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[Flux Capacitor]

Who created disease? The actual malaria virus, for example. Who created that?

[jimwalton]

Romans 8.20-22 suggest that human sin led to some kind of change in the nature of the cosmos itself. In science this has come to be recognized as the Second Law of Thermodynamics—the Law of Increasing Entropy. Every system becomes disordered, and mutations can be negative. It's what Adam & Eve put into the system (Gn. 3). Why would God curse the world like that? God didn't put a hex on it or change its character by magical means. Adam and Eve are the ones who cursed it; God merely expressed what was already a reality (Gn. 3.17-19). Nature reflects spiritual truth. In the innocence of the garden there was beauty. After the advent of sin there was disequilibrium and antagonism. The Fall of the cosmos portrays sin's horror for all to see. It reveals breakdown and bondage to decay (Rom. 8.21). It was due to the effect of man's sin.

If you know your science, you know how viruses work. They can mutate (microevolution) like crazy, and therefore there are millions of different types of them. Opinions differ whether they are even life or not. Evolutionary science doesn't know where or how they originated, and the Bible doesn't explain that either, only that the source of such things is the changes in the cosmos that came about by the sin of Adam & Eve.