Was the world and everything in it really created by a divine, benevolent being? While there are many wondrous things in the world that a creator could be proud of, it is impossible to deny much of the world is not so wonderful. For example, flies, mosquitoes and diseases clearly show this god cannot be a great as people say it is.
First consider a creature like the fly that has tormented man, child and beast since it came into existence. While the modern technological world has made the fly more of a nuisance for many people in wealthier nations, one only needs to look at a starving child being swarmed with flies in some developing country to get an idea how much misery they have brought about throughout history.
Carrying diseases and attacking the most helpless, including children, many luckless beings have gone to horrible deaths throughout history tormented by swarms of these dirty insects. This loving and merciful god had no problem sitting back and watching it all knowing he designed and invented the fly?
Why would a benevolent being create such creatures that have provided nothing but torment? While they may feed frogs and other animals, surely any god could find a better way or creature to fill their role in the food chain.
As bad as the fly is, the mosquito is worse. With malaria (another of god’s creations?), they have killed far more people than any other animal in history and brought indiscriminate death on an unimaginable scale.
Why create a biting creature that can both suck and spit at the same time (this is why mosquitoes spread disease) knowing how much agony it will cause, disease it will spread and death it will inflict on so many including helpless children? Could not the ecosystems of the world function without them? What useful function does it perform? Even if you can make some kind of biological excuse for mosquitoes, could not that function be performed in a better way? Would not a god have the intelligence so see what it was doing?
Also, there are diseases. Diseases are not only arbitrary in who they strike down, but they tend to strike down the youngest and most helpless. Why would a merciful god create diseases that have no function other than to kill and maim? If these are really the work of the devil (himself a creation of this god), why does not this god undo what this devil did? Either this god would have had to created these diseases or sat back and watched as they formed knowing they would kill and maim countless people.
Furthermore, since life is supposed to be a test, these diseases are destroying this god’s will because they are striking down people before they can be tested. Does this god lack the power or the will to stop diseases?
It sure seems like this god is getting a free ride here. It is not rational to give it credit for all the good things in the world while it escapes any responsibility for the bad. If this god is all-powerful and all-knowing, it had to have created the things the world would be better off without too. At the very least, one cannot deny it is letting the bad fester. Assuming everything is a god’s creation, it is time to start looking at that creation with a more balanced look. This creator is either lacking wisdom or benevolence.
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