By all rights, those who believe in Intelligent Design should also believe in Malevolent Design.
Malevolent Design, simply put, is the secondary negative quality that one should see if one first sees intelligence.
If there be a master designer then one should be able to gauge how it feels about its creations by the interaction between them. For example, malaria...
You would think that fetuses, babies, children and pregnant women would be high on the list of favored individuals for a deity's protection. I know that my personal idea of what makes a good parent, on a basic level, would be simply to care about its children. Designing pathogens to infect, torture and kill them doesn't qualify. The World Health Organization estimates "that each year 300-500 million cases of malaria occur and more than 1 million people die of malaria. About 1,300 cases of malaria are diagnosed in the United States each year."
Considering how advanced we are as a species, with all our technology, we still have not eradicated this parasite. That's great design!
(via Debunking Christianity)
From the J-Walk Blog
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