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1) If there is an Intelligent Designer, then we are the things designed. Wouldn't that make it difficult for us to figure out what the Intelligent Designer's motives for various aspects of His design are?
Well, Everything would have to be designed. As we can show omething actually evolving, that is a problem for your assessment right there.
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2) The God of the Bible seems very aware of infectious diseases and various maladies (like blindness) and takes credit for them and uses them for HIS purposes (which might be vastly different from OUR purposes).
Meaning that God deliberately induce suffering and death onto innocent people. So God is now an antisocial psychopath? Or, as Soplar mentioned in the beginning, Is God there for the bacteria and germs? Are we merely substrate for diseases to thrive on? Regardless, it directly contradicts how Christianity has described God.
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3) The Bible also indicates that we live in a wrecked version of the original creation (wrecked via the Flood). If it's wrecked, I would naturally expect things to work imperfectly.
Given that the "original creation" was so flawed that God found it necessary to destroy it, your argument seems served by wishful thinking rather than facts. You will have to look at the data and see what conclusion you draw from it. It is no good to come up with the conclusion first and then trying to fudge the data to fit it as that is dishonest. And *THAT* certainly is prohibited in the Bible that bids us to not bear false witness.
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