huckelberry wrote:
I thought natural selection involved the idea that creatures better adapted to survive in their enviroment had more surviving children than creatures not so adapted.
Sure, but if God is getting involved and changing DNA and such to move change until 6000 year ago then natural selection is not going on. If you have a God who just started it with with the various laws in place knowing where it will all end up then you can have what we define as natural selection.
Themis, I gather your main question is about efficiency. I have already stated I believe God created the pattern of events with the basic structures of things in the beginning. This would include atomic structure making possible the chemical combinations of which life consists. That is the traditional Christian belief. It is also the traditional Christian belief that God is not locked out of the world so may apply force to change events.
Traditional Christianity has a different time line then you.
God being eternal has no shortage of time and no reason to rush the process of life's development along. I see no reason to think that Gods love did not include dinosaurs. I suspect God was happy to give them their time. At least I have no reason not to think so.
And that's about the best argument you are going to see with that position. It just make much sens to me. IF the grand design from traditional Christianity is creating Man and the life we see today, God wasted a lot of time. There was no need of dinosaurs, or why he would need to go down that route. There's probably a huge number of different creatures, environments, etc God could create but didn't.
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