A Taboo Subject for a Neophyte Blogger~God

     A backsliding agnostic like myself has no business talking about the existence of God, especially to a believer.  But that is just the sort of conversation I had with my friend Laura Miniel last Saturday at the Crescent Moon.   Laura can speak to her views about a Supreme Being without her voice cracking with emotion.  I can share my doubts gently without badgering.  After all a self-declared agnostic is already admitting he doesn't know anything for certain.
     Laura and I agreed on elements of apparent design in the human body(design sort of implies a Designer does it not?):  The 23 amino acids needed to sustain a living organism of which the human body has 23, the mulitudinous things that must happen simultaneously at birth for the fetus to survive separated from its mother, reproduction, the human eye,  the recuperative and self-repair capabilities of the human body.  Laura even explained how the DNA molecule itself has a self-correcting feature.
     Of course giving birth or having impregnated someone does not make a person a mother or father.  We expect nurturing, providing for and protecting.  Some would also include training, guiding and warning.  This is where I raised my mild counterpoint.  How could a loving God/Father/Creator stand idly by as 2,500 of his children died in a tsunami wave without at least shouting "Watch out!"  A human father not protecting his children from obvious danger faces criminal charges in many countries.   Of course, if the Creator/Father/God is not omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent as some claim, I understand.  He wasn't there, didn't know about it, couldn't deal with it.
     Laura nodded.  It had been almost an hour since Ben Neece and the guys had finished their set covering "Born on the Bayou" by CCR.  Juan Antonio Garza, Jr. was now hitting the drums with one of his protest songs.