The Jehovah's Witnesses visited again today.
They say they are not Creationists, but believe firmly in a Creator. I can't work out the difference.
They did agree with me on the Genesis 'world created in seven days' nonsense. They even pointed out a passage in the second book of Peter (II Peter 3:8) which actually supported my argument that the 'day' in Genesis was not to be taken literally as 24 hours.
I gave them ten points.
I argued that the creationist's favourite example of 'irreducible complexity', the human eye, was an appallingly bad design. Blood vessels and nerves run across the front of the retina. If they came out of the back, we would not have a blind spot and would hardly ever experience a detached retina.
To my surprise, they agreed. Ten points.
However, they persist in their belief that the human race was deliberately placed on Earth.
Minus fifty points for that one.
No intelligent designer would let humans loose on his carefully crafted design. Look what we've done to it. I cannot believe that humanity was placed here deliberately.
It is more logical to assume that we were a terrible, terrible accident.
1 comment:
"No intelligent designer would let humans loose on his carefully crafted design. Look what we've done to it. I cannot believe that humanity was placed here deliberately"
Nonsense. Didn't you ever spend hours in a sandbox or in the dirt building an entire city and then purposefully turn on a water hose or drop a giant beetle, a box of ants, your gerbil, into your perfect creation just to see what happened? Not all creators preserve their creations with reverence. Some build perfection for the joy of watching it be destroyed. They are called 'little boys', I believe. ;)
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