How God works (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 01:42 (4332 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained


> Tony: I could go on and on with the irrationality of complaining that the possibility of pain should not exist.-I'm on your side. Pain is a friend that warns you of trouble so you can do something to protect yourself, as you have stated.-The issue of evil can be approached in a number of ways, but pain caused by other humans to other humans is not under God's control. In evolution 'red in tooth and claw' is part of the mechanism of evolution. Living animals have to eat, and eat each other they do. They also set up balances in nature that are necessary as you have pointed out in your discusdsion of ecosystems. Life requires ingestion of nutrients. Try and get by without 'red tooth and claw'! -Perhaps dhw would prefer life never existed. I cannot imagine another arrangement for an evolutionary process, if there is a large element of competition to test the genetic advances. It is amusing to think dhw might prefer that God made everything in advance so as to get around the process of evolution, and gave Man dominion over everything as in Genesis, with no free will and gentle human personalites.