Did man create Aids to controll population growth of certain races or did God.It seems to kill off the humble?
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I don't know about that, but it certainly humbles those it affects.\n\nAIDS was created by the world--not God or man.  I am a Christian but do not subscribe to the misguided notion that God created AIDS to punish gays and drug users.  You may as well say God created leukemia to punish innocent children.\n\nAnd while human creation of AIDS is possible, I do not believe it some concious method of population control.  AIDS is an ongoing global epidemic and it has the coordinated effort of researchers worldwide working to stop it.  Instead of trying to figure out how it started, why not concentrate on how it will be finished?
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What about medicine?  Aren't we "interfering with evolution" whenver we try to cure someone of a disease or heal them?  What about vaccines?  What about insulin?  \n\nNot only that, aren't we "interfering with evolution" when we feed people who are starving in other countries?  If they can't get to the food, they should die, right?  Because "evolution" must go on...\n\nSigh.  I'm sorry I'm being sarcastic it's just that people who want heartless "natural selection" to be the governing force of our lives are trying to remove all vestiges of mercy and kindness from society.  \n\nDid you know Hitler used "natural selection" to justify the holocaust?  \n\nIn Mein Kampf, Hitler used the German word for evolution (Entwicklung) many times, citing "lower human types." He criticized the Jews for bringing "Negroes into the Rhineland" with the aim of "ruining the white race by the necessarily resulting ization." He spoke of "Monstrosities halfway between man and ape" and lamented the fact of Christians going to "Central Africa" to set up "Negro missions," resulting in the turning of "healthy . . . human beings into a rotten brood of s." In his chapter entitled "Nation and Race," he said, "The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel, but he, after all, is only a weak and limited man; for if this law did not prevail, any conceivable higher development (Hoherentwicklung) of organic living beings would be unthinkable." A few pages later, he said, "Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live."\n\nIf you believe this you are in awful company... Check out the link...
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God didn't create cancer, He created a world that was perfect.   When sin entered the world things started dying and decaying and getting old and diseased.   It wasn't God, it was satan and man.
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I think that people are retarded because of problems with their genetics, or because of bad choices mothers make while pregnant.  \nOriginally, when man was first created, there was no sin in the world and everything was perfect (spiritually, physically and genetically)  When sin entered the world, through the choices of original man) that began a downward slide (spiritually, physically, genetically) that we are continuing to feel the effects of today.   I hope I answered your question, if not, maybe read The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel, maybe that'll help
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I don't agree with that Zywei234(whatever) guy. He said other creatures worship god, but we humans have brains and we think......what other creatures besides humans worship god? And yes we could have flat hands but they're round... thats called evolution. Humans evolved to what they are today.\n\n Black people are darker because generations of Africans were exposed to the sun...The sun has UV rays which cause skin cancer....the more melanin in the skin the more protected you are from UV Rays.....more melanin=darker skin.\n\n White people,Asians,.....other races that were not in the climate conditions that Africans were exposed too(extreme uv rays) were in colder climates(seasons). Therefore they have longer hair to keep them warmer.\n\n  You can look up more evidence, but I know science can give you in your face answers with proof. Religion is vast. If God existed why would It allow all these different religions to exist? If God was really...God then why would it allow bad things to happen? \n\n   People kill people. People fear death. People created a happy place to ease their fears(heaven). People created a God to give reason to life.
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"So many religions": that just proves that Man's underlying need for religion is pretty common. Feelings of vulnerability, purposelessness, loneliness, and a need to belong are probably a universal part of the human condition. So Man created God (in his own image) to compensate for these shortcomings. \nWhich doesn't necessarily mean that Christians have got it all wrong, just soem of it!\nAnd no, they are not all Devil Worshippers. Only the Devil Worshippers are!
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If god exists, then he probably had a hand in starving those children.  In the past he hasn't been above killing innocent children.  He was upset at some Egyptians, so what did he do?  He killed the innocent Egyptians instead: the first born cute babies.
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You are correct the current growth rate of the world's population is unsustainable by any measure.  I wouln't be so quick to put the blame on religion, however.  It's hard to imagine living in a free country where there are some sort of authority telling you how many kids you can have.  It's a big problem.  \n\nThe part of the bible that says homosexuality is wrong also condones slavery and treating women as property.  I think it is sad that modern Christians cherry pick this homosexuality thing and hold it up as if it were something as important as what Jesus said, however they completely disregard the whole thing about a rich man having almost no chance to go to heaven, which scriptures said Jesus was extremely specific about.  \n\nModern christian belief is full of justifications and loopholes like the whole "love the sinner hate the sin" thing.  How many christians go to prison and tell the child molesters that they love them?  If you love the sinner, then how come it's ok to execute them?  Do you execute people you love?  In America Christians favor the death penalty more than any other group.\n\nThere are however, sects of christianity that are loving and caring and don't pick and choose what they like in the bible.  The salvationists (the salvation army) is one that comes to mind.  They are truly good people.
