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>On Sat, 10 Jan 1998 davidmusick@juno.com (David A Musick) Wrote:
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> >I don't understand why "God" equals pain, suffering and death. >Please explain.
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>People die, everything dies, usually in agony. All life is built on pain,
>life only exists because of Darwinian evolution, that is, random mutation and
>natural selection, and a more horrible mechanism for achieving progress can
>not be imagined.
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Yes. Accept the God hypothesis and random, senseless suffering is
a problem. Accept the Darwinian hypothesis and random, senseless
suffering is exactly what you would expect from a Darwinian world, as
Richard Dawkins said somewhere.
Guru George