Please don't put words in my mouth, TED. Evolution is a natural process; we're natural beings. Evil is a word we invented, to describe an aspect of our reality. I would no more call evolution evil than I would call a rainstorm or a sunrise or the progression of the seasons evil.TheEllipticalDisillusion wrote:You're blaming evolution then for the negatives? Down with Evil Evolution!
Why are the negatives because we aren't what god intended us to be? What was the intention? I'd say it's entirely plausible that the positives are what this god did not intend. This is one of the aspects of the worship of dieties that I just don't understand. It seems to me that believers pick the good as defining characteristics of their god and attribute the negative elsewhere.
I have no intention of engaging with you on the question of the nature of God. Except that I owe it to myself to mention that you know much less than you think you do about what believers believe and why, or about the range and diversity of our beliefs—as your remarks to me demonstrate.