Southerner Weighs In
When I was in college in Greenville, SC, I was accepted as an intern at a local behavioral health hospital for kids. It was a particularly challenging time, because these kids were suffering with things like Fetal Alcohol Syndrome–challenges they had absolutely no control over. Some had genetic conditions, and I began to ask myself, “How is there a God who would make a system where people are born with these terrible afflictions?”
I didn’t want to bring these concerns home with me. I would rather have been the kind of person who could get home from a place like that and return to mindless meaninglessness, staying up late and looking at a discount displays homepage like woot.com. But, being a person of relative integrity, I kept struggling with these issues throughout the summer, and I still struggle with them today.
How does this relate to evolution and creationism? Easy. If God is involved directly in the system, if God in fact created the system, then He can be held theologically accountable for the way it works. If, however, there is no God, and if the world works on a random basis, then horrible genetic disorders are almost easier to accept. They’re still terrible, but if they’re random, at least no benevolent, omniscient and omnipotent God allowed them to happen.
If it matters, I had the same inner turmoil when I watched The Land Before Time. If God loves man and wants man to prosper, why would He also put dinosaurs who eat man in the world?
Creationism all the way.
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