Monday, October 26, 2009

Shiloh

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Shiloh, the mermaid girl, died at age ten in October of 2009 of a rare congenital condition known as Sirenomelia. People with this affliction are born with fused legs, hence the mermaid label, and often die within days of birth due to complications from kidney and bladder development and function. Shiloh was an exception. If you were God would you intervene to fix this problem? Would you design your universe to avoid such cruel and unusual imperfections?
These things are easy to comprehend if we assume the universe had no direction and evolved to its present state without a purpose in mind. We can accept them readily as 'just the way things are' if no designing agent is conjured as a universal director.
Otherwise they would appear to be the expressions of a diabolical mind.

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