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   From: smith.w@truth.gov.oc   
      
   Pro-Humanist FREELOVER wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > The discovery was in line with the normal course of sci-   
   > entific research, and does offer information of import   
   > reflecting on the so-called "perfect design" that many   
   > religionists assert accounts for their/our existence.   
   >   
   > Doesn't appear to be "perfect" to me. A close examin-   
   > ation of the historical record should be enough to con-   
   > vince anyone that the natural world is a high-risk envir-   
   > onment and that if a supposed 'loving' God is responsible   
   > for all this, he/it/she/they have a lot of explaining to do.   
   >   
      
   Why, a catastrophe every now and then may be perfect and   
   conducive for complex life forms.   
      
   Put a massive Jupiter in the system, have it suck in most   
   asteroids, so there won't be major disasters for eons.   
   But once in a while clean up the space and kill everybody   
   in sight except the fittest of the fittest. Dinosaurs out,   
   mammals (and cockroaches) to the front stage.   
   Religionists can argue that it was God's plan and a way   
   to create humans. Or maybe not...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)