The Second Fundamental Theological Discrepancy of God's Omnipotence

With respect to the previous article I had posted, “God’s Self-Effacing Leadership of Humankind”, wherein I had attempted to reveal a fundamental theological paradox regarding Omni-morality, I now would like to take a step further from this. I would like to use that argument to the advantage of another, and this being the supposed omnipotence of God in terms of his obvious cruel acts on his creation.

The claim that God is all perfect, that he (pronoun use for the sake of convenience) must be omniscient, omnipotent, and at the same time omni-moral, seems to me collectively paradoxical.

As many scholars, scientists, and researchers have seen, Evolutionary Biology has made great advances regarding the explanation of speciation and biological evolution through natural mechanisms – that which are explained through mathematical modeling ( such as Game Theory) and by other fields seemingly non-related such as Neurology, Psychology, Biophysics etc. The majority of great scientists of the National Academy of Sciences have reason to believe that evolutionary theory is a much better, testable, observable, scientific theory than intelligent design. As such, laymen are obliged to take the position of acknowledging their scholarship in the relevant fields, and at least believe that evolutionary theory be true – based on the exponential growth of reports and research papers that all purportedly recognize Evolutionary theory’s potential for the biological sciences.

If we all believe Evolutionary Theory to be true – and most scientists and scholars do – than what this means is that complex life forms came about through natural mechanisms determined by the process of punctuated and graduated biological evolution. We must also therefore recognize that by biological evolution, we mean the ‘creation’ of species and their mass extinctions – and mass extinctions we do see, as displayed in the fossil record.

So it is interesting to contemplate the following: If God were omniscient, and knew that his creation of humankind by the initiation of biological evolution will result in mass extinctions (not to mention the resultant effect of 75% of all humans to be condemned to eternal destruction), could he not have simply created humankind through another method, since he is, after all, omnipotent? What leader, who knows the dire consequences of his plan he had designed but yet goes ahead and carries it out, expects that the sheer volume of victims who are being bounded by this plan still respect him as their leader? A God that condemns his creation to their detriment through his divine plan seems philosophically unsound, since God must necessarily be perfect in every conceivable way.

What “it was in his will to do so”? What “he must have plans laid out that which we humans cannot conceive of”? What Free Will? No matter these ad-hoc rebuttals, the fundamental discrepancy of omnipotence with regard to omni-morality and mass or/and eternal destruction still exists. The discrepancy lies before the creation of things, before the existence of something and nothingness, and before the non-existence of nothingness itself. God made a decision, if he exists, that is philosophically contrary to what theology expects of him. This is why a discrepancy exists.