Posted: Nov 07, 2019 7:45 pm
by Spearthrower
The history of the last 550 million years of life, with the constant conflict between predators and prey and all the pain and suffering that history entails, proves unarguably that any postulated Creator is far from loving. A loving Creator, by definition, could not create a world in which the daily lot of so many life forms is to suffer a nature “red in tooth and claw”. Thus, either the God of the Bible is not loving, or he does not exist.


I've written extensively about this in the past as it absolutely impossible to reconcile.

However, the faithful will reconcile it in the most banal and mindless ways. They won't ever engage with this honestly; they'll either become incredibly ignorant and unfeeling, or they'll start asking you to come up with better ways then pretending that whatever you say isn't possible thereby defeating the concept of the Creator god they buy into.

It's actually a crushing argument, which is why fundies can only seek to wave it away. It also makes for very uncomfortable reading for theistic evolutionists, but I usually leave them alone as they're at least not out to deny knowledge.