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:# Overpopulation is not a problem.  The problem is a lack of food production in some countries, due to corrupt governments and worldviews that don't encourage productive effort.  Believing in the God of truth would get rid of corruption, and believing in the God that tells us that we should do a fair day's work would increase productive effort.
 
:# Overpopulation is not a problem.  The problem is a lack of food production in some countries, due to corrupt governments and worldviews that don't encourage productive effort.  Believing in the God of truth would get rid of corruption, and believing in the God that tells us that we should do a fair day's work would increase productive effort.
 
:Would it bring water to the desert, cure plant blight, bring rain to the drought areas and dryness to the floods?  Starvation isn't always the result of corruption and laziness. [[User:Czolgolz|Czolgolz]] 22:59, 13 May 2007 (EDT)
 
:Would it bring water to the desert, cure plant blight, bring rain to the drought areas and dryness to the floods?  Starvation isn't always the result of corruption and laziness. [[User:Czolgolz|Czolgolz]] 22:59, 13 May 2007 (EDT)
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:::Apart from Divine intervention to solve those problems (which should not be dismissed), then yes, those problems would remain.  But they wouldn't be the major problems that they are today if everything else was working properly.  [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 23:36, 13 May 2007 (EDT)
 
:# Believing in the Prince of Peace (Jesus) and following God's instruction to love one another, and to love our enemies (not that we'd have any left) would stop people starting wars with each other.
 
:# Believing in the Prince of Peace (Jesus) and following God's instruction to love one another, and to love our enemies (not that we'd have any left) would stop people starting wars with each other.
 
:# Preventable diseases exist because of people's lifestyles, whether they be immoral ones or related to my comments in point 1.  Leading moral lives as God expects would therefore eliminate preventable diseases.
 
:# Preventable diseases exist because of people's lifestyles, whether they be immoral ones or related to my comments in point 1.  Leading moral lives as God expects would therefore eliminate preventable diseases.
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