They probably didn’t teach you this.
What? You have to know why he designed it the way he did. Yours is an absurd statement. BTW, bad design does not invalidate design.
I second that. There are lots of holes in Darwinian evolution. There is a family of plants which spit out their seed a few meters in all directions. It is an excellent survival strategy, so why do not all plants have the same strategy? it should have taken over by now. There is also a fish with both lungs and gills. The wheel is only human while electricity generation and storage is natural. And any ecosystem could be perfectly balanced by a couple hundred species, so why are there millions.
Neanderthals are a sub species, not a fully separate one and they did breed with Homo sapiens …we have some of their DNA in ours. Some species are such a recent split that they can still inter breed but have infertile or very low fertility…ligers from lions and tigers, etc. Speciation is a process, not an instantaneous occurrence.
When the designer is omnipotent, it kind of does.
Design is still design.
This completely misunderstands the well rounded Catholic position. Not sure how to respond.goout:
But the point is that if you claim God is omniscient, and all-powerful, and all-good, why WOULD he insert Adam and Eve where he did?
Why not do it the way the Bible says he did?
In other words, you all in this thread seem to agree that “adam and eve” were not necessarily human, they lived at least half a million years ago, if not more, had parents, had siblings, friends, and so forth, all of which did not have souls, all of whose genetic lines died out. THEN, you claim this proto-human, with less brain capacity than a chimpanzee, somehow realized God exists, somehow “sinned”, and that sin transferred to the rest of us by blood over hundreds of thousands of generations - many of whom suffered untold pains, fears and tragedies. Not too mention all the earlier and contemporary “humans” that suffered horribly despite never having actually “sinned”.
When asked WHY did and all-knowing, all-powerful and all-good God do it that way, especially considering that 150 years ago no one believed the above, including Jesus, Moses, the great Christian thinkers, the popes, the saints, and on and on - your response is nothing more than “Well, God works in mysterious ways”.
Can you understand the massive skepticism your position evokes?
Maybe it is time time rethink the concept of Original Sin?
Not obvious. Not manifest. What is obvious is that a perfect designer creates what he intends – and he does so perfectly!
Evolution doesn’t even make that claim! Let’s suppose that the dinosaurs were ‘perfect’. Does the fact that an asteroid hits earth, destroying their environment, make them “imperfect”? Of course not! A “change in environment” isn’t an “imperfection”, is it?
I haven’t even gotten to that yet.
You could show me a bad design that was not designed.
God is perfect
Totally wrong. You are looking at it without knowing the designed purpose.
The evidence for evolution is also the evidence against it, so it is a matter of just picking sides and i can see you have blindly chosen a myth but you can help me settle this one.