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Yesterday I was comparing the size of our earth with other heavenly bodies:

I showed that if the earth were liquid , we could pour 1,300,000 earths into a volume the size of our sun. Big as our sun is, it's still small compared to the star Arcturus which is 25.7 times the diameter of the sun. But Arcturus is still a baby compared to the star Pistol. To put this all in perspective, if Pistol is a soccer ball, Arcturus is a BB and the sun is a grain of sand. Oops! What happened to earth? Since we would need 100 earths to equal the size of the grain of sand representing the sun, earth just disappeared!

One thought leads to another and that got me thinking. What was God doing for all those billions of years before he created our tiny planet? And then us? A tiny microcosm on a tiny microcosm. It's not like he didn't have billions of years to think about it. The question needs to be asked; how could an omniscient and omnipotent being, having all that time to plan ahead, screw the thing up so badly.

I don’t want to appear immodest, but if I was all powerful and all knowing and had billions of years to design something in my image (he already had the blueprint) I’m pretty sure I could have come up with a better model. And here's the really crazy thing. It appears that after he scrapped the first model and drowned everybody, he left the design flaws untouched.

Let me explain.

1. Our eyes are wired wrong. Our optic nerve is on the wrong side. The openings required to accomodate the wiring in order to make its way to the“brain” side, leaves us with a blind spot. Squid and octopuses are wired correctly. They don’t have blind spots. How come squid and octopus got a better system? Even the lowly bat gets around in the dark much better than we do. Apologist will inadvertently make my case when they quickly point out, “Yeah, but that’s because they emit little squeaks which bounce off things…sorta like radar”. Exactly. One might think if god could give squid and octopuses perfect eyesight and outfit bats with radar, he would have had the foresight to do the same for us, his most favored creature. The wiring should have been a no-brainer and he had an eternity to think about it.

2. Our gums deteriorate and our teeth rot out. This causes untold pain and misery and dental bills that could balance the national budget. Sharks have the ability to grow replacement teeth. How come we were not blessed with this advantage? Does god love sharks more than he loves us? What was he thinking?

3. Our ears appear to be designed by a mad scientist. It has this crazy quilt of parts with names like hammer, stirrup, cochlea, semicircular canals, and tiny hairs called cilia. If this stuff doesn’t work properly we go stone deaf or at best, get dizzy and nauseous. And when it all gets stopped up due to colds it hurts like hell when the pressure changes. I cannot tell you the times during my career as a Captain with Delta Air Lines that I descended the airplane early (at great fuel cost to the company) because some poor soul was suffering horrible pain due to a blockage in the Eustachian tubes. (yeah they are involved too) Surely god knew we would someday have airplanes and these tubes would be infected and swell shut and the ear drums couldn't equalize the changing pressure because of it.

4. When Jesus claimed the mustard seed was the smallest seed on earth thing, he evidently had no knowledge of the aids virus. 15,000 aids viruses would easily fit on a mustard seed with room to spare. And this teeny little virus has grown enough to kill over 25 million of us, making it not only one of the smallest, but most dangerous predators humans have ever encountered. Since 1981, when the aids virus started, human deaths from sharks, alligators, snakes, lightening strikes, drowning, avalanches, floods, car accidents and airline crashes combined, would not come close to the 25 million deaths caused by aids. Condoms could have prevented millions of these deaths but as the Catholic church has warned, God doesn't like condoms. If a guy wants a one way trip to hell..just use a condom! And of course the woman is just as guilty.

And how many of us know about the flu virus that god gave us. Over 60 years before we ever heard of aids, a flu virus starting in 1918 killed between 50 to 100 million of his crowning creation, nearly half of them innocent children, making it the deadliest natural disaster in human history. Don't believe it? Go into any older cemetery in any small to mid size city in the U.S. and take a look at the headstones. You will be astonished at the number of 2-3-and 5 year old names on the markers. The authorities buried people in New York City in mass graves.

All this doesn't include those tiny little parasites that have killed hundreds of millions of us, like typhoid and yellow fever. We have dominion? Over what? Man is the only animal I know of that, if dropped buck naked almost anywhere on the planet, could not survive.

5. And of course this indelicate business about sex. Somehow, god in making us in his image, managed to place our sex organs right next to the place where our excrement comes out. What civil engineer in his right mind would put a playground right in the middle of a waste disposal dump? Which begs another question: Why would god need an anus; or for that matter, a penis.

Most people are unaware that over 99% of all species of life that ever existed are now extinct. Intelligent design? How intelligent is that? If 99% of all airplanes crashed and burned, nobody would set foot in one of the damned things. Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. We have to ask…how come god created all these creatures and then wiped them out? I happily agree with Woody Allen's remark,“The best thing I can say about God was that he was an under achiever”.

Gen 2:31 "God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good."

Ummm....not really. That line sounds more like something you would have heard from an Edsel salesman way back in 1948.