Evolution as evidence for atheism

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Why would god select evolution as a means of creating new species and having them adapt over time. Evolution is a massively wasteful process creating many damaging mutations which leads to unecessary suffering in the lifeforms it works upon? Either evolution is false, which seems unlikely given all available evidence (here come the fundies!), or god is uncaring and wasteful of resource in a finite universe. Evolution is more likely on the basis that atheism is true.

I once heard the belief that 'god' was a scientist from another world. He was genetically creating creatures, then bringing them here, as if this were his secret test field. Maybe nuts, maybe not. I could believe that far more than the crazy theory about ribs. It even gives credence to the 'missing links'! I'm not saying it's my theory, because it's not. But it's an interesting one to throw around when this topic pops up.