Gods actions can be unappealing, but man's actions are far more dangerous to life on planet Earth!

The world is most definitely a provocative place. Lions and wolves chase, rip, and eat prey for nourishment. Sharks eat large fish, birds and mammals to sustain their lives; ocassionally they'll also chomp down on a human surfer or swimmer.Mother nature is interesting and can be very frightening. Humans, who consider themselves at the top of a respective food chain, eat plants and animals to stay alive. Entire farms of cows, turkeys, chickens, pigs, vegetables and fruits (and other goodies) exist to sustain the human population. We engorge on other living things to preserve our lives.Before a chicken is to be killed, defeathered, and ultimately consumed by a human consumer, it has usually invested a lot of work in preserving its life. Chickens that are held up uncomfortably (usually before they are to be killed) squawk at their discomfort, acknowleding the pain of being held up incorrectly. A chicken being chased by a human darts about in panic trying to escape its human captor. Even then, humans eat and eat and eat other organisms without hesitation. We do so because we must consume them to preserve our own lives. We are all guilty of this, yet no one I know - even my opponent in this debate - has killed himself in protest to defend the right to life of the once-living food items we eat.Long after this debate is through, my opponent will continue to eat and consume once-living food items all in the name of selfish self-preservation! Why, this act of evil cannot be overlooked. It is wrong. But my opponent will continue to do it, even in future acts of human courtship and love! He'll feed his lover, his future children, definitely himself, with once-living food items - all to preserve, evily, his own life!But perhaps I'm going too far with this. After all, living things must eat to metabolize energy, grow, and repair damage they accumulate over time. It's the way of nature.That organisms must take in organic carbon and other natural ingredients is undeniable. Organisms require amino acids and other organic ingredients (non-organic as well) to grow, reproduce and sustain their lives. The taking in of energy is a basic requirement of any living system to transform disorder into order. Plants and autotrophs get their energy from sunlight, but they require molecular ingredients from the surrounding environment to create sugar to use this energy. Animals and heterotrophs, who cannot fix carbon, take in vital amino acids from food items. Sugar is also obtained this way as a source of chemical energy.There are alternative trophic groups in the natural world, but all require the constant intake of environmental ingredients to live. Furthermore, it is surprising that death is an inevitable process that all living things will have to endure. But not a single living organism on planet Earth over the last 4 billion years (since life began) has evaded death. All living things at some point will die. A cell's DNA overtime accumulates errors - errors that cannot be fixed, even though there is machinary inside virtually all cells to correct most errors. However, mother nature is not perfect. Unfixable errors accumulate. Genetic instructions stop working, or cause the cell to construct too much of something. From its inception, the cell is doomed. Nature has not been able to create a life-form yet that is capable of eternal life - and it's been 4 billion years since the first life-form began!Our hope for eternal life just doesn't look promising.But does that make mother nature bad? Of course not! She is good because she tries desperately to PRESERVE a world with (provacative) biological life in it! Mother nature is inventive. God is creative.My opponent wants to portray God as the most evil, the most brutal, the most awful thing that ever existed!I disagree. In the previous ROUND I demonstrated that God is probably limited, based on how well our universe is constructed for biological life to develop in it (really, for matter to exist in it, and for electronic chemistry to be a feature in it!). The arguments for fine-tuning which virtually all scientists accept as true present a view that would make a hypothetical creator very limited in what it is capable of accomplishing.Bad things happen in our universe, because God is incapable. But over billions of years God has also created incredibly life forms that can struggle to survive in this difficult universe. They struggle, reproduce, and they overcome.Intelligent life has also emerged on this world. It exist, it creates, it loves. Yes, heterotrophs like humans must eat other living things to survive, and many of the experiences can be overwhelming and defeating to specific organisms. But will my opponent give up his life willingly in light of this? No.He'll live and continue to do the things he loves doing. He'll eat, he'll work, he'll have sex, and he may also have children. He'll move into a house (that was built over some other organism's land), and he'll eventually die - most probably not willingly, and not at his own hand. He obviously enjoys life enough to choose to continue experiencing it. That is the situation we are all in.God is most probably limited. Nature and evolution suggest it. The fine-tuning craftmanship of this universe indicates it. Is his universe unappealing? Yes. Are many of the experiences sad and gut-wrenching - yes. Is it evil?No. If it is evil, then we are all complicit in this evil, because we all take part in it willingly, with our habits and our actions. To call the universe evil is to call ourselves - by extension - evil.God is not evil. I disagree with my opponent. Bad things can happen in this universe with respect to human wants and human desires. Bad things happen when we break the law, when we overindulge, when we fail to respect the wants and needs of others! This is why morality and human laws exist.My opponent believes that God is immoral because the universe isn't ideal and perfect. Many people subscribe to this view. But his understanding of immorality is wrong. Immorality isn't determined by perfection. It's determined by necessity. "Thou shall not murder" because it invites legal issues in a human community that demands legal fairness. It's not immoral to eat a chicken, but it is immoral to kill a human, because of human wants and human laws!To call God evil is like calling a man evil because he must eat food to survive. It's silly. No. Evil only plays a part in choice, in actions that are not necessarily required. Humans engaged in a domestic fight don't have to kill each other, we have the intellect and the opportunity to avoid doing so. Should one of them murder the other that would be evil.But a shark must eat, and if it engorges on a human surfer we don't call the shark "evil". That would be silly.God is not evil. God is the most creative, the most provocative, the most hopeful thing that has ever existed. Even with its limitations, it has created a universe with life - life that wants to live!