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Cofty: are you saying that unless humans were created, their well being is no more important than that of a seal?
No, that's not what I said. Perhaps i wasn't very clear. Let me try again:
You sit on your sofa and you turn your television on the National Geographic channel. You watch as an orca slaughters a seal; a lion preys on a gazelle; a baby elephant gets trapped in a mud pool and dies; an Orix is killed by a crocodile; a cheetah cub dies of thirst during the dry season.
I ask: Are you a moral monster because you're watching those animals suffer and die and you do absolutely nothing but perhaps feel pitty for them? Are the nat Geo film crew guys moral monsters because they are literally there at the scene, and they do nothing to interfere with nature? Or do you simply consider it the natural course of things, the so called circle of life?
Now, my question to you, then, is: In a scenario of theistic evolution, why on earth would you qualify God as a moral monster if, by your own definition, the Homo Sapiens isn't but a sophisticated animal? Why does it seem so abhorrent to you this notion of a God that watches but doesn't interveine when you, yourself do exactly the same thing when you watch that Nat Geo documentary?
Bottom line, if humans weren't created, if they are nothing but sophisticated animals, why are you ascribing to God the quality of a moral monster, when God doesn't de facto exist in your scenario? That's what i don't get it with your question.
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