If the God described in the Bible, who designed the organisms listed above, exists, drowning children (Gen. 7:21-22), waging ideological wars of attrition (Deut. 20:16-17), stoning disobedient sons (Deut. 21:18-21), owning slaves (Lev. 25:44-46), keeping virginal war prisoners and massacring the rest (Num. 31:17-18), executing rape victims if they don't cry out (Deut. 22:23-24), hating your family (Lk 14:26), etc. are obligatory if He so desires. It's obvious why evolutionists would reject the concept of God and objective Biblical morality for their quaint, humanistic notions of "equality," "justice" and so forth. Belief that we came from a molecular soup (or "magic clay", like that really silly Cairns-Smith hypothesis claims) naturally leads to such insubordination.Indeed. Stupid evilutionists.But the woeful immorality of evolutionists isn't the subject of this essay; whether they can account for the magnificent, highly refined systems found in nature is. They can deny their maker all they want, but their "scientific" hand-waving rings hollow, for the evidence screams for itself, so to speak. Which is more reasonable to believe? That all these incredibly complex, purposeful designs, painstakingly crafted for the brilliantly-executed infliction of pain and death, are the result of a blind, totally indifferent natural process, or the culmination of the master plans of the most devious (and inspired) engineer ever to exist?
To paraphrase William Paley (Natural Theology), if you're walking along and find a finely crafted Iron Maiden, with fresh blood stains on it, no less, do you suppose it was put together by chance, or an Intelligent Designer?
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