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Based purely on the evidence.....

Every form of life which we know anything about is based upon the same (DNA/RNA) information system. That information system appears to be the work of a single pair of hands, the owner of which most people refer to as God.

Nonetheless, when you get to some kind of a point somewhere back about 100,000 or possibly even a couple of hundred thousand years on our own particular planet, what you see no longer looks like the work of just one pair of hands. There is no reasonable way to think that God would need to go through 50 or 100 species of horses or elephants to get to the one that he wanted. What you see looks more as if the engineering and reengineering of complex living forms had become a kind of a cottage industry with more than one pair of hands involved. There was a kind of a prehistoric arms race in which some new development in offense of weaponry (bigger teeth, bigger claws) would be succeeded by new defensive adaptations (dorsal spikes, spiked tails, armor plates...) and on, and on, and on...

There is likewise no rational way to believe that a decent God would create the creatures of Pandora's box (biting flies, scorpions, ticks, chiggers, fleas, mosquitoes) and every sort of thing like that.

Those things might represent some kind of an IQ test for the human race, at least at this point in time. We are close to having the wherewithal to rid the planet of them if we don't have that already, and we should damned well do it.

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