http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2009/08/25/tract-29-is-god-good/ Discussions of religion and ethics from an atheist perspective Mon, 06 May 2013 16:01:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2009/08/25/tract-29-is-god-good/comment-page-1/#comment-465 Zach Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:14:57 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/?p=1268#comment-465 “Can humans decide to blow up a dam they built?” Why not? “Can an artist destroy a painting after he’s sold it?” No, not after he’s sold it. But God never sold humanity, so that is not a good analogy. An artist is certainly welcome to make a work of art and then destroy it, provided it still belongs to him. “If a scientist created the DNA for a human from scratch and brought it to life, would the scientist have the right to kill the created person?” I would argue that the scientist does not have the right to kill the creation, but this is also a different scenario. A better one might be, if a scientist engineers a bacterium from scratch (as much as I don’t like comparing myself to a bacterium, compared to God I probably am one), does that scientist have the right to destroy that bacterium? There, I think, the answer is yes. (And, yes I realize that God is supposed to love us more than we would love a bacterium. Still, on a comparative scale, I feel like we hardly rank equivalent with God in the way a scientist creating a human being would rank equivalent with his creation.)

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