Phatscotty wrote:TA1LGUNN3R wrote:warmonger1981 wrote:Is it possible there is something out there so unbelievably smarter than us that they were able to create all of this. Humans are only touching the tip of the iceberg. It's silly to think that creation or evolution are the only option. You people act as we have figured it all out. We haven't even discovered all the animals or plants on the earth yet we can definitively say where everything from or they evolved. If evolution is correct why not compress all that has been learned into a 2-3 hour movie showing proven facts of evolution? Not theories. Or if creation is the other option why not compress all that info into a 2-3 hour movie stating proven facts?Neither side can do so. If they could there would be no debate because either side would be able to explain where we came from.
There have been plenty of instances where myself and others have showed proof of evolution, incontrovertibly. Whether the creationists choose to acknowledge it is up to them. It does require at least a working familiarity of the basics of genetics and physiology.
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Why couldn't evolution be a perfectly natural and fully integrated function or purpose of something that was created?
Well, if we accept as true the basic cosmology that we have now (the Universe was created nearly 14 billion years ago, but Earth wasn't created until less than 5 billion years ago) -- and there's no good scientific reason to disagree with that -- then for evolution to be a purpose of creation, the Creator would have needed to set up the universe in just such a way as to guarantee that evolution was possible, and that it would happen on Earth.
And of course, there's not really any way for us to test that right now. But one wonders why the Creator would go through all that trouble to set up the universe just right, when if He wanted humans to exist, he could have just created us straight up.