If God exists, why did he create life? (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Tuesday, January 04, 2011, 09:13 (5071 days ago) @ dhw

Even if I were to accept (though I don't) that the Boxing Day 2004 tsunami which killed over 230,000 people and devastated communities and towns over a vast area was actually necessary for the survival of the human race, and that the ghosts (I speak figuratively) of the once flourishing Pompeii should be comforted by the fact that "a volcano creates earth and soil that will eventually provide habitable land", the point of my terrorist analogy was to focus on the mind of the perpetrator.-As an aside here, Tsunamis, as we all know are the result of earthquakes. Earthquakes produce tremendously violent shock waves, again, as we all know. Water, as a medium, is terribly efficient at absorbing the energy of those shock-waves, which are then transformed into motion and form the waves that become Tsunami's. We all know all this. My questions that I would ask you to ponder are, what would happen to this world we call home if there were no medium to absorb all the tremendous energy released in an earthquake? How long do you think our home would survive under the constant onslaught of these earthquakes? Do you think that plate tectonics, and thus earthquakes, are not an integral part of life on this planet, a geologic necessity for the survival and development of life? -The volcano at Pompeii, is another fine example. Do you think that life on this planet, regardless of whether you believe in a UI or evolution, could exist without volcanoes? Does the fact that volcanoes serve as a natural pressure relief system for the Earth's molten core (Which provides our EM field, and a host of other benefits) not strike you as a necessity for the stability of the planet, aside from the many other numerous benefits they provide? Do you think our planet, and thus our species or any other that calls this planet home could could survive without volcanoes?-I will end this particular aside here, as my other response to your post covers my view on the humanitarian side of things.