Did your God intelligently design the earth so that only 1/8 is suitable for humans to live on?

Question

SDW: not to put too fine a point on it, but you can't build a house on a ocean. And if it were designed, even I with my feeble human brain could think of more efficient ways to provide water.

Answer 1

I hope you have been paying your rent.
You could get evicted you know.

Answer 2

Are you talking 1/8 of the total surface or merely 1/8 of the land surface. Because those vast oceans provide some things that are essential to the survival of man and all other life on this rock: water being the most obvious.

And if you are including the oceans in your total, then that means half the land mass is suitable for human life, which is still plenty of open space for a lot more humans to fit on this rock.

Answer 3

God created all for His glory. Not for ours.

Without the ecosystem of the oceans, it's unlikely that we would have the system of winds and rains that nourishes much of the available land.

It only takes a little bit of planetology study to see that scientists agree that our forms of life require an ecosystem with this much water.

Answer 4

It will not always be like it is.

(PSALM 72:16) There will come to be plenty of grain on the earth; On the top of the mountains there will be an overflow. His fruit will be as in Leb′a·non, And those who are from the city will blossom like the vegetation of the earth.

WILL COME TO BE....

(PSALM 37:34) Hope in Jehovah and keep his way, And he will exalt you to take possession of the earth. When the wicked ones are cut off, you will see [it].

SO THERE WILL LESS PEOPLE TO FEED. A LOT LESS.

Answer 5

Yes, but he was under the impression that we would at some point learn to respect the other 7/8ths so that other creatures could live freely. Men really has a way of ******* things up sometimes.............

Answer 6

Well, answering to your note about oceans, they are very important to this planet. The cold/warm streams in the oceans are essential to our weather patterns. I hate to do it, but I gotta...when God designed the earth he blessed it. It was delivered in perfect condition. Humans had 'other' plans. In about 70 years we have literally destroyed it. Scientists are worried that in the future this planet won't be able to sustain life. Is this God? Or human greed?

Answer 7

Low intelligence is the belief in what is called "intelligent design"

You make a good point, it is fortuitous that we have a planet with 66% water, if it were only 25% we would have an even bigger human population.

Answer 8

No, we were placed here {by others like us} on this fresh planet as an experiment, to see what would happen when several billion people get together with voraciously opposed belief systems that were ingrained in them somehow (ie brainwashing, mind control, propaganda etc), & then see how they react.

we are actually a project, we are building things with the natural resources and showing how to effectively overtake & strip-mine a virgin planet.

kind of like a virus, or kudzuu.


just my personal theory, or proverbial "2 cents"

Answer 9

The topography of the earth was changed during the flood.

Isaiah gives this same statement that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth (Isaiah 54:9). Clearly, what the Bible is telling us is that God altered the earth’s topography. New continental land-masses bearing new mountain chains of folded rock strata were uplifted from below the globe-encircling waters that had eroded and leveled the pre-Flood topography, while large deep ocean basins were formed to receive and accommodate the Flood waters that then drained off the emerging continents.

Answer 10

Well dunno but I guess the fish in the sea and all animals needed somewhere to live too. And also He did do an awesome work especially our oxogen on the earth that we are supplied from the plants and trees to the volcanic heat in the earths core to keep the earth wam. Neat aint it.

Answer 11

god made the oceans perfectly suitable to live on by designing big ships