The Problem of Unfishiness

[ciphergoth]

I am extremely flattered that my favourite atheistic blogger, Greta Christina, has taken a comment I made in her journal and made a post about it. I'm not sure she's quite nailed it on how what she discusses is different from questions like the nature of abiogenesis, but all the same I like the post and am very happy to have played a part in bringing it about.

Comments

Re: Assuming you're talking about an interventionist god...

[wwhyte.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting point and one I hadn't heard before. Having said that, horrible though bilharzia is, we can imagine something worse than bilharzia (bilharzia PLUS leprosy!). So I don't think this is entirely fair.

And I do think that "why does a loving God make necrotizing fasciitis?" is a different question from "why does a loving God let us stub our toe?" Pain from trauma serves a purpose -- to help us learn to avoid trauma. Pain from disease is just content-less suffering.