stupid question

I’ve had many teachers/instructors start a class by saying that there are no stupid questions, though I’m pretty sure that when it comes down to it that most people don’t actually agree with that; I know my wife would tell you that I’m chock-full of stupid questions. And while I know the instructor is simply trying to say that if you don’t understand what is being taught, you are not asking a stupid question as long as it is relevant to the subject material. With that said…

I recently heard a question on the television show, Wife Swap (unfortunately, the show isn’t about what the name implies; and I’m sure the show’s creators thought they were incredibly clever). I had originally heard it asked by my cousin when I was around 14 years old. It is meant to be rhetorical, but if I ever hear someone ask something along the lines of, “Do you [really] think God would put anything on this Earth that would hurt us,” I’m going to answer it with something along the lines of, “Hell, yes!” The two (also thinking they were being clever) were trying to make the point that God made your body to be able to fight off anything harmful that isn’t man-made (viruses, bacteria, etc.), which doesn’t really make any sense to me at all. This family from Wife Swap would eat only raw food, including meat (again, thinking that the bacteria, being put here by God, wouldn’t hurt them), and would not use any man made chemicals for cleaning.

Let me break down my logic a bit here: do you actually believe the answer to that question is no? First, this isn’t really intended for atheists/agnostics, since the question doesn’t hold much weight to them in the first place; but for the rest of us, here’s a quote from Genesis 3:16-19:
16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

I don’t know about you, and either I’m retarded or interpreting the scripture wrong, but that (especially the thorns and thistles verse) sounds to me as though God did actually put things on Earth to hurt us. These crazy hippies need to stop thinking that God is some over-protective parent that’s going to shelter us from all harm.