Should this idea affect one's concept of a benevolent God?
"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars." -Charles Darwin
Can you understand how it would affect Darwin?
2007-04-06 08:30:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's just gross!
2007-04-06 08:35:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How it would affect him?
Are you suggesting that Darwin was biased against religion? He was a scientist; he saught rational explanations for things. It doesn't seem rational that a God would create such a creature for any reason.
As beautiful and intricate as the world is, it is often illogical. If it were created by an omnipotent, omniscient god, I have to think it would be simpler and more logical.
I was thinking about it yesteray when I saw some really awesome clouds. Most people at that point say, "Wow--doesn't that right there just prove God's majesty and power?" I looked at it and thought, "Clouds are made of water vapor. If there is a God, why would he make clouds out of water vapor? Why wouldn't he make them out of clouds?"
2007-04-06 08:36:42 · answer #2 · answered by Dan X 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No offense to Chuck, but I can think of way better examples than that to discredit the idea of a beneficent and omnipotent god.
2007-04-06 08:37:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is that worse than a lion killing and feeding on a zebra?? A benevolent God makes the necessities of life available for all His creatures, including carnivores.
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2007-04-06 08:36:04 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference"
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
2007-04-06 08:44:19 · answer #5 · answered by U-98 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's struggling with the reality of God
2007-04-06 08:35:27 · answer #6 · answered by Maurice H 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
darwin was in over is head...but didnt like to accept that...
2007-04-06 08:34:31 · answer #7 · answered by ya ok....sure 2 · 0⤊ 5⤋