It seems to me that if some intelligence really was responsible for the creation of everything, more logic would have gone into it. Humans cannot subsist on a diet too heavy in one type of food and too light in another. Diabetics cannot have complex sugars in excess, for example, and vegans must take vitamin supplements or risk a whole host of diseases.
So it seems to me that there is no real order to the way of things. Humans may have gotten the larger brains and ability to reason, but we got short-changed in the diet department. If we eat too much of one thing, we get fat; too little of another, we risk disease; and there are some things that can kill us outright.
If there is a benevolent force in the universe that wants us to be happy, why can't we eat what we like with no ill effects? And if this force doesn't necessarily want us to be happy, why should I care what it thinks?
2007-08-22 09:35:37 · 16 answers · asked by whtknt 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, that opens a whole new can of tomatoes, doesn't it?
2007-08-30 09:40:31 · update #1
WEAK ARGUMENT
the food we eat is all manufactured in places foreign to our bodies with chemicals, etc. . . .
try again
2007-08-29 14:38:03 · answer #1 · answered by Big Ed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well you will find that as more synthetic food and preservatives enter the food chain, and the ease of access we have to large amounts of food that would not normally be found in nature, the more health problems people get. Humans are the only ones with the ability to chemically alter their food, and so we are the only animals tampering with nature in exchange for better taste, and we haven't gotten that down to an exact science yet. You should care what the force thinks because the force can inflict things upon you that you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy, and tends to reward those who live with self discipline. The force doesn't seem to care if you're happy unless you do something to make the force happy as well, such as taking care of it's creations, and one of those creations is you.
2007-08-29 16:52:51 · answer #2 · answered by Mr. Bumpkins 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we live on Earth, not in Heaven, where everything is perfect. And because we're taught to have a balanced diet with no refined sugars. We ourselves were designed in God's image, but food wasn't. What wasn't grown, meat or vegetables and fruit, was made by man. Look at all the preservatives that go into food these days.
2007-08-30 09:01:20 · answer #3 · answered by lipsofanangel1974 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the food we eat is overly processed with preservatives and other chemicals. This includes what is fed to our meat animals and pesticides on our plants. If we ate the way that nature intended we would not have the problems that we do with food. Food is meant to sustain us, not to give us pleasure. Not to say that food can't be pleasurable, but that's not its main purpose. I think that a totally organic diet is best for us.
2007-08-29 22:59:03 · answer #4 · answered by pitterpat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we were eating the way the Intelligent Designer intended for us to eat AND our bodies were not subject to decay and brokenness as a result of OUR OWN original sin AND the crap we eat on a regular basis, then we wouldn't have problems.
I don't think there were any McDonald's, Twinkies or Coke in the garden.
2007-08-22 09:43:13 · answer #5 · answered by lady_phoenix39 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is such a just God that he gave us FREE WILL to choose to do the right thing or the wrong thing. Secular humanists just don't get this fact.
When we as individuals pick up a fork full of food we choose to put it in our mouths and consume it. So stop blaming God.
About death; Christians know that they will get to spend eternity in heaven or in New Jerusalem. Death does not scare Christians like it does non-believers. Why is that?
2007-08-29 03:53:20 · answer #6 · answered by D.A. S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assuming? Intelligent Design equips U with intelligence. What you do with it thereafter is left to your intelligent design. U can wreck yourself or make yourself. The latter change can in turn change the universe.
2007-08-30 08:04:46 · answer #7 · answered by virtrava 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever looked into the vitamin c anomaly?Ever wondered why our bodies don't just go ahead and make it or enough of it to suit our needs.Adam and Eve were vegetarians before the fall,so there was no need for their bodies to produce it.
2007-08-22 09:41:09 · answer #8 · answered by Derek B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God told everyone what to eat and what not to eat. Ever notice the Jews out live other races?
2007-08-29 06:57:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a trade off for our position in the food chain.
2007-08-22 09:46:35 · answer #10 · answered by chavito 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm a secular person who believes the theory of evolution is correct... but... I'm pretty sure Satan and the Fall are involved in this somehow ;-)
2007-08-22 09:41:10 · answer #11 · answered by Daniel 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