Who knows, maybe Ron and others will have more opportunities to claim un-natural disasters are increasing in frequency and severity as time goes on after all, but only if they resort to the trivial and well-worn argument that god allows satan to deceive men who used their curiosity, intelligence and creativity to solve problems that their curiosity, intelligence and creativity got them into in the first place, which god knew is what would happen even before it happened, so satan is doing god's will and why should we have to pay the price for being the pawns in the game (the theodicy consideration)
"It's humans, not biblical downpours, that have raised the Mississippi River water level 10 to 15 feet higher in the past 100 years", page 2 in
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/07/03/floods/index1.html and related stories at the bottom of the page.
P.S. Isn't the title of this thread a tautology?
