In a message dated 3/17/2001 11:53:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
fehlinger@home.com writes:
<< I've always imagined that the creator's hands were simply
 tied in this regard.  You want intelligence?  Then you
 put up with aeons of pain and suffering and death -- the
 whole bloody red-in-tooth-and-nail evolutionary trajectory.  Those
 are the Rules(*).
 
 Jim F. >>
Thats called Process Theory, as promoted by Whitehead and Hartshorne.  
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