RE: [asa] Yet again i seek help (Iain s???)

Quoting Dick Fischer <dickfischer@verizon.net>:

> The blood clotting mechanism is just as good a place as any to start.
> Let's allow for the sake of discussion that an Intelligent Designer
> thought it up and placed it into living organisms just so. Fine. Now
> what do we tell the hemophiliac who lacks a blood clotting capability.
> Well, I guess the Intelligent Designer figured you didn't need it. Or
> better yet, it must be the product of sin! What have you been up to you
> aren't telling us about? What sinful activities were your ancestors up
> to? And so on.
>

..But then be prepared for this response: Well, it wasn't necessarily this
individual's sin that caused him to be this way. It is the general sin of
humanity (or the specific sin of that first human) that gives us our fallen
state and causes so many individuals to suffer in specific ways. I.e. --the
possibility of disease was introduced during the fall. Now we all suffer it in
various ways.

This is what they will reply back to you with.

--Merv

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Received on Wed Nov 19 14:00:34 2008