Disabled Children are God's punishment :: Free Realms

And now for some real science.

IVF children are at greater risk for diseases.

I guess that's God's punishment for circumventing his will that those couples not have children? :P

(Disclaimer, since some people here have no sarcasm meters: NO I do not believe that a benevolent God would punish someone for trying to have kids via IVF. However, the article raises a sad point - the diseases may be a result of the issues that caused the infertility in the first place. Evolution is a lot more heartless than God.)

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#105 Feb 24 2010 at 8:56 PM Rating: Excellent

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catwho wrote:

And now for some real science.

IVF children are at greater risk for diseases.

I guess that's God's punishment for circumventing his will that those couples not have children? :P

Hah! Well, disclaimer or not, to someone who believes that God is omnipotent and omniscient, then everything that happens is "God's will". Whether his will is done in this case as as punishment or not is subject to debate (and arguably, we're not supposed to know either).

Which I suppose brings up the more realistic response to the original quoted bit. The real problem with that guys statement (don't even remember who the hell it was) is that only God is supposed to punish and only God choses who or why. It's not for us to speculate as to whether God punished someone or why, but he does so anyway. Which is arguably a sin of pride all by itself...

I was mainly just annoyed at the illogic of several follow on statements. Don't confuse that with agreement with the guy quoted in the OP

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