Bear with me. There’s this kind of marsupial rat (called the yellow-footed antechinus) that lives in Australia. The female, like most marsupials, carries around her offspring in a pouch, and can have up to six in a litter, and has youngs twice a year. These numbers might well be needed. Why? the male arrives to maturity about one year. The mating is violent, and takes about 5 hours, after which the male dies from shock and hormonal imbalance. Let me stress this: the male, after living one year, gets laid – exactly once – under unpleasant circumstances, and then game over (heard on France Culture).

This is but one example. If God had created the world as is, out of the box, and evolution is all a lie, then we must imagine an all-powerful god that is cruel and perversely imaginative. He probably spent some time imagining such colourful little scenarios while grinning in his beard. Not that reassuring, is it ? I think i prefer to hold randomness and natural selection responsible for that one.

So creationists, i know you’re not amenable to logic or scientific evidence, but maybe this more emotional argument will get through.

Bill Hick’s take on this (similar, and much funnier):

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