Idoubt

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As mentioned above, the bar for "fitness" is set quite low: survive long enough to replicate. Ever choke on anything? That's because, for a mammal like you, the air hole and the food hole is the same hole. Not quite enough of us choke to death before breeding to exert any pressure on our genome. A creator that favours humanity would "fix" this in snakes (the tube framed by the paperclip is the snake's glottis, leading straight to the trachea), but not in his ideal creation in his own image? What about parasites? The guinea worm? Diseases? Evolution aside for a moment, I don't understand how anyone can look at the natural world, and imagine a benevolent creator. Given the guinea worm, EVIL or non-existent are the only two options for a creator. Yet, humanity is in the process of doing what God would not - either out of malice or not being real. There's so many things with no way of life but to tunnel through the living flesh of their hosts, or lay their eggs in the babies of their victims, eat each other in the womb, kill babies that aren't theirs... you get the idea. Any creator, realistically, would be quite a lot more H. P. Lovecraft than C. S. Lewis.

Can't they just say stuff like this happened as a result of the Fall?

 

If God is omnipotent and omniscient, and the fall still happened, Adam and Eve were set up, and God is evil, or, you know, God isn't omnipotent, and omniscient, and therefore not God. Option C: the whole thing is a mythological fiction, like any other. God, in His omnipotent, omniscient glory, by definition, foresaw and caused the Fall, so, even if they do, the choices are either actively evil (that whole benevolence thing again), or not God. Heh heh.