Amanda
Calm as a Hindu cow
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I think the problem with your reasoning is that you don't understand how evolution works. Organisms don't change to adapt or ensure their own survival. To think it works this way 1 would have to will change in self. This is of course pretty much out of the question. Go ahead and try it. Concentrate really hard on growing wings or gills or a thick hairy coat and see if you can do it.
Random mutations occur in organisms every generation of every species. Sometimes these mutations help an organism to survive, sometimes they don't. The changes that tended to help survival are then reinforced because the 1s that lived go on to breed and pass these changes to their offspring. THAT is how evolution works.
Read Dawkins (a liberal and atheist) he explains it very clearly.
Further there is nothing about evolution that precludes an initial creation. If you're hoping to make creationists look foolish for their belief using evolution it's the wrong tool. It's irrelevant to the question of creation.
The issue with creationism or intelligent design or anything that subscribes to a supernatural power is that it can't fit within the constraints of the scientific method.
That's it.
Everything else is just noise.
People can speculate and believe what they want about the larger issues, but when it comes to science that's the bottom line.
I don't think either (creationism or evolution) does an adequate job of explaining how all of this got here. Everything I've ever heard about Big Bangs is just as flimsy as God. All the same questions apply. What was here before? How did it get here? What caused the Big Bang? Why did God decide to make this? It's all the same.
Personally, I don't see much conflict between the two, but then again I don't have an agenda that is helped by 1 being right and the other being wrong.