If God is all-powerful, why use evolution?

[ltrain]

Just wondering what you all think. If God is all-powerful, why did God use evolution to create life on earth? It seems like a cruel and non-loving way to create.

Wouldn't it have been more loving to create all at once, in six twenty-four hour days, and thus avoid millions of years of suffering and death? The whole evolution thing seems cruel and unnecessary.

Just curious.

ltrain

 

[gluadys]

Just wondering what you all think. If God is all-powerful, why did God use evolution to create life on earth? It seems like a cruel and non-loving way to create.

Wouldn't it have been more loving to create all at once, in six twenty-four hour days, and thus avoid millions of years of suffering and death? The whole evolution thing seems cruel and unnecessary.

Just curious.

ltrain

Why would you assume it takes less power to create by evolution than instantaneously?

What is cruel about evolution?

Just curious.

 

[ebia]

Just wondering what you all think. If God is all-powerful, why did God use evolution to create life on earth? It seems like a cruel and non-loving way to create.

Wouldn't it have been more loving to create all at once, in six twenty-four hour days, and thus avoid millions of years of suffering and death? The whole evolution thing seems cruel and unnecessary.

No more so than the whole business of creation. You may as well ask why God created at all.

 

[ILoveYeshua]

if God is all powerful, why use atoms? its just as silly. his omnipotence does not preclude him using natural means. or perhaps it is so that those who see might be made blind, lest they turn and be forgiven.

 

[Breetai]

What is cruel about evolution?

Death and disease before anyone deserved it.

 

[gluadys]

Death and disease before anyone deserved it.

Most creatures who die or get sick still don't deserve it. What's your point?

 

[Breetai]

Most creatures who die or get sick still don't deserve it. What's your point?

I'm referring to death before sin, implying that there wasn't any... Because of sin, death is deserved. I've probably already overstayed my welcome, because I can't debate here (forum rules). So, that's all I will say.

 

[The Lady Kate]

Just wondering what you all think. If God is all-powerful, why did God use evolution to create life on earth? It seems like a cruel and non-loving way to create.

Wouldn't it have been more loving to create all at once, in six twenty-four hour days, and thus avoid millions of years of suffering and death? The whole evolution thing seems cruel and unnecessary.

Just curious.

ltrain

Letting His only begotten son suffer and die so that we may be saved seems cruel and unnecessary, but that's the way He chose to do it.

Perhaps we should let God be the judge on what's more loving?

 

[DailyBlessings]

You're assuming both that we are the ultimate goal of the creation, and that the creatures who came before us were not. I see the creation as an ongoing event, still occurring. Each part is in accordance with the will of God, and we still have a role to play.

Death and suffering are not evils, but a part of the balance inherent in natural systems.

 

[fragmentsofdreams]

Just wondering what you all think. If God is all-powerful, why did God use evolution to create life on earth? It seems like a cruel and non-loving way to create.

Wouldn't it have been more loving to create all at once, in six twenty-four hour days, and thus avoid millions of years of suffering and death? The whole evolution thing seems cruel and unnecessary.

Just curious.

ltrain

But then we wouldn't have had dinosaurs. Animals live and die. I don't see how them living and dying for billions of years is cruel. Would it be better that they did not exist at all?

 

[gluadys]

I'm referring to death before sin, implying that there wasn't any... Because of sin, death is deserved. I've probably already overstayed my welcome, because I can't debate here (forum rules). So, that's all I will say.

Well most creatures don't sin either, so there is still no deserving involved.

Why do you have a problem accepting disease and death as part of the way nature works?

 

[stumpjumper]

How else would a God that is defined as Love create?

Love might have compulsions and desires but it would not completely overpower that which it loves and desires to bring about. Love is only possible under freedom be it moral or natural.

 

[Extirpated Wildlife]

I'm not a confessed TE but I will answer the question to the topic title only.

God can not create anything He can't lift, so God is not all powerful.

Now answer my question. Does God poop?

 

[sanct1fym3]

Being all powerful isn't a stupid matter of his creation of an unliftable object. God limits himself. He has limited the ways to get to Himself, he has limited his revelation to us, he has limited the options of eternity. I think that you have a warped view of God that can be cured by this book i know, you can buy it just about anywhere it's called the Bible. It's a pretty good read... God is a spirit, and as such i can imagine needs no food or intake, and without one i can't see the other happening.

 

[sanct1fym3]

And despite God's limiting himself he is still all powerful.

P.S. Not a T.E. just so everybody is clear

 

[sanct1fym3]

How else would a God that is defined as Love create?

Love might have compulsions and desires but it would not completely overpower that which it loves and desires to bring about. Love is only possible under freedom be it moral or natural.

O.K. sumpbler or whatever. Just saying God is love is saying that god is more than one because if od was only one then he couldn't be love because ther is only one to love Look up C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity sometime.

 

[stumpjumper]

O.K. sumpbler or whatever. Just saying God is love is saying that god is more than one because if od was only one then he couldn't be love because ther is only one to love Look up C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity sometime.

I've read just about everything C.S. Lewis wrote and its all very good

If you want to read an essay about Love and Evolution read my blog entry. Its the only one in there but I have been meaning to get around to writing another one eventually.

 

[disciple777]

Most creatures who die or get sick still don't deserve it. What's your point?

When natural order is violated then, there is trouble, pain and suffering. God placed man and woman in the paradise. There was no pain, death, sickness or suffering. When Eve was decieved by the Serpent, Adam and Eve disobeyed God. They became cursed. This is when sickness, pain and death came into the world. We did not come into the world by our choice. God created you and me. As long as we live, we will be subject to decay, sickness, pain and death.

 

[gluadys]

When natural order is violated then, there is trouble, pain and suffering. God placed man and woman in the paradise. There was no pain, death, sickness or suffering. When Eve was decieved by the Serpent, Adam and Eve disobeyed God. They became cursed. This is when sickness, pain and death came into the world. We did not come into the world by our choice. God created you and me. As long as we live, we will be subject to decay, sickness, pain and death.

Nevertheless, it is a fact that death, pain, suffering and sickness existed in the natural world long before humanity did.

Do you think your religious opinion can change fact?

 

[disciple777]

First of all, Evolution is only a theory which cannot explain many phenomena. It also violates all natural laws of chemistry, physics and biology. God only established the natural laws. Why would He use Evolution which contradicts all the natural laws God Himself had established?