XPost: alt.atheism, alt.talk.creationism   
   From: Budikka1@netscape.net   
      
   The twelve days of Xmas actually start on Xmas day, but this is a   
   countdown to Xmas showing why the young-Earth creationists are clueless.   
      
   Consider the cuckoo.  Thus is fraud at its worst, and according to the   
   creationists, their god created this creature as it is now, and turned it   
   loose.  The cuckoo lays its eggs in the nest of another species of bird.   
   The eggs look just like the bird's own eggs.   
      
   Different species of cuckoo prey upon different species of bird, and   
   their adaptation is remarkable.  This is how evolution works.   
      
   The problem for the creationists is that they have, as usual, no   
   explanation as to why what they claim is a loving, just, and fair god   
   would even consider creating a species which preys on others in this   
   manner, a free-loader, laying its eggs in the nest of others so it has to   
   do no work.   
      
   When the cuckoo hatches - which it typically does before the birds own   
   eggs hatch - it "murders" the other birds by pushing their eggs out of   
   the nest so it gets all of the adoptive mother's attention.  The   
   creationist god created these birds too dumb to really figure out what   
   happened.   
      
   Is that the kind of "loving", "long-suffering" god you want to worship?   
   One how not only allows injustice, but who deliberately creates it?  Is   
   this even the kind of a jerk of a god you want to believe in?   
      
   Even if this god were real and not patent fakery, you could count me out   
   of that kind of worship.   
      
   Budikka - highlighting the 'mental' in fundamentalism.   
      
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