Re: [asa] Designed Kangaroos?

At 03:44 PM 7/27/2007, David Opderbeck wrote:

>Michael said: I don't see design and evolution in contradiction but
>I would want to ask why God designed the Ebola virus.

>Do you think the Ebola virus is "evil?" Or is the "evil" the
>suffering it causes in people? If the evil is the latter, maybe the
>better question is, "why doesn't God enable people to develop the
>technology to prevent people from being infected and/or affected by
>the Ebola virus?" Reframed that way, maybe some of the traditional
>Christian theodicies provide more meaningful answers. What
>technologies would humans have been able to develop if human society
>had proceeded in perfect fellowship with God and among people --
>i.e., if we had not sinned?

@ Algore's eco-wacko followers would want science to "design" an
Ebola virus if one didn't exist.
Newsweek Warmly Imagines Virus Wiping Out Man, Earth's 'Most
Disruptive Species'
http://www.newsbusters.org/node/14173 July 17, 2007 - 22:52 ET

~ Janice

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Received on Fri Jul 27 16:24:41 2007