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 non-violence in the future, we humans, the crown of his creation, can better appreciate his creation.

     This explanation is arguably plausible within the 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 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.

     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 prophecies reveal the coming of Christ, and also reveal the dark forces that govern the cosmos.  Such are the ancient Christian writings.