The Problem of Evil (was Re: [extropy-chat] Re: John Wright Finds God)

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Brett Paatsch <bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> > i.e.. How could evil come to be in a world created
> by an omnipotent
> > loving God? 
> 
> Why do birds kick their children out of the nest?
> Why do devout
> catholic women who repeatedly miscarry keep trying
> to have children?
> 
> Why do transhumanists keep trying to create more
> extropy when every
> such act causes more entropy in the world? It is
> because the net
> benefits of trying are greater than not trying at
> all.

Ah, but birds, catholic women, and transhumanits have
to work within the limits of the world they find
themselves in.  God is presumed to be the one who
created, and can edit, those limits.