If we are intelligently designed then why does the sun burn our skin?

Question

Sunlight provides us with vitamin D and burns us at the same time. What was god thinking when it made that decision?

Answer 1

Ah. And here we come upon (yet another) clear instance of "intelligent design" (creationism) being based on faith.

After all, if humans...indeed, any or all life...were "designed", rather than evolved, then it would actually make perfect sense to critique that design. And, looking at life as it is, it's quite clear that the "designer", if any, wasn't very good at what he was doing. Or he had no motivation, and instead chose traits at random.

Odds are, he knew what he was doing - building chemical machines is tough stuff.
But if this "designer" just chose traits at random, then the whole concept of "intelligent design" fails instantly; the phenomena can be much more easily and sensibly explained by evolution than by some random cosmic sociopath.

Worse yet, these aren't the answers creationists will give you to your question. Instead, they'll try to explain away your critique with simplistic thinking and/or theology and/or pseudoscience, none of which are valid or even relevent.
Or still worse yet, they'll say "well we can't know the motivations of god...i mean...the designer!" or "who are we to question god...i mean...the designer!".

Thus, their thought process is completely irrational; a rational approach to the problem would clearly indicate that we absolutely *can* infer the motives of a creator by looking at his work, and that we absolutely *can* judge his competance in his work. It's very simple logic.

Remember kids: if you're going to design a machine to exist in an environment that includes ionizing radiation (sunlight), you make sure it's shielded against that radiation.
Human skin isn't shielded by any design, unless you try to claim that "skin pigment" is designed, purposeful radiation shielding - which it clearly isn't, because it barely works at all. If it is, then the designer is incompetant, and we already know that that's not a sensible claim.

You won't believe the ridiculous things some people will come up with to explain THAT away too. Most of it involves magic tricks on the part of god...i mean...the designer!

Answer 2

We were created by the Creator.....we must not forget since creation man has played the fool and has lost our first estate,we are now living in the universe after a flood which has produced weather that had not been experience before the flood,causing the canopy of ice crystals in the atmoshere to fall and now we have just a small lens over us called ozone.

Answer 3

No one with their intelligence remains to be in the sunlight till he or she burns to the level of vanishing. So you can't question the God's decision, I presume!

Answer 4

Why, Why, Why ? do not you get ill and tierd of continuously blaming God ? when we are out contained in the solar for lengthy classes of time, we favor to do the safe practices ourselves. Even back contained in the olden days, people contained in the fields knew adequate to placed on lengthy sleeves, and head placed on. at the same time as people lay out contained in the solar for lengthy classes of time , with purely a bikini on, and prefer to grow to be very beautiful tan, then in all information they comprehend they're exposing their pores and skin to extreme stages of solar rays. can't be that demanding to comprehend. yet your the type which will blame God , regardless of the reality that in case your BM's are the incorrect color. So unhappy and to undesirable !!

Answer 5

whenthe earth was new the sun doesnt burn as it does now. due to human activities and other factors the earth lost its protection against the harm that the sun emits. that's why we suffer now. don't blame God

Answer 6

too much Vitamin D in our skin turns into cyanide and by us burning, it is our bodies natural defense against this phenomenon

Answer 7

The vast majority of creationists do not believe their theory for scientific reasons. Do not expect a coherent logical answer.

Answer 8

If he made us impervious to all things, that would affect our free will and chances of evolving into greater people.

Imagine a world of no disease, no worry of getting hurt and no problems. What motivation would we have to learn and evolve?

Answer 9

Yes, and if you eat to much pottassium, a neccesary vitamin, then you die. Or just about anything.

Answer 10

fire cooks our food and keeps us warm -- yet it can burn us.
water quenches our thirst and maintains life -- yet we can drown.

what was G-d (if we're assuming He was the designer) thinking when He invented fire and water!?!