I briefly had the thought today that evolution-deniers must believe that god is busy creating drug-resistant bacteria, but then I remembered that evolution-deniers are a wacky bunch and draw all kinds of Scostmen around everything. Macro-evolution is not micro-evolution, and mutations aren’t necessarily micro-evolution and all. But while I was googling around to see if anyone had addressed this argument, I found this gem:
So god IS creating drug-resistant bacteria! Because of sin, or something.
One free internet point to anyone who can make that make sense.
I’ve never understood the argument that God can’t exist because He would never have created all the vile parasitic wasps/pain & suffering in the world/drug-resistant bacteria. He after all supposedly created some supremely dastardly primates.
What’s wrong with just saying He’s a transparent ‘Eternal Proxy-Father’ construct? Settled.
Now let all the nations of the world unite to create our glorious Tower of Ba…er…Space Elevator!
Because belief in gods is all wish fulfillment in the first place, and most people don’t want to believe in an evil or amoral god. And the Christian god specifically is supposed to be omnibenevolent, and when most people in America or on this America-based board say “God” that’s the god they mean.
Therefore, arguing that something from nature is evil is a useful argument against them because they claim their god is perfectly benevolent, as well as all knowing and all powerful. Which means that any and all evil in the world must be planned and intended by their god.
I believe the OP’s point is that for people who don’t believe in evolution, they must then think that god creates new strains of drug resistant bacteria, since evolution doesn’t exist.
Yup, essentially. God ain’t got no sensory input organs; consequently, He created trillions of unmanned probes to act as eyes, ears, taste buds, olfactory receptors, consciences, etc. Once a probe becomes unable to experience the Universe, all the data that it collected is uploaded into the Divine Consciousness for later review.
Which leads to the question: are you experiencing your life right now, or are you merely in playback mode?
I think what the quoted evolution-denier is saying is that they adapt, but do not evolve. How he or she is distinguishing between adaption and evolution is of course the next question.
1963 - America removes prayer from public schools
1967 - A study on various samples of salmonella found about 1/5 were resistant to at least one antibiotic.
Coincidence? I don’t think so. Moral of the story is if you don’t want to shit blood after eating a turkey sandwich you’d better put prayer back in school.
