A Perfect Being Can Exist

If I understand my opponent"s argument correctly, it is that the "Creation" is perfect because the "Creator" is perfect. However, if this is true, there are countless flaws in this understanding. I will point out 3. 1. The Orbit of the Planets This was in fact a major crisis for the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th Century. During this time, Kepler formulated that the motion of the planets around the sun was not circular, but elliptical. This was, at the time, considered heretical because God"s creation was supposed to be perfect; however, if the motion of the planets around the sun were elliptical, that would imply an imperfect creation. Therefore, because the motion of the planets around the sun is elliptical, God"s creation is not perfect. 2. The Earth"s Shape The Earth"s shape is not a sphere; it is more flat than a sphere at the poles, and is bulging at the equator. This implies that the Earth"s is not a perfect sphere. Therefore, because the Earth"s space is not spherical, God"s creation is not perfect. 3. The Problem of Evil This is my main point. "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" " Epicurus. This is the problem of evil in a nutshell. If evil exists, then the creation must be imperfect. The main problem is the point of "unjustified evil", or evil that is brought on innocent people. Such examples would be Breivik"s massacre in Norway in 2011 that killed over 70 children, Hurricane Sandy in which over 100 people died, and any crime where someone innocent is victimized. The existence of this type of evil should not be around in a "perfect creation". As Charles Bradlaugh explains: The existence of evil is a terrible stumbling block for the theist. Pain, misery, crime, poverty confront the advocate of eternal goodness, and challenge with unanswerable potency his declaration of Deity all-good, all-wise and all-powerful. Evil is either caused by God or it exist independently; but it cannot be caused by God, as in that case he would not be all-good; nor can it exists hostilely, as in that case he would not be all-powerful. If all-good he would desire to annihilate evil, and continued evil contradicts either God's desire, or God's ability, to prevent it. Evil must either have had a beginning or it must have been eternal, but according to the theist, it cannot be eternal, because God alone is eternal. Nor can it have had a beginning, for if it had it must either have originated in God, or outside God; but according to the theist, it cannot have originated in God, for he is all-good, and out of all goodness evil cannot originate; nor can evil have originated outside God, for, according to the theist, God is infinite, and it is impossible to go outside of or beyond infinity.1 Therefore, I conclude with this argument: 1.If God exists, then he is necessarily omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent (by definition). 2. If proposition 1 is true, then unjustufied evil will not occur. 3. However, unjustified evil does occur. 4. If evil exists, than the creation is imperfect. 4. The Imperfect Creation Summarized If God is all knowing and all powerful then why did It create such an imperfect creation such as humankind? Any half decent mechanical engineer will tell you that if you designed the human skeleton that you would place the spinal column centrally within the rib cage as opposed to its current cantilever position. The reason for the cantilever design is due to our evolutionary past when we walked on all fours (such as dogs) in which the cantilever design is superior. The result of this imperfect cantilever design is that hundreds of thousands of people suffer acute back pain. Why did God design the human "cooling system" as it is? Humans sweat so much in a hot climate that they continually need water to replenish that lost through perspiration. The hairless human is so useless in cold climates that they would die within minutes without clothing. Why did God design the lower intestine wall lining so that it is unfinished? Why did God design the eye so poorly that it has had to undergo over forty macro redesigns since its first configuration? Why did God combine the breathing passage with the eating and drinking passage? This necessitated the introduction of an epiglottis to prevent choking (1,000s choke to death every day worldwide). Other mammals do not have this dangerous arrangement. Why do men have nipples? Why combine the excretory organs with the reproductive organs " thereby causing high risk of infection (particularly high for females during menstruation)? Why is the female clitoris in entirely the wrong position to give her sexual satisfaction during the standard positions of sexual intercourse? Why have females got such a narrow birth passage " necessitating severe deformation of the baby's head during birth? (distress for both baby and mother). Why do we have nails on our toes? The why-list is endless! An interesting corollary of evolution is that it tells us there is no single perfect solution to survival. Life on Earth consists of a variety of species, which can be summarised into 5 key life forms: 1) bacteria, 2) algae, 3) molds, yeasts and mushrooms, 4) animals and 5) plants. Each of these 5 classifications are further subdivided. For example, animals are cold or warm blooded, mammal, reptilian, invertebrate, and so on. Some animals have eyes, while others survive quite happily without the need for eyes. Those animals with eyes have different types of eye, such as the human eye versus the fish eye or fly eye. A human couldn't last a single day in a desert without water, whereas scorpions survive without the need for mains water on tap. This is evolution: different species for different environments, with no single species being ideally suited for all environments. Implying that no life form is perfect. Indeed, all life forms are highly imperfect. Fine if you believe in evolution but far from valid if you believe in a perfect creator of everything. We cannot understand why an all knowing and all powerful being would create such an imperfect universe. If God truly was/is all knowing and all powerful and knew that It could not create a perfect universe then it would firstly not even attempt creating a universe and secondly would destroy an imperfect universe. The fact that we currently exist in an imperfect state implies that God is not all knowing and not all powerful and does not exist.2 Works Cited: 1 http://www.ccel.org... 2 http://www.god-does-not-exist.org...