Is God a prankster that planted evidence that leads to evolution...?

Question

...so that millions will have everasting suffering? Why exactly would a loving god make such a silly joke?

Answer 1

No and He wouldn't.

Answer 2

DNA dating—positive evidence that the fossils are young

by Carl Wieland

DNA, the complex molecule of heredity, can be observed in the laboratory to hydrolyse (break down) by itself. We have already commented in Creation magazine on the discovery of DNA in magnolia leaf fossils which are supposed to be around 20 million years old according to evolutionary assumptions, and suggested that this seemed rather unbelievable for a complicated molecule which progressively disintegrates all by itself (Vol. 13 No. 2, pp. 22–23).

Now Brian Sykes in the prestigious journal Nature clearly states that the rate at which DNA breaks down in the laboratory is such that after 10,000 years no DNA should be left. Writing about the magnolia leaf fossils (and others in the same ‘ancient’ layer found to also have DNA, including oak, cypress and tulip tree fossils) he says:

‘This means these compression fossils defy the prediction, from in vitro estimates of the rate of spontaneous hydrolysis, that no DNA would remain intact much beyond 10,000 years. What a good job not everybody knew that, grant reviewers included.’1

One can clearly see the following sequence of logic in evolutionary circles, which is important to keep in mind now that we are seeing more and more reports of ‘ancient’ DNA (and proteins).

1. In the absence of the repair machinery of a living cell, DNA breaks down, by itself, at an observed, measurable rate which would mean that after 10,000 years there should be none left.
2. Therefore, any specimen which has DNA still in it cannot be more than 10,000 years old.

However:
3. Intact DNA has been found in specimens which evolutionists ‘know’ to be millions of years old. (Because it is found in lavers which, according to the geological age-dating system, are assigned this age—17–20 million years in the case of the plant fossils mentioned here.)
4. If this system of vast ages is not correct, the whole evolutionary scenario collapses.
5. Therefore, the logical deduction in the first two points above (based on real science—that is, an observable process) must be flawed. There must be some special conditions which can somehow ‘hold up’ the breakdown of DNA quite dramatically.

Notice how point 3 brings in the assumption/belief that the vast evolutionary age assigned to these fossils is correct. That belief becomes the justification for discarding the prima facie implications of the laboratory data.

Creationists who maintain that none of the fossil-bearing layers are more than 10,000 years old can rightly view the finding of DNA in such layers as positive evidence for this assertion, until and unless there is some definite demonstration (apart from pre-existing belief in evolution’s long ages) of how any conceivable ‘special conditions’ can hold up the breakdown of this complicated, fragile chemical.

Answer 3

God is not a prankster. It is just people looking at a part of the evidence and disregarding the rest that is the cause of this cruel joke. If you want more informaiton, contact Answers in Genesis or Creation Research (John McKay) in Australia. They have some wonderful material that explains what you ask.

Answer 4

Yes, God has indeed got a sense of humour. After all, he created you, didn't he? Why would a loving God pull such a sick joke like that?

Answer 5

it was man that declared evolution was a sacraligious belief, not God. It is the same thing as considering someone a heretic for not believing the earth was the center of the solar system, when ptolemy clearly proved otherwise

Answer 6

In my opinion, that's a completely cop-out answer. "Why is there evidence of evolution?" "God put it there to trick us." "Umm...are you an idiot?"

Honestly, I think people who say they believe that are playing a prank on all of US, because I have my doubts that anyone could seriously believe something that stupid.

Wouldn't God, of all people, have better things to do than plant random stuff in the ground?

Answer 7

Maybe he just put them there to see what would happen or something. God obviously has a sense of humor, he made the girraffe and the platypus. Not to mention sex; we must be the laughingstock of the cosmos on that one.
I like to think that if god exists at all (which is unlikely), he is like a scientist with one humongous rat-maze. He sets certain conditions, then sits back and watches what happens. It's kind of twisted if you ask me.

Answer 8

That's not from God, but rather from human sin. Our lack of faith and believing in God has sent us in search of other answers. If it wasn't evolution it would be another concept. Some people have to create something they can expain rather than trusting or having faith. God gave us the answer of creation, some people just chose not to believe it and come up with their own answer.

Answer 9

who knows
some of Gods actions are absolute howlers:-
>the contradictions in the bible
>persuading some believers that they should could can and ought to handle venomous snakes
>placing a duty on impoverished people to go and visit Mecca, or the Ganges
>allowing or accquesing to warring parties bioth claiming htat god is on 'our' side
>permitting priests and the religious hirarchy to lie to their believers (whether it be persecution of Gallileo and oither unbelievers, claiming the world was flat)
>permitting an outdated book to hoble believers minds, leaving them living life aaccording to middle age beliefs
permitting the barbaric inhumane slaughter of animals in the name of religion (Halal & Kosher)
if you believe in god then the real belter in my mind is forbidding certain foodstuffs to believers

so in short god is either one sick puppy, or perhaps the joke is on the believers in that god doesnt exist despite what their preachers tell them.....

Answer 10

If God is a prankster, how do you know the Bible doesn't have its own share of practical jokes?

Answer 11

Why can t you believe in both? The combination makes perfect sense to me.