But when something happens that undermines, or calls into questions such assumptions, a full blown crises of faith can occur. I'm going to guess that the theory of evolution is probably no big deal for them. But I also see a common thread between the anxiety of the creationists, and the feelings of betrayal and loss of relationship with God that these women have expressed. The creationist feels that if God did not create Life, all of Life, in one intentional act then Life itself has no meaning. The persons of whom Ms. English writes feel that their infertility has been intentionally willed by a Deity who's ways baffle, bewilder and anger them.
Life is life.
You take what it gives you, make the most of it, and deal with its downside as best you can. There is a part of me, in fact, that harbors these very sentiments. It's easy enough to dismiss the concerns of the creationists, and of those who feel betrayed in their religious beliefs for one reason or another, by saying that their real problem lies in their very arrested, and narrowly-focused concepts of God. That may well be true. I wouldn't argue the point.