"My question would be; if evolution can be seen as an effective method to provide variety among species, and the necessary change that lets them survive and prosper with challenge and time, then why cannot evolution be seen as an efficient method to design various creatures and entities?"
"I don't know if that is what you were thinking of with that question. I'll need to think about that more if you want more answer."
I don't know what I was thinking of with that question, or whether I was thinking of anything in particular. It's just one of those permutations that come up.
I do want you to think further about if you will. The answer to it would seem to revolve around just how involved God was with how the world and all in it came to be.
Some see God as a baker, toiling endlessly to produce scores of animal cracker beings to fill the Earth. I don't see Him that way.
I see God as a potter, lifting the clay and shaping it, making it into something that will be useful to Him for His own purposes, and breathing into it His breath as He brings it to life.
Perhaps the spinning Earth was only needed as a potter's wheel. As Mr. Thompson has said, He does work in mysterious ways.
Dizzying concept, no?
//Dizzying concept, no?//
rather limited actually
Yes.
There is Scripture to support both points of view, that God set it into motion and let it go and that God is actively involved in sustaining and directing every aspect of it.
We don’t know and couldn’t tell the difference anyway so the whole point is moot.