ongelovige wrote:Indeed, mindboggling. As fas as I'm concerned add: why do women have to suffer so much during poregnacy? Thee female anotomy (back troubles) is just not designed correctly to carry new life.
Pretty unintelligent design, really.
Wonder how much response (and what) you'll get....
Well since you revived the thread ongelovige, I'll respond for your sake.
Women suffer during pregnancy and child-birth as a result of the curse inflicted upon mankind by the sin of Adam and Eve. It is reasonable to conclude that childbearing would not have been so difficult before the fall.
Genesis 3:16 [God speaking]
To the woman he said,
"I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing;
with pain you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you."
And as for Monk's Q's:
1) DNA is evidence for Creation for a number of reasons. First the fact that even single-celled organisms posses so much DNA information to me underscores the fact that life itself must have been made rather than 'built-up' by random chance. Were it built up we'd expect single cells to contain insignificant amounts of DNA information compared to people, but we don't see this. A sequence billions of bits long dosn't just 'pop' out of some chemical soup. Second the 'design' is so simple yet powerful. Much like the solar system - perfectly suited to sustain and promote life; that indicates design to me, but not to an evolutionist.
2) The fact that galaxies further away move faster is evidence that space is expanding in all directions. There are many instances in the Bible (17 I believe) where God is described as 'stretching out the heavens.' Now this is obviously an interpratation, but that could well be referring to expanding space.
Isaiah 4:22
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
3) I'm not entirely certain. However, the Lord left the Earth and our universe to be self-governing, in the sense that the laws of science define our universe and reality, and the universe adheres to those laws. Gravity, time, etc. govern the universe and make it suitable for life. I would say that it stands to reason that once God set those scientific laws into motion, nature would then have 'taken its course.'