A gift from God?
Nice god you got there.
Created by a infinitely intelligent, infinitely powerful, perfect god? Yeah right.
Okay so who's to blame for this?
A loving omnipotent god?
His sidekick Lucifer?
The victims themselves?
Mindless nature?
If this is not the god's fault then that god cannot be omnipotent. If the god did not foresee this when it designed the universe it would certainly not be omniscient, it would not even be particularly intelligent.
If the god is omnipotent then these things exist because it wanted them to exist and that god is an evil twisted fuck. If this universe isn't precisely in every little detail exactly how God wants it to be then God is not omnipotent. If it is, then the god is evil and should be despised by all decent people and certainly not adored and worshiped.
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
-Epicurus
Intelligent design
One would expect an Intelligently Designed creation to be highly efficient and if the designer was omnipotent then its creations would have to be perfect. In this universe all life is absolutely riddled with flaws. (see above)
In Intelligent Design there is no need for mutations. The fact that mutations exist indicates a designer that is either incompetent or a malicious sadist, neither of which is particularly appealing and certainly not worthy of admiration and worship.
Mutations are an absolutely vital component of evolution. Without mutations there would be no evolution. Evolutionary Theory requires mutations. Evolutionary Theory predicts mutations.
I find the idea that this universe, full with the most terrible suffering imaginable, is the product of a sentient being absolutely horrifying. No give me mindless nature anyday.
PATHETIC DESPERATION
Intelligent Design, the God of the flagella
So-called scientists like M. Behe and the whole Discovery Institute are on a desperate mission to find some scientific evidence, any scientific evidence at all, of a god, preferable their god.
And after searching the entire scientific universe the best that they can come up with is the flagella.
So they have finally found irrefutable proof for a god and its the microscopic flagella.
flagella; a tail like appendage used by various bacteria and other single cell organisms to propel themselves in a fluid.
Yes, Behe has searched this entire universe far and wide and all he can come up with as proof for his omnipotent god, is the flagella.
Supreme Arrogance
The elephant in the room.
With all the talk of flagella and blood clotting mechanisms, focusing on these microscopic little details while what Behe and the Discovery Institute are really saying is; "hey we're so wonderfully fantastic, so superduper, so complex that we could only have been designed and constructed by an infinitely intelligent, infinitely powerful, perfect god.
When they talk about 'the miracle of life' what they are actually saying is that they think they must be a miracle.
Well I know I certainly wasn't designed and constructed by a infinitely intelligent, infinitely powerful, perfect god.
Every time I took a shit I would seriously doubt that. Every time I malfunction, every time I forget something vitally important or stub my toe or ding my car or fall of my motorcycle or get a headache or backache is proof that I was not designed by an omnipotent entity.
Every mutated baby is proof against Intelligent design.