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A Problem for Intelligent Design"

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Did God Create Violent

Animals?
A Problem for
"Intelligent Design"
According to traditional theology, the Almighty Creator
God sees everything, knows everything, created everything,
and can do anything. This God is the God who created
earthquakes and tornadoes, hurricanes and wildfires, sharks
and mosquitoes, black widows and rattlesnakes, and lions
and tigers and bears, who rip out the necks of other animals
and eat them alive. And this God desires a better world, as
the Prophet says:
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard
shall rest with the young goat, and the calf and the lion
and fatted livestock together, and a child shall lead
them. The cow and the bear shall graze together the
lion shall eat straw like a cow, toddlers will play in
snakes' dens they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my
holy mountain.[1]

If God wanted non-violent animals, then why didn't he just

create them non-violent to begin with? Theologians have a
ready answer: God did create them non-violent, but the devil
was thrown to earth, and therefore it is the devil who turned
the animals to violence. God wants us to see the
consequences of the devil's rebellion, so that we can learn a
lesson from it. That way, when God reverts the world to
THIS SECTION: non-violence in the future, we humans, the crown of his
creation, can better appreciate his creation.
GOD IS NOT

Above: The Primordial Bull-God El, the

Father of the gods in ancient pre-Jewish
Hebrew religion. He is "God the Father" in
Christianity.

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This explanation is arguably plausible within the
least not yet
creationists' time frame of 6,000 years. However, it falls

apart if the earth is much older. Animals have been ripping

each other's necks out and eating each other for 540 million
years. What was God's purpose in allowing this to continue
for so long? Certainly it was not to teach us a lesson about
the devil's rebellion, for we did not even exist back then.
Was the lesson meant for trilobites and dimwitted reptiles?
Moreover, the universe is even older standing at 13.7
billion years. If the human species is the crown of creation,
the only organism "made in the image of God," as Genesis 1

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says,[2] then why did it take God 13.7 billion years to create
us? What could delay God for 13.7 billion years? Was it
really necessary to create failed experiments like dinosaurs
and dodo birds before us? Was it really necessary to waste 3
billion years creating different types of bacteria and sea scum
before creating the first true plant or animal? Once the
Almighty Creator God is separated from the creationist time
frame of a 6,000 year-old earth, it leaves that God in a
theological no-mans' land, because there is little cover from
the many arguments that can be launched against that God's
very existence.

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Ancient Christians believed the progenitor of

this universe was an imperfect god who
messed it all up. Their stories are
metaphorically similar to the scientific
understanding of the Big Bang.

Also, if we are in the image of God, then why do our

bodies have the marks of evolution on them? We have a
worthless organ called an appendix, which is good for
nothing but exploding and killing us. We have a large
amount of DNA that is repressed and doesn't even code for
anything. It just takes up space and nutrients inside our
cells. Why would the Almighty Creator God include
irrelevant DNA in his code for life? Moreover, if we are the
crown of God's creation, and if he created color and beauty
for our enjoyment, then why can't we see colors in their full
glory? We are more dependent upon our eyes than upon any
other sensory organ, yet the color capacity of our eyes is
inferior to that of goldfish and chickens! Far from being
highly evolved, our color vision is no better than that of the
most primitive of living reptiles, the crocodiles! We have
only three cones for color, but many inglamorous species
have more. These include flies, jumping spiders, and a
certain shrimp-like praying mantis that lives at the bottom of
the ocean.[3]
If we are to assume a divine hand was involved in the
making of our evolutionary history, it would have to be more
along the lines of Intelligent Interference than Intelligent
Design, for God did not perfectly create us, nor did God
perfectly morph us from the lower apes. The human body
was not designed by an all-knowing God. Rather, it came
about haphazardly and imperfectly.
Click here to read more about how the ancient scriptures
prove that the God of the Prophets was not all powerful.

The creationist narrative in Genesis 1 is contradicted by

many ancient Christian texts. Instead of an Almighty
Creator God, ancient Christian texts espouse that the
universe is born from blind arrogance and stupidity.
The angels caused evolution to occur from species to
species. There are many gods, (or aliens?), and the
Christian God is just one among them. Satan the Devil
writes scripture, and thus the Bible was polluted with
Genesis 1. Archaeology and modern scholarship
demonstrate that Genesis is indeed corrupted.
Cavemen walk with Adam and Eve. Esoteric

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prophecies reveal the coming of Christ, and also reveal

the dark forces that govern the cosmos. Such are the
ancient Christian writings.
Sciencevindicates the truth of these ideas. Evolution often
happens too fast for Darwins theory. Gaps in the fossil
record indicate that some kind of unnatural force acts
together with natural selection. Astrobiology reveals that
intelligent life probably evolved long before us. The fossil
record reveals strange clues that aliens abducted species and
transported them across oceans, and that DNA from diverse
lineages was combined to spawn hybrid species. Evidently,
aliens influence evolution, and they are the gods of the
worlds religions.
This is not fiction. All these facts are thoroughly documented
in the links above.

[1] Isaiah 11:6-9

[2] Genesis 1:27
[3] Kelber, Almut; Vorobyev, Misha; Osorio, Daniel. Animal Color Vision Behavioral Tests and
Physiological Concepts. 2003, Cambridge Philosophical Society, Biological Reviews, Vol 78, Issue
1, p 83-85

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