Not if people actually understand evolution. There were six major extinctions before mamals became dominant (on land) and before humans even emerged. If he purpose was for humans, then it was like walking around the block to go next door.

@snytiger6 it wouldn't matter if there was 1,000 mass extinctions the sheer fact that life persisted and adapted through every one of those is evidence of design. Besides in the Christian faith he created the fish, then the birds, then mammals. Anyone familiar with modern theory of dinosaurs knows birds are dinosaurs.

@Biosteelman You kind of skip over the bit that if there were a creator, then man was more of an afterthought.

It is very easy to cherry pick facts to try to fit your beliefs. I'd hardly consider the Bible a godo source, as virtually all fo the stories can be traced to earlier beliefs from other religions, and every one of those previous religions had more than just one god (so who was the creator?) The bible says nothign of micro organisms, which existed far longer than multi celled creatures There is mentions of unicorns and other mythical creatures in the bible though..

There is also the unanswerable question of "who created the creator?"

Let's take a different approach and look at insects. who designs the tunnels of an ant colony or an insect mound? There is order to them, yet no inscts lives long enough to create an overall design. The design although similar to other colonies, is unique, but built piece meal over many generations ove time, with ech generations contributing a bit more and int the case termites into great structues relative to the size of individuals. The buildighn is random, yet the structure get built with no plan or panned design. No designer.

Life on earth is much the same way only on a much different (llarger/massive) scale. It is random, with no real designer. Just because there is a semblance of order (as in the termite mound) does not mean it had to be purposefully designed.

Just curious. Have you ever actually read "On The Origin of Species"?

@snytiger6 if you're gonna keep picking on the Bible specifically it was written by guys in a desert explaining the Universe to other guys in a desert. It is written to their knowledge of the world at the time. It would be like teaching geometric algebra to a preschooler. None of It would make sense and your entire purpose would be lost.

I have not read it in its entirety. But you do realize even after writing that book Darwin and every evolutionary scientist until The 60's were religious. Think about that for a while. The guy and other contributors who wrote and described evolution didn't think it unfolded their faith it only reconfirmed it.

@ThorR You need to fry them twice.

I wish that weren't true.