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World created by a blueprint fashioned by a supreme creator or whether it is a product of Darwinian Evolution

A concept that humanity struggles with is the belief in and nature of an ultimate design and whether the world was created according to a blueprint fashioned by a supreme creator or whether it is a product of Darwinian Evolution where only the most fit survive. Science supports Darwinism in that a species either adapts or perishes based on its ability to establish dominance, there is no fairness or pre-destiny rather just as a pair of sixes come up on a set of dice one in every thirty-six times, species on this planet either make it or not, not through help from the heavens but by chance. As Russell points out, if there was an omnipotent being with ultimate wisdom the best he could come up with would not be the Ku Klux Klan and Fascists.
Humans use the idea of design as a way to rationalize suffering and tend to only except science when it is necessary for survival. Religious Cancer patients do not say “No God created me this way, I will have no treatment. God’s will be done...

Posted by: Sylvia Schiavoni

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