No. The animals with spikes survived while those without were eaten.
The animals did not mentally develop spikes because they needed them for survival - God did that for them.
How boring if God just creates everything. How much more interesting for God to use evolution and watch how things turn out!
God created the Universe. We are just on the first steps to understanding how God actually does things.
The way you explain it (with or without God) makes more sense then the way they explain it, which was more of my point with my post.