Does the world around you look like a product of evolution or like it was intelligently designed by God?

Answer 1

Creation 100%

Physical universe: If you found a precision timepiece, would you conclude that it was formed by a chance blowing together of some dust particles? Obviously, someone with intelligence made it. There is an even more magnificent “clock.” The planets in our solar system, also the stars in the entire universe, move at a rate that is more precise than most clocks designed and manufactured by man. The galaxy in which our solar system is located includes over 100 billion stars, and astronomers estimate that there are 100 billion of such galaxies in the universe. If a clock is evidence of intelligent design, how much more so is the far more vast and complicated universe! The Bible describes the Designer of it as “the true God, Jehovah, . . . the Creator of the heavens and the Grand One stretching them out.”—Isa. 42:5; 40:26; Ps. 19:1.

Planet Earth: When crossing a barren desert, if you came to a beautiful house, well equipped in every way and stocked with food, would you believe that it got there by some chance explosion? No; you would realize that someone with considerable wisdom built it. Well, scientists have not yet found life on any of the planets of our solar system except the earth; available evidence indicates that the others are barren. This planet is, as the book The Earth says, “the wonder of the universe, a unique sphere.” (New York, 1963, Arthur Beiser, p. 10) It is at just the right distance from the sun for human life, and it moves at just the right speed to be held in orbit. The atmosphere, of a kind found only around the earth, is made up of just the right proportion of gases to sustain life. Marvelously, light from the sun, carbon dioxide from the air, and water and minerals from fertile soil combine to produce food for earth’s inhabitants. Did it all come about as a result of some uncontrolled explosion in space? Science News admits: “It seems as if such particular and precise conditions could hardly have arisen at random.” (August 24 and 31, 1974, p. 124) The Bible’s conclusion is reasonable when it states: “Of course, every house is constructed by someone, but he that constructed all things is God.”—Heb. 3:4.

Human brain: Modern computers are a product of intensive research and careful engineering. They did not “just happen.” What about the human brain? Unlike the brain of any animal, the brain of a human infant triples in size during its first year. How it functions is still largely a mystery to scientists. In humans, there is the built-in capacity to learn complex languages, to appreciate beauty, to compose music, to contemplate the origin and meaning of life. Said brain surgeon Robert White: “I am left with no choice but to acknowledge the existence of a Superior Intellect, responsible for the design and development of the incredible brain-mind relationship—something far beyond man’s capacity to understand.” (The Reader’s Digest, September 1978, p. 99) The development of this marvel begins from a tiny fertilized cell in the womb. With remarkable insight, the Bible writer David said to Jehovah: “I shall laud you because in a fear-inspiring way I am wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, as my soul is very well aware.”—Ps. 139:14.

Living cell: A single living cell is sometimes referred to as being a “simple” form of life. But a one-celled animal can catch food, digest it, get rid of wastes, build a house for itself and engage in sexual activity. Each cell of the human body has been likened to a walled city, with a central government to maintain order, a power plant to generate energy, factories to produce proteins, a complex transportation system, and guards to regulate what is permitted to enter. And a single human body is made up of as many as 100 trillion cells. How appropriate the words of Psalm 104:24: “How many your works are, O Jehovah! All of them in wisdom you have made”!

Answer 2

Intelligently designed by God

Answer 3

Definitely evolution. Does it make sense to suggest that a benevolent designer made hostile climates and then created penguins to suffer in them and have their eggs freeze? Does it make sense to put together limbs for holding, climbing, swimming and flying on the same basic structure rather than optimizing each?

This doesn't necessarily mean that the world does not point to God, to transcendent realities we can scarcely imagine. It just means that intelligent design leaves you with a sadistic and inept designer, and so they would be better off dropping those arguments before too many people realize where they lead!

Answer 4

Evolution sounds pretty intelligent to me. Maybe God invented evolution. Why would the worlds creatures and plants improve their own existence through adaptation/evolution? If God's design was for the world to evolve, what are we evolving into?

Answer 5

What would the world look like if the other model was true?

The world looks the way it does because of basic laws of physics and an immensely long series of occurrences. It could well have happened differently.

Intelligent design falls apart when you start listing all of the parts of the human body that don't work real well. Things like back problems that arise because our spine is quadrepedal and we insist on standing upright on two. All the better to see things afar, but a real pain in the neck.

Answer 6

I see problems with evolution I can't get around. Maybe you could explain them to me..

There are two major evidences that I am aware of:
1. There doesn't seem to be enough time for the small rodent like mammals left after the last extinguishing event to bring them to the size and variety of the mammals the roamed the earth during the last major ice age. Plant life I can understand came through this even in seed form.
2. Viruses and bacteria are another problem they have been known to man for approximately the last 200 years. During that time there have been billions of generations, yet never has they jumped species. Yes the have varied but they remain viruses and bacteria .. They don't seem to be moving up an evolutionary ladder even after that many generations. Jim

Answer 7

There is much evidence to support evolution but none to support the existence of any gods. The world around all of us is definitely a product of evolution. If one believes in some gods, why should Moses' deity YHWH be any better than Allah of Islam, Ahuramazda of Zoroastrianism, Brahma of Hinduism, etc.? All gods are imaginary, so none is better than the rest.

Answer 8

Evolution

Answer 9

Nothing like a human body with this miraculous organ we call the brain with about 100 billions nerve cells could exist just by chance. IMPOSSIBLE, IMPOSSIBLE. There must be an intelligent designer. The Bible tells us that in the beginning everything was perfect, but that an enemy destroyed that perfect nature. This God's enemy was much smarter than today's scientists and knew how to manipulate genes. He knew the language of the DNA code. He could not create these monstrous reptiles we call dinosours, he had not such power, but he could manipulate existing living beings to something less perfect than they were from the beginning.
So the world around us, first hand, points to an ingelligent designer, God, but also to an evil enemy that has destroyed that original beautiful picture.

Answer 10

Evolution.