Why is nothing "created?"
The unsurprising answer...
The picture is of flamingoes; I don’t know where, but the picture seemed to represent the question that opens this entry: the flamingoes, like everything else, are busy going about their daily lives: looking for lunch!
They don’t worry about their long necks, adapted to deep diving for the bottom greens upon which they feed; like everything, they’re adapted…
So why is nothing “created?” The short answer is: because their is no “creator!”
The longer answer is that we wish to set aside the result of Darwin’s questioning, where human beings are concerned; we want to make human beings—unlike other beings—”special”
But we cannot, despite the wish to do so: Darwin knew that his work would be controversial; that’s why he waited some 25yrs after his early questioning to have his paper presented at the Royal Society (which was the standard way of “publishing” in his era…)
That era was the late 1850s; 1859, too be exact; the observations which he elaborated upon, however, were made in the 1820s, when he was aboard the vessel HMS Beagle, commanded by his friend
The vessel was charged with seeing the way around the point of South America as a route that might be taken by commercial vessels…
Darwin began his questioning with the discovery that members of a type of finch were identical to those on another island in the Galapagos group, except for their beaks!
Darwin—who was only 25 at the time—wondered why… His answer would be the subject of the Origin of Species (which was the book published in 1859)
Darwin was unabashed enough, & not so much educated, that he missed the opportunity to ask questions: particularly, why the notion of “species” didn’t apply to humans
So he applied it & then found that, like other beings, humans were just a species after all
But, once again, he knew that his deductions would be controversial; so he introduced it by referring, first of all, to the many ways humans had interfered with species at the time, particularly by “breeding” for the traits that they preferred
So the people—particularly the animal owners—were the starting-point for Darwin’s introduction to The Origin of Species; the end-point was (by implication) that humans were just as much a “species” as any other
And that’s why there is nothing “created:” there are only species—adapted as they may be, from flamingoes to ourselves—everywhere in the world!