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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (39369)	6/6/1999 10:31:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Abdul Haq, Islam is really off my beat, as it were. :-) Yet it is hard for me to believe that the "problem of evil" never comes up in Islamic theology, or in the minds of ordinary believers. Seems to me that the question -- why did you do it the way you did? -- is bound to arise with regard to ANY Creator God who is presumed to be all-good as well as all-powerful, whether he be called God, Allah, or Jehovah, or whatever... Let us leave moral, "man-made" evil aside, for the moment, since it is a vastly more complex issue than the evil -- or, if you prefer, the total amorality -- of Nature. If the "spider thing" does not bother you at all, perhaps at least something on this VERY long list will. talkorigins.org The list -- sarcastically entitled "Why we Believe in a Designer" -- comes from a site dedicated to a discussion of the conflict between "creationism" and evolutionism. The "Designer" of course, is the God who allegedly created the world at one fell swoop during the Biblical seven days. A few examples from the list: Only a Designer would have had the infinite wisdom and compassion to create the copper-colored fly (Bufolucillab silvarum) that deposits its eggs in the nostrils of toads and frogs, after which the larva, when they hatch, blind and devour their hosts. Only a Designer would have had the infinite wisdom and compassion to create the Shrike, a bird of beautiful plumage, that attacks and slowly kills other birds (like Cardinals) by pecking their skulls open and eating out of it as their prey screams. Only a Designer would have had the infinite wisdom and compassion to create cecidomyian gall midges in which some parthenogenic females develop offspring that live within the mother's tissues, eventually filling her entire body and devour her from inside. And within two days, the females from that brood have begun to develop their own children which begin to eat them up. And so on. You should be able to find at least one thing on the list to make you suspect that there may be some flaws in the Creator God's idea of perfection....<g> Joan