In nature is seems like all of the evolution that we observe goes from a higher order to a lower order. However, the principle of evolving from lower to higher does work - given enough time. The only problem is time. It takes almost no time at all to see something go from a complex state to a less complex state, but it takes a very long time for things to evolve from simple to complex.

It really makes you wonder how something complex comes into being. If things are constantly falling apart, how does anything ever put itself more together (and stay) and become something new AND more complex than previously existed?

There are so many examples of things we find in nature that just make you think how did that happen? How does a snake evolve such that it has poison and a mechanism to deliver it? It seems to go against common sense to think any animal could develop a toxin that it could utilize for it's own benefit. Wouldn't the snake need to have a plan first?

If a thousand monkeys sat at a thousand typewriters how long would it take them to write a book? Who's going to read everything they write to tell them when the book is done? Nature's way is to kill you if you're not writing the book it wants to read. And nature lets you live if you produce a good book (by it's standards). So, nature would require a lot of monkeys.

I think as we study these things we will eternally be able to debate whether it could happen with or without God. Pehaps as we learn more and more about how the snake evolved it will make perfect sense to us how and why the snake was able to evolve a poison. But then why would we think that evolution wasn't set in motion by design?

Personally, I think God is sneaky like this in many of the things he does. I think he gives us room to choose what we want to believe.

It seems like everyone wants to believe that either there is no God and everything evolved, or that God just snapped everything into place and nothing evolved. Why not consider that God used evolution as his mechanism for creating the birds and the fish?


Here's a parting though, what do you think is meant by in it's own kind in Gen 1.25?

[showverse:Gen:1:25]

The bombardier beetle has two sacs, one of which contains hydrogen peroxide, and the other contains hydroquinone. When the beetle feels threatened its injects hydrogen peroxide from one sac, hydroquinone from another sac, and an enzyme into a third mixing compartment. The enzyme acts as a catalyst to cause this noxious fluid to heat up to near boiling and to shoot out an outlet duct with amazing accuracy.

This hot, noxious, chemical soup is shot through a sphincter controlled firing mechanism that is in itself quite amazing.

How can something this complex come from nothing?

There are a lot of Christians and Non-Christians out there that believe there is either:
1) God
2) No God

And they believe that based on the choice above there is either:
1) No Evolution
2) Evolution

So the choice of evolution and God becomes wrapped up in one logical choice. If you tie your belief of God to evolution then to believe in God you must be able to not believe in evolution. Here is a website which tries to help with that: http://www.scienceagainstevolution.org/

Here is a quote from the http://www.scienceagainstevolution.org/ website: