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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
There we differ as to recommendation. Religion causes too many fights/wars/murders over which is the true deity.
Did a deity create Covid? But the design behind life seems to me to be too clever to have been mere evolution. So, to my mind, something must have designed all this - but is now dead.
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I’ve seen Prometheus. It wasn’t that good.
Philosophical question for you though: if a finite intelligence created life on Earth, what created that finite intelligence? “Deity” solves this problem by postulating a whole other class of existence, one that is fundamentally different to, and greater than, the created universe. In this other existence there is no beginning or ending - no birth and no death, which are attributes of the creation, not the creator.
Sorry we’re veering right off topic …. to try to bring it back, Chrisianity’s concept of the fall attributes imbalance in the entire ecosystem to humanity’s moral corruption. Thus in some way covid (and all viruses) are a consequence of human failing. Not the existence of viruses necessarily, but their tendency to damage or destroy host organisms rather than live harmoniously with them.