A fair question. One might also ask, "Why would God want to cause the Big Bang and evolution?" Since the Bible tells us that God's greatest interest is in the relationship He has with the people on this planet, why would He create a process in which He had to sit around for a few billion years while He watched the slime mold turned into humanity? It seems pointless. As God, He can do what He wants, but the slow, ruthless process of evolution to enable "life" to give rise to a species He could relate to, reveal Himself to, and ultimately to redeem, seems a waste of valuable resources.
Secondly, if God created everything in a bang, followed by billions of years of evolutionary change, then He lied to us in the early chapters of Genesis. A common theory is that the creation story of Gen. 1-2, up through the story of Noah and the flood, are myth, and that real history picks up when Abram comes on the scene. But where does the book of Genesis indicate that myth ends, and real history begins? The Bible doesn't give us the luxury of that convenient dismissal of the first chapters of Genesis.
" why would He create a process in which He had to sit around for a few billion years while He watched the slime mold turned into humanity? It seems pointless. As God, He can do what He wants, but the slow, ruthless process of evolution to enable "life" to give rise to a species He could relate to, reveal Himself to, and ultimately to redeem, seems a waste of valuable resources."
Do you realize you are making no sense whatsoever? If God is God then he is outside of time and all other limitations. What could a "waste of valuable resources" mean in such a context?
Regarding your question why would God wait for a couple of billion years - that is our time frame. For God, even a trillion years is nothing. He created time.
Regarding your question about relationships - it is arrogant of us humans to think God's relationship to us is more important than God's relationship to other creations. Including slime mold.
Regarding your second paragraph, God doesn't lie. People do. I'm sure you follow what I'm saying.
Best wishes,
Regarding your question why would God wait for a couple of billion years - that is our time frame. For God, even a trillion years is nothing. He created time.
Regarding your question about relationships - it is arrogant of us humans to think God's relationship to us is more important than God's relationship to other creations. Including slime mold.
Regarding your second paragraph, God doesn't lie. People do. I'm sure you follow what I'm saying.
Best wishes,
"As God, He can do what He wants,"
Such as be or do anything that is completely beyond our capability of understanding, which would then require a simplification of the 'real' Genesis story?