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How would the world look, if God really designed it?

The other day I thought about the following question:

"What kind of evidence would it take for me to believe God created the universe?"

First of all, let us assume, which most religions do, that the human race, or a specific chosen people are the crowning achievement of God's creation.

If God created the universe with the intention of eventually creating us, I argue that the world would look different than it does today, in the following respects:

• The universe would be boiling over with intelligent life, perhaps more intelligent than us
• There would be many more other inhabitable planets
• There would be no need for war and disease, because the survival of the fittest is not an essential part of a God-designed universe (humans would already be created perfect, and there would be no need for natural selection).
• The earth would not have as many uninhabited areas as it does today. It's a waste of precious space to have so much land nearly uninhabited (Sahara, Northern Canada, central Australia, Siberia, Antarctica, Greenland).
  
• The would be no evidence for dead-ends of evolution and no intermediate fossils. We would not be able to find bones of Australopithecines, Paranthropus, Homo Erectus, and other such extinct species, whose historical existence is well-established.

I believe the evidence of extinct species, and evolutionary dead-ends is the strongers argument against intelligent design, because it means God must have been making COUNTLESS mistakes to get to its ultimate creation. In fact he made those mistakes every step of the way.

more interesting quotes about religion

p.221 of The God Delusion

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God - Martin Luther

Whoever wants to be Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason ... Reason should be destroyed in all Christians - Martin Luther