Its actually pretty solid evidence against God manually sculpting each living thing brick by brick. A God of infinite power could easily make every animal completely different anatomically, he would have no reason for redundancy in design. My theory is that God created life in a much more elegant manner: by creating the natural process that resulted in life.
Works for me. I don’t see God as a micromanager.
Genesis 1- KJV
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
In Genesis, God creates by executive fiat - "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass." So God created grass in the same sense and in the same way that Caesar built a bridge across the Rhine. It's in the Book.
Exactly. God created the physical laws that made life possible. To believe in a literal creation is akin to believing that everything that ever was, is, or will be was predetermined and free will is an illusion, since nothing, even on the atomic scale, would ever be able to happen without the direct intervention of God.