To Creationists, if your designer was so intelligent, why didn't he make you capable of drinking salt water?

Question

The United Nations reports that a lack of fresh, clean drinking water inflicts enormous hardship on more than a billion members of the human family, and more than 3 million die each year from lack of access to fresh, clean water.

Why did your designer make 97% of the crucial element humans need to live, undrinkable? Five year old children understand this concept. Your all-knowing god couldn't forsee this problem when he designed Earth's ecosystem, and his most cherished creations? If he cared so much about you, wouldn't he have made the seas freshwater, or designed people so they'd be able to drink salt water?

This doesn't seem like a very "intelligent" designer to me.

(Now we're probably gonna hear how he took out his giant salt shaker after Adam & Eve sinned.)

hillbilly,

Whales are other sea mammals are not gods, "favorite creation." If this god loved humans so much, it makes sense that he'd create an environment as favorable to their existence as possible.

Answer 1

he flunked high school.

Answer 2

Actually, He took out His giant salt shaker at the time of the Flood. If you know that much about the Bible, you should have found out that there was no rainfall before the Flood, that the topology of Earth was uniform with the highest point on Earth being no more than say 50 m.

You do realize that if this earth has been in existence for millions of years under current weather patterns (stasis), that the seas would have had a much greater salt content than that of the Dead Sea? And that there should have been much more silt on the seafloor?

So, yes, the salt shaker took effect after Adam and Eve sinned though not immediately. That had to wait until the Flood.

Take a little advice : If you don't believe the Bible, don't quote it.

Answer 3

If any one has to answer for this it is man. God made the world and everything in it....but just like you give some children a doll to play with they pull out the hair and undress them leaving them naked. What does the parents do ...let them continue to play with the doll. Whatever please themselves. How about that for intelligent design...when man is left alone he is capable of anything. God loves us like a parent but if you do not respect and appreciate what God has given you. What? Man tends to misuse and abuse everything even each other..Now since you like the thoughts of having clones and DNA growth experiments make your own man designed to drink salt water. There is more to the United Nations reports than lack of fresh water. God inspires men and women with ideas..yet they still do not get it ,there is a cure for what ills man. Jesus saves.

Answer 4

great point. Also I would like to add that if god is all knowing than he would have made the ocean waters drinkable rather than undrinkable.

Once again another question that further discredits the existence of god.

I'm sure someone will claim that the reason is some where in the bible and make a quote from the bible as "proof" they are right

Answer 5

It can be used for drinking, all it needs is to be de-salinated and filtered for purification. Now, let us turn the question around, if we may----If we slowly evolved out of a sludge of salt water (the sea), why did we evolve away from being able to drink salt water? It stands to your reasoning that evolution is for the better types, so if this is so, we should have been able to drink it like the whales and other oceanic mammals do, right? God bless.

Answer 6

And wouldn't it be nice if we could drink "the crucial element" humans are mostly made of too, lexmarkninja. "The earth groans beneath the weight of the sinners that occupy its soil" (Romans 8.22) Global Warming anyone? This is prophesied to occur. It was intentional just as the death of sinners and saints alike. And it gets worse. Even if you don't want to believe in my God, shinobi.

God bless

Answer 7

God takes care of His own. I don't know of any Christian who has ever died of hunger or thirst. God makes sure every person who does His will has everything he needs to live. Your question assumes that the Creator's biggest concerns should be the same as yours. Bad assumption. Luckily for you, God has decided to allow you to choose your God. Be careful what you choose.

Answer 8

I am more concerned about Viruses and Bacterias and a billion other bugs.... Would you take your time to design them? O Yea! Must have been the Devil!
Only brain dead people can believe that horse manure!

Answer 9

Hey? Let's turn this one around for fun.
Evolutionists? If selection is so effective as a means of life form survival, why did not evolution provide the ability to drink saltwater as a primary mechanism for humans to live?

I think the effective term for your accusation is "false dichotomy".


Do you really want to blame God for mankind's mismanagement of the earth's resources?
Every ten years or so, California (where I live) says we need to conserve water because we are in a drought. Yet, when we have surplus rainy seasons, all that water is a 'nuisance' and a "hazard", with which the "intelligent" species called man, diverts directly back into the saltwater Pacific Ocean.
Seems to me, that it is mankind, who has within it's power, to build reservoirs and water storage, the greater responsibility to secure fresh water for it's masses that to blame God for man kinds inability, or irresponsibility to properly manage the plentiful rainfall that typically occurs, and not plan for the seasons where less rain is available.
So, where is your answer? Obviously you are trying to slander, and say there is no God, and if so, what excuse do you have for the stupidity of man to not take the necessary steps to provide for himself clean water?

Answer 10

God gets an F for his intelligent design

Answer 11

Well, considering there was no layer of salt in the sediment after the flood, we can possibly conclude that the salt wasn't in the water at that point. I can't answer that. I'm not God. I'm sure He had His reasons.