Corals Adapt to Global Warming

Chuck1318 writes "Articles in Nature and New Scientist indicate that corals are more adaptable to global warming than previously thought. Large areas of coral reefs had been devastated by bleaching due to the loss of the coral animals' algae partner, which is sensitive to changes in water temperature. Some scientists had projected that coral reefs would all be gone in 20 to 30 years. Now it is found that a more heat-resistant strain of algae is able to colonize the bleached coral, returning them to life."

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Re:Evolution works

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Why must God harm something to achieve his goal?

Why must you burn wood to get lye? It's a part of the process- the process that he set up.

Is it because he wants to? No, he is all-loving.

Of course it is because he wants to, ever hear of touch love where you hurt a kid to get him to stop doing something bad, or for that matter electroshock therapy?

Is it because he has to?

This question is more interesting- he's set up the rules so that he has to, why would you expect him to go outside the rules?

No, he is all-knowing and all-powerful. A tri-omni God must achieve its goal without causing harm.

What makes you so sure that it really is harm? Just because it feels like harm to you and me- does that make it so? I suppose you're the type of parent who claims they will never spank their kid either. Or say no to them. Or do anything that could cause them "harm". The same religious tradition that claims the three omnis (omniscience, omnibenevolence, omnipotence) for God also claims that God is first and foremost a *FATHER*. Not a Mother, coddling with love, but a Father, a disciplinarian. And how does a disciplinarian show love? With authoritarian dictates and an iron fist of punishment. Worse yet- he doesn't even let us know EXPLICITLY what those dictates are (a few thousand people over a few thousand years got together and wrote a book on what they thought those dictates were- but ended up with so many contradictions that you have to take their cultures into account to read it)- rather he punishes us in ways that seem quite mysterious at the time, pushing us towards a goal that we're not allowed (or maybe even able) to know. And for that- you would reject Him. You don't even know what the goal is- all you can see is your own pain, and you reject him on that alone.

A tri-omni God MUST cause harm- because to not cause harm would be to not be benevolent in the long run, you do more harm by being permissive with a child than by setting boundaries and rules. So therefore your basic premise is at it's root wrong- because a permissive parent is anything other than benevolent, therefore a permissive God is not benevolent.