--- Richard Tenney <retenney@yahoo.com> wrote:
If this is the deliberate work of an intelligent designer, he's (I'll leave female deity out of this) one sick, sadistic creep to target children, the old and infirm.
Tough language; I don't want to go there. Yes, ID theory digs up a built-in theologic problem for Christians that it's non-scientific proponents may be downplaying - ID theory detracts from focusing on God as an omni-benevolent being. But the theologic problem of evil of whether God created evil isn't a new - Christainity has been dealing with it well since the fourth century, when St. Augustine answered the question - http://www.str.org/free/commentaries/apologetics/evil/augustin.htm - and with St. Aquinas's advice to concentrate on a moral life of good, not evil. Similarly, the less-abled are viewed not as expressions of God's sadism, but as an opportunity and challenge to emulate the Creator's omnibenevolence by practicing loving charity. Last post on ID. Adios - Canopus56 ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs