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Originally Posted by Thinks Design
What makes you think that the races were not designed? It seems a remarkable co incidence that black people have skin designed to deal with ultraviolet light better than most people have or that the Chinese just happen to be better at martial arts to make up for being short or the Nordic races are bigger because they need to move boulders in the snow or that white people make better scientists because they need to invent things.
Don't you think it is a bit too much of a coincidence, don't you think?
The logical answer is that we were designed by God.
QED
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You seem to be saying that God intended Canaan's descendants, of which currently there are over a billion, to be cursed from the outset. That means He required Ham to creep around looking in the tents, looking for whatever it was he actually found, doing whatever it was he actually did and remember Noah was asleep at the time but knew when he woke up what Ham had done, just so that Canaan would be cursed?
Is that part of your design?
Africa was completely unpopulated at the time and although a few people could have travelled there in the years from creation to the flood there would be virtually none in the rift valley or on Madagascar. I would say none at all until the degenerated forms of humanity arrived but am being generous to you on the point. For your theory to hold water God designed in degeneration from
day 6.
GENESIS 1 . KJV . CONTEXT . the cause of degeneration is covered here
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Still with your theory, what happens next? Things run along on automatic pilot? From Adam to Noah, from Noah to Ham, all part of the design despite warnings from God what not to do but which they did anyway except Noah obviously who was worth saving more than a drowning baby. God could have plucked a baby from the water before oxygen deprivation, another part of your design model, set in. God did not do so because the baby was corrupt. It's every imagination and thought of its heart only evil continually. This caused God grief. Why would a perfect God design something to cause Himself grief? For that to work He'd need to be sitting there in Heaven thinking: "What's missing in my perfect existence? Is it worms? Is it megalomaniacal narcissism? No ..wait ..it's coming ..ugh ..ugh ..yes I can feel it ..nearly there ..INSUFFICIENT GRIEF! That's it! I need grief! Phew! Really takes it outa ya but I have a cunning plan. With lots of dead babies."
GENESIS 6 . KJV . look up
5 GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Your design charade isn't fooling anyone. It's just another word for evolution. At what point did the design flip over to automatic pilot? At the explosion of population III stars? When little bubbles developed a membranous outer layer in the primeval slime? Did God get as far as pterodactyls and say "OK, that's enough, they can just evolve from here on.." which would be a funny sort of God? I don't think so. The Bible doesn't say so. And The Bible is not silent. The Bible supports creation, the corruption of Creation by sin and the subsequent deterioration of everything from plants to animals, from perfect Adam to nasty Eve and all their children. All of whom, except Noah, caused God grief. Not a piece of clockwork but wilful disobedience. All the way to Canaan.
Design proponents should stop lying and start reading The Bible.