Why did god design creatures in such a way that they appear to be the result of evolution?

Question

Is he trying to trick us?

Answer 1

Christians are in such denial. ID hasn't proven anything.
"Theory" doesn't mean unproven. To become a theory, an idea must be rogrously tested, because scientists are hesitant to attatch the "fact" label to anything. Evolution is both a theory and a fact. It is a fact in that we no creatures change over time. We don't neccesarily know that it is through Darwin's method, however. That is the theory part. In other words, Evolution is fact. Darwin had a theory as to how it worked.

That's funny. Athiest bringing their preconceptions to data. So says the person that believes that an unverifiable multi-millenia old book is fit to dispense scientific knowledge.

Wow, bringing up that at one point, hundreds of years ago, people thought the world was flat. I suppose that was before they had religious text to tell them how the world worked. Thats kinda like the Great FLood that never happened, or the 7 days of creation that coouldn't have worked, or the Sun centered solar system that the Church made Galileo recant.
Never mind that, with with the scientific revolution, sciece finally separated itself from religion and other biases. Now, science is based on verifiable fact.
Religion is fairy tales. It has no basis in fact. It can't be supported empiricly. It is amazing still, after so many years of progress, people still believe in religion.



Oh, as to scientissts coming on board to believe, look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Steve

There are more scientist with the name "Stephen" who support evolution than all of the scientist who don't. In just 4 days, over 7000 scientists signed a petition supporting evolution, which is 20 times the amount that had signed the "oppose evolution" petiotion, which had existed for 4 years!

Answer 2

What you are talking about are the two opposing processes of natural selection and Creationism. Natural selection depends on a wide variety of events to occur. For instance: Life developed on this planet in the form that it did because of it's environment, but life on a different planet (that is capable of supporting life) might develop in a rather different form because of the different environment. Take a look at any of the "Star Wars" films; not all of the species are the same because not all of the environments that their species developed in were the same. Now that is science fiction, but the principle behind the concept is the same. In creationism, the thought is that there is a single creator that "designed" all of the species and the universe. The problem with this concept is that when they reach a point and do not understand why something is the way it is, they stop researching and say that "God did it" or there is an "intelligent designer" that made it that way. It is a fatally flawed process because it does not allow for further research to see why something functions the way that it does. That is the law of "irreducible complexity", which is also fatally flawed and has been show to be flawed both in the scientific community and in the courts. Creationism only allows enough science to give it the appearance of credibility. The theories expressed by it's proponents, when confronted with it's flaws all claim "God did it". The processes related to natural selection have been shown and demonstrated and depend completely on evidence. When they find holes in their theories, they reassess the theories and see why it doesn't work and then determine what theories fit ALL of the evidence and what accounts for the holes in the theories and why. No "god did it" to fill in the holes, just backing up and finding out why. We call that science. No guessing; just examining the evidence and seeing what theories fit the evidence. Creationism picks what evidence fits the theories and disregards the evidence that disputes the theory. A fatally flawed process.

Answer 3

No, God is not trying to trick us. Mankind has always thought he knew more than he does. Even our wonderful scientific advancement over the past thousand years has proven time and again to be wrong. Remember, at one time everyone thought the world was flat and that the sun revolved around the earth. The appearance that man is the result of evolution is just another one of the scientific "theories" that will eventually be proven untrue. In fact, creation scientists (those that believe that creation is of intelligent design" have already proven that some of the assumptions made by Darwin and his followers are incorrect. Some mainstream scientists are now coming on board on the new "intelligent design theory" because it does make sense scientifically. They have not as of yet come to acknowledge God as the creator but they are at least convinced that the universe was not some kind of accident.

Answer 4

No, God is not trying to trick us. He doesn't work that way. God designed both man and creature and because all are made by the same creator, all are similar in design. For example, the apes and humans are indeed similar, but we did not evolve from the apes, nor fish, nor birds nor anything else. That just makes no sense whatsoever, because I ask, if someone believes that apes evolved into humans, than why didn't all apes evolve? God created apes in the 'form' they are today just as He created man in the image of Himself. The earth appears old because God created it 'old,' in the same manner, He created Adam as a grown man, not an infant.
All works of an artist will be different, but yet there are similarites in their work because they are by the same 'creator.'
If you are one who holds evolution as truth, than I ask you to study science with an open mind along side an open Bible.

Answer 5

God is the harmonious force that surrounds us and keeps the flow of this universe on the right track. There is no time for him-he's not a guy up in heaven pulling strings and counting souls but rather a perfection we wish to grow toward in our personal attainment in life. Why wouldn't evolution be true? Just because tyou want to call it by a different name doesn't mean its not the same as what you believe. Why can't both be true? If there is no time-its all a second to God-then what's 10 Million years? You see? Consider Adam and Eve to be the first to reconize their souls and inner spirit and their immortality-that would set them apart from the animals in the sense they no longer flowed thoughtlessly in their relationship with God and their choices-God gave us that-where an animal -just IS. They are all part of Gods harmony and workings but we continously can choose to grow-or not. God doesn't trick-its all right in front of you. Don't try so hard....

Answer 6

creatures are a result of micro evolution, wolves become a variety of dogs

instead of an evolutionatry tree with one branch in reality there is a creation orchard.. each animal type micro evoloving

with man as its own and separate tree with various ethnic groups in it

perhaps the trick is when aethists bring their preconceptions to the data and forget that their preconceptions color how they themselves look at the data. Having rules out God working in nature, all they can allow themselves to see is macro evolution

Answer 7

Dear Friend,

We do not appear to be the result of Evolution (remeber its a theory!) We are a perfect design, every design has a designer. Being God!

God Bless

Answer 8

Because he felt like it? How should we know? We're only human!

Belief in God and acceptance of the *Theory* of Evolution are not mutually exclusive. If God is all-powerful, then perhaps it was his choice to set evolution in motion.

God wrote the program; evolution is the output; meteor strikes are the reset button.

Answer 9

if u were designing different things how would u do it? ... isnt it normal to change smaller details until u wind up with somthing else that pleases you? ... it seems logical to me ...and the fact that there is a difference of some degree between different animals and not slight differences and many similar animals says it all ... if u get what im saying ...

Answer 10

Yes, I hear he's quite the trickster. He did the same thing with putting galaxies millions of light years away when he only created them 6000 years ago.

Tricky god