My buddy Ben had the following to say about Intelligent Design, “Don’t bible beaters understand that God would come off as infinitely more powerful and sublime if He was able simply to set the ground rules at the very beginning (whenever that was) and still get the universe to spit us out billions of years later.”
Ben on Intelligent Design:
“Not that this is the issue du jour any longer, but shouldn’t it strike even the most devout as odd that a necessary premise of Intelligent Design is that the Creator was not actually intelligent enough to get what He wanted the first time around. Seems to me that even Aquinas would have a fit if forced to defend an “infallible” being while also saying that He is forced to meddle from time to time to keep things going the way He originally wanted.
Don’t bible beaters understand that God would come off as infinitely more powerful and sublime if He was able simply to set the ground rules at the very beginning (whenever that was) and still get the universe to spit us out billions of years later. I’ll take elegant and beautiful over meddling and clunky every time — at least when an omniscient and omnipresent being is concerned.
Just a fun thought for the day.”
