[atlaw]

Well, if you're making a car, you usually use rubber tires, metal body, electronics, a combustion engine, and gas. You use the same thing for motorcycles and go carts. You don't usually use glass for the structural elements or mud for gasoline. ... Why would an intelligent being - like us for the auto and like God for creation - use different materials when it was not necessary.

Well, first of all, glass is used in a great many automotive structural parts. Second, you seem to be suggesting that God is nothing more than a lazy (or at least unimaginative) shop mechanic? Kind of demeaning for the omnipotent master of the universe, isn't it?

[Wicket]

Not at all. I'm saying that a creator with intelligence and abilities beyond what we can imagine created a universe that is also beyond what we can imagine. He chose what He created and how it was created. To use the same basic design to make an elephant, a bat, a whale, and a lizard to me shows wondrous imagination and creativity.