☢The Theistic Response➼ to Atheists saying, "It Doesn't mean God Did it"

[Tonus]

Most everyone here I suspect is from the city.  I had a farm for 12 years.  I never saw a dog mate with a cow and produce a sheep.   When I bred my mares with jacks I got mules.  Which are sterile.  I understand the idea behind evolution.  Would not reject it as one of the tools that God uses to accomplish His plan.  Just do not see any compelling evidence for it.

If you think that evolution has anything to do with an animal birthing a whole new species then you do not understand the idea behind evolution. Evolution requires such large time scales because the changes are very small and the progress very gradual. If a dog mated with a cow and produced a sheep, that would be proof of a god, not of evolution. The proof of evolution is in the fact that those small changes can be observed and --thanks to advances in genetics-- tracked across entire populations. Both genetics and the fossil record show how that accumulation of tiny changes has led to the continual development of new species, a process that continues today and produces new species today. There's a reason that the scientific disciplines that have the smallest number of theists are those like biology and geology... exactly those areas which would be more religious if any evidence pointed to a god.