Some mammals have no teeth but they still possess the gene for tooth enamel. Why did God include this? Can evolution better account for this gene? [Spirituality & Religion]
The creationist often likes to ascribe genetic similarity to a common designer; the potter using the same clay, as it were. That this imposes human limits on god notwithstanding, why would god (as a perfect designer) include tooth enamel genes in animals like baleen whales with no teeth?
Of course evolution tells us that baleen whales evolved from land-going mammals and amphibious mammals like ambulocetus which of course had teeth. Same again for any other toothless animal like a platypus.
This is a bit of a gotcha question, i admit but it does present a good example of what i identify as the flaw in the "common designer" explanation for shared DNA.
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Fun fact the word Lord, which replaced God's name in the bible, originally was the title for deity named baal. Who was kinda a demon, so a better question is why did they remove God's name and replace it with a demons name?
@WeighedDown The word Baal just means lord, as in master or husband. He was the king God deity of the Canaanite religion and much like the Greeks, the god's name was very much just who they were.
The word "Lord" to refer to God however is usually Yahweh in Hebrew and Kyrios in Greek. In fact I don't think the Hebrew ever mentions Baal to refer to God.
