Lord Herbert wrote on Dec 2
nd, 2017 at 11:22am:
It's the main reason why years ago I tossed aside the proposition that this 'Creator God' was deserving of the respect and worship of moral humans.
'He' created a world in which survival has depended on Nature being red in tooth and claw, with all the terror, panic, and pain that this implies.
There may very well be a 'God', but deserving of 'worship'? ~ hardly. If anything, 'He' should be condemned for his callous disregard for the victims who suffer so painfully so that others further up the food chain can survive before they too find themselves being torn apart.
Speaking of which, I'm having a BBQ chicken for lunch.
There was a God a couple of weeks ago. It was exceptionally dry and hot and there hadn't been any rain in my area for weeks. Coming home a little earlier I had noticed a mother duck with an abundance of day old ducklings walking down my newly curbed and now busy street. I chose not to think about their fate. Ten minutes later - I heard this distressed quacking which went on relentlessly until it drove me out of the house to reluctantly investigate.
Across the road there was a young tradesman lying beside a drain while the mother duck hysterically screamed for help. This lovely young man told me that when the mother had jumped up on the curb to get to the grass - 5 babies didn't make the jump and fell into the drain.
The ducklings couldn't be reached and a young woman passing by had run home to get a tool to undo the grate. My contribution was a long handled net and a tub of water for the mother which was ineffective, but the perseverance of these young strangers and then the help of another very strong young man passing by - had all contributed to releasing the grate to access the drain. The tradesman jumped down into the drain and picked up the 5 ducklings and reunited them with their mother. She waddled off happily into a nearby backyard.
Regardless of this impressive rescue - I doubt the babies would have survived for very long after that. There are too many predators and fast cars around for most ducklings to live to maturity, but for that day - it was so good to see humane people in action. I couldn't have done what these people did.