Wow! I guess your question shows that the professor portrayed in the movie “God is not Dead” is not just a caricature! Allowing for the fact that you are recalling your professor’s words after a space of 10 years, I have to say that his argument is just laughable. How can professional academics at our state universities get away with such nonsense?
In the first place, who is supposed to believe (1) God created the world that we know including humans in their present form? Not even biblical fundamentalists who believe that the world was created in six, consecutive, 24-hour days a few thousand years ago believe such a thing. So-called Young Earth Creationists hold that God created certain “kinds” of animals and plants which were then allowed to evolve. They therefore have no problem whatsoever with canine or equine evolution from a primitive ancestor. As for vestigial parts, like the human coccyx or tailbone, creationists can point to the useful functions which these parts serve, like anchoring the sphincter muscles that close the anus, in the absence of which—well, you get the idea. The claim that the resemblance of a human embryo to a tadpole is evidence of human evolutionary development is an embarrassing and discredited argument.
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