>>But your God is supposed to be omnipotent. Why does an omnipotent deity need to take short-cuts? If you can say 'let there be light' and bam!, there is, why can't you say 'let there be snake' without putzing around with lizard designs?<<
Why not? Do you presume to judge God's motives for his more entertaining and humorous escapades? Did it ever occur to you that they are there PRECICELY so as to confuse mere mortal men who think they know so much. Sounds like it could be a hoot to God. Remember, EVERY ONE OF US is precious to Him. He really could do that sort of thing for the sake of a SINGLE PERSON. Yes, He is THAT powerful.
These are actually old questions and I'm sure you will get your answer someday.
By the way, I believe 42 is the answer to that age old question: "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin."
Of course, if any of them have an eating disorder, the number could be smaller...
Well, yes I do presume. So your God likes to confuse his precious creatures by sticking inappropriate features into animals?
He sounds like a little boy with an ant farm, torturing the ants. I'm glad I'm an atheist, because I sure don't like the idea of living in aa universe run by an omnipotent seven-year old.
First, you Creationists claim that evolution doesn't make sense because it's inefficient. After all, why would an all-powerful being spend billions of years making man in his own image when he could have done it in a nanosecond?
Then, you claim that God uses inefficient design to trick man.
You can't have it both ways.