The Big Bang (Origins)

by David Turell , Wednesday, May 05, 2010, 16:45 (5314 days ago) @ dhw

In the case of Creatures v. Creator, David is acting as Defence Attorney for the Creator:
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> "We can't stop earthquakes, but we can analyze quake zones and seemingly are learning to issue warnings beforehand. It appears that to develop a planet for life those zones are necessary. The same is true for disease and medical care. This tells me we have a tough-love God who challenges us to compete with the problems and solve as many of them as we can." 
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> I don't know why a God capable of creating universes "at will" should be unable to develop a planet for life without earthquakes and diseases, not to mention floods, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, droughts etc. -All I can do is refer you to the book: "Rare Earth" By Ward and Brownlee, which gives the impression that the only type of life-creating planet that can be made from the original 92 elements is the Earth will all its dangers. Wishing for a God who removed all those dangers follows religions' reasoning that God is all-powerful. We don't know that. What He is capable of is what we see, nothing more. That is an obvious statement. Don't be confused by religious wishfull thinking.