dhw: So your God went to the trouble of designing millions of different innovations and lifestyles and natural wonders just to “feed everyone” for a few thousand million years, but they weren't even necessary for the production of humans, though humans were his “purpose”.-To get to humans, everyone who survived had to eat. So God used a balance of nature to achieve that goal. I don't know why He chose guided evolution as a method. > > dhw: In view of the above explanation of evolution, Old Texan proverb 3: a blindfolded horse won't have a clue where it's going.-Cowboy philosophy #3: Even a blind horse can get to the destination with a clear thinking cowboy on board.