To the editor:

In 1/18/2023, the Independent, published a 700 word OpEd from Mr. Phil Drietz, of Delhi, M. He states scientific facts about the Chicxulub crater impact in Mexico. He omits the date of the impact, 65,000,000 years ago. Dritez’s world-view is a 6000 year old earth. Dritez describes the impact’s effects. Hethen shifts to claims of a world-wide flood, Noah’s flood.

Refuting Dritez’s claims would need over 300 words, the Editorial Letters limit. But, consider the logic.

Christians claim God is eternal, all-knowing, omni-present, and all-powerful. All-knowing means knowing the past, present, and future. All-powerful means being able to do anything. God created the universe, and other feats.

Noah’s flood, according to the Genesis 7, KJV, was intended to destroy earth’s evil humans. “And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.”

Here is the problem. Christians believe God is all-knowing. He knew what humans would do when he created them. God knows everything. God can not be surprised at what humans do because He knew everything they would do from the beginning. When God created Adam and Eve, he knew what they and their descendants would do. It was the way He created them. God also would have known that He would destroy them. If God is all-powerful, why not create humans who would not be evil and not need destroying?

Did God create humans who would go bad so He could destroy them? If God knew what evil humans would do and still created, is it humans who are evil or the God who created them?

Harold Shuckhart

Minneota