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People need to stop killing in the name of their god. Not only is war ravaging Africa but HIV/AIDS as well. The only way to stop it is to pray that the hearts of men change.
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Man will never be able to create a human.God won't allow it.They may be able to cure diseases using stem cells to create new functioning organs and that would be  a blessing.
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WHAT? God killed a load of people? Ive totally gone off him. What a git! Hopefully he learned to practise what he preached, i.e. not to kill people!
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First of all, God created us to be like apes, preferably chimps. Second of all, maybe he thought they looked like one of his best creations, so he made us to be be like them.
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I agree with you, I often wonder, in Africa for example where christianity is rising, why the pope still claims contraception is wrong when encouraging it would help stabilize the countries HIV/Aids epidemic and could also help the countries economy in the long run - having less children means the children they have are better fed, they can afford some sort of education as they have a couple of children to send to school. These children once educated could get better jobs and the cycle carries on. \nIf I was living in poverty I wouldn't have so many children as it is selfish - having them just because you want so many and your religion tells you to do so. They can not provide for them and it is cruel to the children who suffer starvation and a slow painful death in the name of religion.
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"On the other hand it is possible that human control over the machines may be retained. In that case the average man may have control over certain private machines of his own, such as his car of his personal computer, but control over large systems of machines will be in the hands of a tiny elite -- just as it is today, but with two difference. Due to improved techniques the elite will have greater control over the masses; and because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be superfluous, a useless burden on the system. If the elite is ruthless the may simply decide to exterminate the mass of humanity. If they are humane they may use propaganda or other psychological or biological techniques to reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity becomes extinct, leaving the world to the elite. Or, if the elite consist of soft-hearted liberals, they may decide to play the role of good shepherds to the rest of the human race. They will see to it that everyone's physical needs are satisfied, that all children are raised under psychologically hygienic conditions, that everyone has a wholesome hobby to keep him busy, and that anyone who may become dissatisfied undergoes "treatment" to cure his "problem." Of course, life will be so purposeless that people will have to be biologically or psychologically engineered either to remove their need for the power process or to make them "sublimate" their drive for power into some harmless hobby. These engineered human beings may be happy in such a society, but they most certainly will not be free. They will have been reduced to the status of domestic animals."\n\n(click the link to discover the author of this quote)
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According to the Bible, yes, Adam and Eve were the original parents of the entire human race.\n\nI like to think that God had a hand in ensuring that their children would not come out genetically flawed. I mean, if God could create the world out of nothing, I'm sure He can make his creations non-flawed for a while. After all, the circumstances sort of required some divine assistance to get His human project off the ground.\n\nThere was also a chapter in Genesis that mentioned that some angels of God came down to earth and took some beautiful women with them and had children with them. That might help explain some of the variety in the bloodlines.\n\nI kind of also think that Adam and Eve weren't the only humans God created. He could have very well created others concurrent or after Adam outside the Garden of Eden. Perhaps He spent more time in creating and developing Adam though. I don't know, it's just a hypothesis.\n\nYou also have to consider the fact that all the other humans aside from Noah and his family died in the great flood. That means that even if the children of Adam were flawed, it would be hard to prove since they all died at that point and stopped having descendants. Hopefully, by the time Noah comes around, there was enough of a variety in the blood mixes that genetic defects were few and diluted among the larger generation. Then the whole repopulating the earth would have to start again, but this time, with Noah and his family. Again, I like to think that God didn't stop creating at that point and helped out Noah and his family by preventing diseases and defects from developing in their inbred descendants.
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Because the very nature of God is love, he made man in order to have a being on which to shower the wonders of his glory. The existence of God is not, nor ever was, dependent on man's righteousness (or lack of...) Technically, he could've just let himself chill out in heaven for all eternity and not even bother with us. But that's divine love for you.\n\nAmazing grace.
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I would say we did not exist before God. We only existed in his mind as he was planning to create us.\nMen probably think they can rule somebody because they are strong enough to do it but not smart enough to understand they don't have to do it.\nI would say the contrary concerning about men avoiding household.