Posted: Feb 26, 2014 9:33 am
Rumraket wrote:
Why would your designer design an organism with a gene for making vitamin C, then break the gene with mutations, so the organism cannot synthesize it's own vitamin C any more?
Yes he would. We have blind people, people without arms or legs, people with downs syndrome, people with autism, short people, etc. All these have been designed so that they can live their lives and we can observe them. Everything that can be observed in the universe has limitations as believers we believe everything has a purpose otherwise it would not exist. I know that to many non believers disabilities (as well as evil in the world) does not make sense in terms of there being God. The problem is that non believers aren't willing to accept the beliefs about God so they only think from their own perspective and desires. As humans we want to have an enjoyable life with no sadness and pain. We want everything to make sense and to be easy to accomplish. But from an Abrahamic faith point this is not what is written. Some of us will have a fantastic life some won't, some will brown, some will be white, some will be disabled, some won't, some will die early, some will live long, etc. Whatever happens is not under our control.
The broken vitamin C gene in no way refutes ID but it does raise questions about evolution.