Just because there was evolution that does not prove that God was not behind it. They seem to assume that God would have delivered the final product all at once but He (sorry if that is not the right pronoun!) might have factored in evolution.
When God designed vertebrates, He had only one basic idea. We used to have skeletons of assorted animals round the walls of the biology lab at my school. When you see them all together like that you realise that only one idea formed the basis for every vertebrate.
OK, there may be different numbers of vertebra or length of tail or number of teeth but basically everything was the same. Fish might have three bones attached to their vertebra but other animals have two and a stub. Birds don't have conventional ribs because they are fused and they have a prominent sternum to attach the wing muscles.
Some snakes even have shoulder blades and legs! They just did not develop.
Human embryos look like fish embryos in the very first stages. See how many different animals start. Humans start with gill-like structures and tails. Some people are even born with tails!
Just because there was evolution that does not prove that God was not behind it. They seem to assume that God would have delivered the final product all at once but He (sorry if that is not the right pronoun!) might have factored in evolution.
When God designed vertebrates, He had only one basic idea. We used to have skeletons of assorted animals round the walls of the biology lab at my school. When you see them all together like that you realise that only one idea formed the basis for every vertebrate.
OK, there may be different numbers of vertebra or length of tail or number of teeth but basically everything was the same. Fish might have three bones attached to their vertebra but other animals have two and a stub. Birds don't have conventional ribs because they are fused and they have a prominent sternum to attach the wing muscles.
Some snakes even have shoulder blades and legs! They just did not develop.
Human embryos look like fish embryos in the very first stages. See how many different animals start. Humans start with gill-like structures and tails. Some people are even born with tails!
“Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”
Succinctly put.