The convenient argument of "conveniency."

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then He is not omnipotent. Is He able, but not willing? Then He is malevolent. Is He both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is He neither able nor willing? Then why call Him God?"
-Epicurus

A question posed to me on one of my youtube videos (Re: Children of a stupid God, URL @ bottom)...oh.... a few weeks ago maybe. Anyways, I really have no answer to that question, EXCEPT that God has promised to come back and destroy evil. And since He is God, I will take Him at His Word.

Q:When?

A:I have no Idea.

Q:Why doesn't He come sooner?

A:He does not want to yet.

Fairly straightforward I would say. After all God is under no moral obligation to come and clean up the mess mankind has made. The fact that He is willing to do it at all is infinitely praiseworthy in itself.

Now comes the strange part. Another user said of my explanation, "thats a fairly convenient answer, don't ya think??" Yes it is a convenient answer, because it happens to be the only one I have (or will until Christ returns). I think though that he implied it was a faulty argument, simply because it was convenient. Now I ask the ubiquitous world of bloggers and thinkers, since when has the conveniency of an argument, automatically disqualify it? If it did the Big Bang would be out the window instantly, because what is more convenient than to say, "a infinitesimally small piece of matter(that we don't know the origins of) exploded creating everything we see... oh and this is a proven fact because we are here."

The Oort cloud is another great example. The Oort cloud is basically an explanation of how "long term" comets (Halley's Comet) still exist BILLIONS of years after the big bang. Here is an address to an explanation of Oort's cloud

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud

Now if you didn't read that article, you missed detailed drawings, detailed "facts," etc. The only problem is...The Oort cloud

has never been seen! It's just a theory! And a darn convenient one at that.

The evolution of the human eye is still a mystery, and at this point in time is logically impossible. Atheists say "it happened

and thats the end of it!" That is very convenient.

Now, This Oort cloud has never been seen, the Big Bang was not witnessed by any scientists, a valid theory for Abiogenesis

has yet to be revealed, a valid explanation for the evolution of the human eye is still missing, yet atheists and the like still

believe in them... and yet some fervently deny the existence of God. Now that is some great faith there! (If Christians had

the same level of faith as an Atheist, we could move mountains!)

My vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKS_RxAupWk