” designer would design a system, our own human bodies for just one example, that is sometimes ravaged by genetic abnormalities and disease? And why would an “intelligent” designer bother to create certain species only to later render them extinct?

Either the designer is not a very good designer or the designer intentionally built flaws into its creation out of some sort of cruel whim.

How would you, as a science teacher teaching ID, explain this to students with the same or similar questions without bringing your own personal religious/spiritual beliefs into the conversation?
68 posted on 07/08/2008 3:33:56 PM PDT by Caramelgal (Just a lump of organized protoplasm - braying at the stars :),)
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To: Caramelgal
the “designer” is indeed “intelligent”, then is it also possible that the “designer” is just as intentionally cruel as it is intelligent?

That's not a "simple question," it's just you trying to lure me into a religious debate. Sorry ... not biting.

77 posted on 07/08/2008 9:10:29 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: Caramelgal
If that were not so then explain to me how an “intelligent” and “supernatural” designer would design a system, our own human bodies for just one example, that is sometimes ravaged by genetic abnormalities and disease?

Sometimes people ask why God didn't create a perfect world. One in which there are no diseases, no pain, no suffering, no disabilities, no disasters, etc.

As a matter of fact, that's exactly the kind of world God did create for us. One simple disobedience changed all that. God gave us "free will". That is why we, and the world we live in, are not perfect.

139 posted on 07/09/2008 1:32:16 PM PDT by mtg
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