the illuminator 81 wrote: "The earth is such a fantastic place! It's so clear that there must be a God who designed this inviting, welcoming planet. I mean, who doesn't want to live on a thin wafer of rock on a giant hot ball of lava, where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions can happen at anytime. Yes the loving Jehovah provided us with a gigantic mass of water to drown in, should we ever feel the need. Most of the earth is covered in water, where we can't live at all, but at least we can swim in it! And who doesn't love swimming? And even if we don't want to drown, the multitude of cyclones, hurricanes and tsunami's can visit this exciting experience on us when we least expect it. We're so lucky with the large amounts of hostile territory where man can barely survive. I mean who doesn't want to camp out in the Sahara, or have a nice picknick on the north pole, or build a lovely little cabin somewhere in the himalayas?"
This is something that causes me to doubt the existence of a benevolent Creator too. The earth is not a very hospitable place to live. Look at the situation in the US South during April, or in Japan a couple months back. To me, the earth seems more likely to be a place where life arose and had to gut it out for survival, flourishing because of its ability to adapt, not because the planet was just sitting pretty and waiting to host it.
