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In reply to the discussion: God Just Plain Messed Up When He Supposedly Designed Us [View all]Silent3
(15,018 posts)30. Fossil record
There's plenty of evidence of disease and injury in the fossil record. And in the nearer term, well before Monsanto or the supposed evils of science and technology, there's plenty of historical records of childhood and other diseases. For most of the time humanity has been on this planet, infant mortality has been very high, and average lifespans have been 18-40 years.
Besides, even if there were a complete absence of evidence, do you think the benefit of the doubt goes toward imagining the human past was some paradise of long, healthy lives, that people, by being so bad and naughty, destroyed?
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I tend to believe the "flaw" is in the nature of man, rather than the biology.
FedUpWithIt All
Apr 2012
#2
If our biology was better, a lot of flaws "in the nature of man" wouldn't matter
Silent3
Apr 2012
#8
God didn't screw up, the human race screwd up, on their own. Not fair to point fingers.
crunch60
Apr 2012
#3
Something in a screwed up DNA. Parents pass on to their children many anomalies. Humans
crunch60
Apr 2012
#24
So tell me, just how do you know what childhood diseases were around a million years ago?
crunch60
Apr 2012
#29
That's a good argument if one believes that god actually saves or heals the sick.
cbayer
Apr 2012
#49
The process of evolution is mindless, it doesn't care about all the wrong turns...
Silent3
Apr 2012
#10