If God didn't want people to believe in evolution, why did he create smart people?

Question

This is hypothetical.

Nicholas, you will always get a thumbs up!

Answer 1

Satan created smart people.

God created Eve, who apparently listens carefully to the opinions of talking snakes.

Answer 2

In reality, God didn't create smart people. It was the work of the Devil which created smart people. Think of the Book of Genesis, when God created man and woman, they were innocent, in other words, they really weren't much different from the beasts of the field. There was a certain spark that they lacked. The Devil came along, and talked them into eating of the Fruit of the tree of Knowledge. A that point, they really were human, not just little automatons.

So, God created Man and Woman, but the Devil is the one who made us smart.

Answer 3

Well it goes both ways...

A smart person is going to be able to secure more interesting and advanced people and/or things in their lives.
However, a smart person is also going to be harder to amuse because things that seem amazing to most people will seem so-so to him/her.

So the trick is to be humble and happy with what you have. Happiness is what you do with what you have and how you use it to be creative. The highest level of the Kabbalah in Jewish religion, for example, is giving and humbility, considered even more important than knowledge and abstract thought.
So if you are not jealous and believe in your skills being able to give you what intellectual level enjoyments you can digest and consider satisfying, you believe in and naturally work for the good of yourself, others, and ultimately God's plan. So this is far from hypocrisy on God's part.

TO RELATE THIS TO EVOLUTION IN AN OBVIOUS WAY people who are smart are made to work for material evolution more than others, but SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION IS BOTH MORE IMPORTANT AND PLAUSIBLE FOR ALL PEOPLE, INCLUDING NOT-SO-SMART PEOPLE...

GOD WANTED US TO CATCH ON TO SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION MOREOVER THEN MATERIAL EVOLUTION; AND DID NOT WANT TO HIDE EITHER OF THESE.

Answer 4

Exactly, and that is the reason Atheists are Gods favorites of all his creation. Smart people know that evolution is not a ‘belief’, it the cause, description, and explanation for all biological life ever encountered, and that ever will be encountered, in our physical universe.

If Jesus does return, it will not be to reward bible-thumpers, but to thump their lame brains.

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Susie A -

You made that up, didn't you? What have you read? Or, are you not being honest?

Why did Darwin pick up the pace to get 'Origin of Species' published in 1859? What did he hate most about
being on the Beagle?

Demonstrate some knowledge, and explain why your statement about the lack of absolutes in Darwin's writing should not be seen by all of us as an indication of your complete ignorance of science.

What is your epistemology?

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JasonLee -

They have, bozo. Even your Creationist masters don't make statements that stupid. Their evolutionary history is well documented.

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drshorty -

There can be no wisdom without knowledge.

Answer 5

God doesn't want a lot of things, but we as sinners, do it anyway. Evolution is a theory. Theories are fruited by men. Men were given the power of will. And God did not create smart people. Smart people are smart because they use the gift of will to WANT to learn more and become smarter.

Answer 6

ah, that's the whole trick you see, your not supposed to think, thinking is sinful. if god had meant you to use your mind he wouldn't have given you faith. but then again he shouldn't have given you a mind in the first place. help, i'm getting lost. oh sorry i've just worked out that he didn't give a mind to a lot of people who rely on just faith alone. oh susie, darwin's work was full of ifs and buts because they didn't have broadband where he lived so he couldn't do his research online and the nearest scanning electron microsope was miles away and he was never to good at flying his helicopter, so he couldn't look into the structure of DNA, which would have eradicated many of the ifs and bits. oh sorry, i've just been told that they didn't have broadband, electron microscopes, helicopters or any knowledge of DNA when darwin was alive. now this is a very difficult concept to grasp, scientific knowledge and understanding grows with the passage of time, well that's astounding. you mean that darwin's work was merely a hypothesis upon which evolutionary science has been built and made more scientifically rigourous since his day, i'll be blowed, progress that's a new one on me. point proven i think.

Answer 7

Exactly. Similarly, if god wanted us to love him/her, then why allow people to be atheist or agnostic... why did she allow doubt at all?

The theists will spout answers about "free will", as if it's something that their god could not or would not control. But guess what, it's the only way that evil can exist. What kind of god allows evil when she doesn't have to do so? No theist has been able to explain why god allows evil, except to admit that god is not all-powerful, or to admit that god is evil (and I've never heard of the latter).

Answer 8

Basically because he did not create smart people. smart people, and those of lesser intelligence were created out of the evolutionary process. Not be some big fake guy sitting on his so called "Holy" Cloud.

Answer 9

There are different ways of being smart. There's having knowledge, and then there's knowing how to use that knowledge in your daily life. That's wisdom. It's important to be educated, but it's more important to be wise.

By the way, what's wrong with believing in "not enough information, keep the question open until we get more"?

Answer 10

it was god who was created by some smart people who do not believe in evolution theory.