[Mormons and Evolution] 12/02/2005 11:56:13 AM

If they had known what that optimal design was beforehand, they simply would have intelligently designed it that way rather than taking the long and wasteful route. ... If the Designer knew the design then why waste so much time, energy and life in taking the long route? Why take the longer and more exploratory route if no exploration was necessary? The ID answer is that He (to one degree or another) didn't. The evolutionary creationist, on the other hand, doesn't really have much of an answer. 

Obviously an incisive question, but it may misleadingly focus too much on individual organisms. Remember that entire ecosystems have to be built up into a biosphere that can support man. Starting from a lifeless planet, it could be that it is necessary to build up slowly, gradually bringing along complicated systems with many interactions. In this context what seems wasteful from the perspective of a single individual of a single species might actually be quite reasonable in the context of the bigger picture.
 

Posted by Christian Y. Cardall

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Posted by Christian Y. Cardall to Mormons and Evolution at 12/02/2005 11:56:13 AM