Same with evolution, from a very wide angle point of view: random mutations and natural selection - a couple of sentences are supposed to explain the fantastic complexity of life? I don't think so, Tim.
Why not? Sometimes simplicity in statement can provoke generations of thoughts. For example:
"I think, therefore, I am."
"The only thing you have to fear is fear itself."
The complexity behind these simple sentences is for those who wish to do so to decipher and debate.
How is God's ability to shape the entire Earth's (or universe) future with a simple strand of molecules and create the system of evolution any less miraculous than creating each and every one of the creatures we see today
de novo (and, course all those that are now extinct)?
We proclaim those who decipher the mathematical and scientific laws as geniuses, but creationists would deny that their god who could simply implement such laws through sheer will and conduct the "Greatest Experiment" would ever do such a thing. They (humans) have to be specially created for some reason not postulated in the Bible.
Why can't the laws of physics and chemistry and biology exist as a testament to god's immense genius? Why must god have created you (humans) as special beings who cannot question his creation? Why must the Bible be accurate as testament to a grand creation as it exists in the Bible? Why can't evolution present itself an experiment in God's design? Because it is imperfect? God didn't create perfection, as Christians can attest, with sin abounding in the world. Why would Christians assume that perfection exists in all of God's creation, when His most esteemed creation is not perfect at all?
I really want to know these answers from people who think they know them.
™ Version 4.2