Re: Why on earth would God......?

Kendall Down <kkdown@xxxxxxxxxx> was inspired to say
On 07/11/2011 18:25, Michael J Davis wrote:

Your attitude seems to be that because, say, gravity works naturally,
you shouldn't try to prevent the tragic consequences of its action. Or
because earthquakes are (presumably) allowed to happen by God, you
shouldn't try to prevent the tragic consequences of their action.
If not, I don't follow your (serious) arguments about evolution.

No, that is not my attitude, but I fail to understand why it is not the
attitude of the evolutionist, Christian or otherwise.

Take, for example, the question of road safety. As a Christian I regard
each soul as precious and desire to obviate the suffering caused by
carelessness - whether on the part of the driver or the pedestrian. In
addition, I regard suffering and death as unnatural evils introduced as
a result of sin, whose effects are to be alleviated as part of the
Christian ideal of heaven (on earth).

What I want to know is why the evolutionist insists on cars driving at
20mph in a residential suburb or even past schools? Surely it can only
be a good thing of those whose genes cause them to be careless on roads
are eliminated as soon as possible before they have a chance to pass on
those defective genes? He may regret the suffering, much as he regrets
the killing of cute zebras by lions, but in the grand scheme of things,
so long as there are lions and drivers a bit of suffering is inevitable
and - shrug - the weakest and least fit are eliminated. The end result
is faster and fitter zebras (and healthier herds) and more attentive
pedestrians.

Ken, that comment is as facile as one that suggests that Christians
should kill babies before the age of discretion so that they never have
a chance to sin!

In any society (or belief system if you will), Christian or atheist,
Muslim or Buddhist, the mark of a caring person is that s/he will act to
help others in the face of individual suffering. Why should an
understanding of evolution make a person any different from one with an
understanding of gravity or of Jesus' death and resurrection?

You seem to think the theory of evolution is a religion. I see it as
part of God's brilliant plan for His creation.

Mike

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