Darren New wrote:
> Because, you know, the God that recommends murdering loving gay people 
> and punishes people and animals forever for things *our* secular justice 
> system says they're incompetent to be punished for is so compassionate.
> 

Reminds me of something someone else said in reference to the whole ID 
thing. Some of them have figured out that they can't bully a god into 
the thing if that god "created" everything as is. Either that, of they 
keep missing each other memos. Some of them, on a site called 'Uncommon 
Descent' recently, in the midst of banning posters and deleting comments 
that told them they where wrong, and why, wrote about an article that 
suggested that "Species have the 'latent potential' for more than what 
it currently possible, and thus things like increases in oxygen and 
result in those latent potentials being expressed." This is simply 
saying that, if a species "could be" 10 feet tall, but it is only 5 feet 
tall, more oxygen, which would help them metabolize food more 
efficiently, thus allowing them to get to 10 feet. This is a huge 
"Duh!", in some respects, since you can see body size differences in 
people, do to "nothing" more than if they are living where they have 
abundant food, as apposed to where they have little. UD interpreted this 
as "front loading". I.e., genes that where "preset" to activate, to 
produce some species later on. Same bunch also insist that God shows up 
to "tweak" things, all the time.

The question posed was, "What kind of incompetent, supposedly 
omni-potent, omni-present, and all loving god **can't** set the whole 
thing up to run without him, but has to show up like a software 
engineer, looking for bugs, to 'tweak' thinks, as they go wrong?"

Or, as someone else put it:

Omni-present, Omni-potent, and Omni-benevolent. Pick two!

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void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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