When God creates a new species, why is it always a modification of an existing species?

Question

Whenever a new species appears in the fossil record, it is almost invariably just like something that already existed, but slightly modified. In fact, it's almost as if one evolved into the other. Why would God do that, do you think? Why not invent completely new things, instead of constantly fiddling with existing things?

Answer 1

because it is evolution.

Answer 2

There are several things wrong with your statements. First of all they presuppose that the fossil record did not come about for the most part as a result of a global catastrophe like a world wide flood with underground water bursting forth and the outer crust of the planet going through major contortions that formed what scientists would call "millions of years" worth of soil layers in a matter of days.

That's why they find trees that have been fossilized standing up going through twenty or thirty feet of these layers. That's why they find herds of mastodons in the arctic quick frozen with tropical vegetation still in their stomachs. That's why they find fossil beds of billions of small fish that were schooling compressed between rock layers.

The second thing that you are not taking into account is that common design point to a common designer not to a species of one design changing into a totally different species of a similar design. The theory that a fish became an amphibian that became a reptile that became a mammal is totally ridiculous. The law of natural selection precludes the inefficient intermediate stages that would have had to take place besides which mutations never add information to a genetic structure. They only alter existing information and in most cases in a detrimental way.

Answer 3

your statement is not true. even many Darwinist have stated this. here is a quote from one of the leading Darwinist. you have a dogma built into your argument that holds no scientfc facts.

The noted palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould of Harvard pointed out that:-

"The fossil record with its abrupt transitions offers no support for gradual change ........ All palaeontologists know that the fossil record contains precious little in the way of intermediate forms; transitions between major groups are characteristically abrupt" (Gould, 1977).

Answer 4

He must not be all that creative. Maybe he was drunk when he started the whole thing. I'm always more creative in my writing when I'm drunk. Sober it's more difficult, and I kind of end up writing the same ideas over and over in slightly different ways.

Answer 5

LOL @ Smarty Pants' answer. But it's worse: Carmakers are subject to the limits of budgets and imagination. God, presumably, has no such excuse.

Answer 6

I don't think that Adam and Eve were modifications of an existing species

Answer 7

Only God knows why!

Answer 8

God has limited thinking capacity.

Answer 9

Because the ALL KNOWING, EVER PRESENT, BENEVOLENT God is surprisingly void of an imagination...

Or, its evolution. Ill go with the latter.

Answer 10

Apparently god has a lot in common with car manufacturers.

Answer 11

If it ain't broke, why fix it?

Though I would have liked flying pigs. That would have been cool.
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