Evolution Forum

[appolose]

Rath said:

appolose said:

Khuutra said:
Right, but see, it's not just creation that would be metaphorical - it's basically all of Genesis. Adam and Eve? The Flood? All of that? Metaphorical!

(also evolution is not pain and suffering it is the triumph of life over adversity, that is "very good")

 

 If all of Genesis could be taken metaphorically, then context would be next to useless (or, so I find).  Furthermore, an omnipotent God could find thousands of better systems that would not involve killing off every unfit creature until the right one randomly mutates apt genetics (of course, perhaps earlier) to survive (thus, putting such a system on the "very bad" part of the scale of choices, I would think). And while evolution certainly does end up with a life that eventually does prevail, it also has about a trillion times more death and pain along the way.

 

 There are a lot of things an omnipotent god wouldn't do. For example it wouldn't fuck up the designing process and for example give us and many other mammals a blind spot by putting the retinas inside out. Or give humans wisdom teeth which never were much use to us (though quite handy to apes) and just cause a lot of unecessary trouble.

I think an omnipotent god is more likely to invent evolution than to make massive cockups in the designing process .

Perhaps not, but, in the creationist doctrine, those mistakes may not have existed in the beginning of creation (much like death didn't).