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General Religion & Beliefs
Both faith in God and the theory of Evolution are belief systems that explain how mankind came to be and either explicitly or implicitly explain the purpose of mankind. Remember that unless you were around during the origins of life, you cannot conclusively say that you have verified it as true. There is evidence to support it, but faith (believing something that you have not seen personally) perhaps fills in the gaps. Meaning that we believe in something because of our best judgment with the evidence that we have seen. I don't mean to imply that evolution and creationism are entirely mutually exclusive, only to get at the idea that in some ways we choose to believe evolution, when we may not have conclusive personal verification of facts.
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(This is my point of view as a person who strongly believes in God) I dont believe that you have to either belive in science if not God....as if the two had absoluetly nothing to do with eachother. I have faith that they have much to do with eachother. I have learned throughout my life that we human beings were made of the image of God, that we were made similar to him. So if we are such wonderful, intelligent, and creative creatures who have come so far in science, I would suppose (and strongly believe) that God must be the Ultimate Scientist. Why is it that we think that Gods work is just a finger snap without any process that can leave scientific evidence (perhaps purposely for our own intellectual development), Look at our bodies, look at how complex and amazing they are. Look at this Earth, the planets, the universe. Why is it that everytime there is scientific evidence we think that God never did any of it? Because people believe the bible literraly, word by word story by story. I believe that when those stories in the bible actually occured, people were illiterate so they could not write it down. Stories were told orally generation to generation until finally people started to write them down. I dont think God appeared and told the prophets to quote him word by word but I am sure there was some kind of divine inspiration in those men. So just because Adam and Eve is a story that seems scientifically unlikely, those people didnt know much about education and were ver...(This is my point of view as a person who strongly believes in God) I dont believe that you have to either belive in science if not God....as if the two had absoluetly nothing to do with eachother. I have faith that they have much to do with eachother. I have learned throughout my life that we human beings were made of the image of God, that we were made similar to him. So if we are such wonderful, intelligent, and creative creatures who have come so far in science, I would suppose (and strongly believe) that God must be the Ultimate Scientist. Why is it that we think that Gods work is just a finger snap without any process that can leave scientific evidence (perhaps purposely for our own intellectual development), Look at our bodies, look at how complex and amazing they are. Look at this Earth, the planets, the universe. Why is it that everytime there is scientific evidence we think that God never did any of it? Because people believe the bible literraly, word by word story by story. I believe that when those stories in the bible actually occured, people were illiterate so they could not write it down. Stories were told orally generation to generation until finally people started to write them down. I dont think God appeared and told the prophets to quote him word by word but I am sure there was some kind of divine inspiration in those men. So just because Adam and Eve is a story that seems scientifically unlikely, those people didnt know much about education and were very primitave. That is how they communicated their thoughts and amazements of human life, with these amazing stories. The bible begins with the human race (human race, homo sapiens) So what happened before that? Our human race began to tell stories and pass them down since their existence, not the existence of other species. 7 days and 7 nights? Remember the bible is very metaphorical, "Gods word" is very metaphorical. What does 7 days and 7 nights mean to us compared to what it meant to our ancestor or even to God? Why cant we think that perhaps just like we discover and experiment God cannot do the same?(less) -
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Link is bs. No where does it say that they produced different species. Showing plain old adaptation, some prefer micro-evolution, but stays in the same species. Note many of the socalled hybrids are sterile. Total dead ends that shoot down the evolving theory. Also no where does a hybrid being produced change species as evolution dictates. The mice are mice the dogs are dogs etc.
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A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers' eyes. It's the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait.
And because the species in question is a bacterium, scientists have been able to replay history to show how this evolutionary novelty grew from the accumulation of unpredictable, chance events.
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Lenski's experiment is also yet another poke in the eye for anti-evolutionists, notes Jerry Coyne, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago. "The thing I like most is it says you can get these complex traits evolving by a combination of unlikely events," he says. "That's just what creationists say can't happen."
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It is well known that biologists have found 95% similarity between human and chimp DNA. They state that where the human differences occur that they are non-random insertions.
The word 'theory' when used in conjunction with the word 'evolution' is just a euphemism. It softens the blow of taking such 'theories' to their logical conclusion.
What you mortals refer to as 'God' has obviously built on prior work if you also believe that he created human beings.
A more germane line of questioning might be about why your 'God' 'created' human beings in the first place and why did your 'God' subsequently commit mass global genocide at least twice in recorded ancient history as recorded in your bibles. Once by water(Noah) and once by fire (Abraham). -
The world was only destroyed once with noah, the fire one was a city not the whole world you need to study a little more before you start trying to make "educated" conclusion and the reason he destroyed it in the first place was that people like you were all over the world!!! A rescerch was conducted in 98 that stated "There is more of a possibilty of winning the state lottery 1ce evrey year for 200 years than there is for an apes DNA being able to adjust to form the unbeliveably complex DNA of a human being"
now licifer i dare you to win the lottery 2 times in your life no no no 1ce in your life. -
First, I am no mortal. Show some respect in that regard.
Second, multiple cities were directly destroyed in what is now the Sinai peninsula and the toxins from this destruction were blown across the planet resulting in the indirect destruction of most of humanity at the time. It took over 70 of your years before humanity started to recover.
Third, I completely agree that apes did not just turn into human beings. Your 'God' had a head start with already 95% of the work already done by evolution, all that was required was some tweaking for the remaining 5%.
Lastly, who would destroy their own children because they disobeyed them ? How do mortals justify such a thing by a 'God' who claims self perfection in every way ? -
Yes there is a lot of evidence and I as a believer do not feel a bit offended by the idea of evolution. I find it to be a wonderful miracle as well how it all could have possibly started. About the stories in the bible about Noah and Abraham, you probably dont agree with me but there is a lot of corruption in this world that is not going to get any better. Just like today there are people who do things that have bad consequences, so did people back then. And God always sent out a warning for people to come to him and leave behind there destructive ways but people did not want to listen. These stories as I mentioned have a lor of metaphorical meaning of how important it is to stay firm in one's beliefs and to have faith that if you are with God you will not have to worry. I know you probably dont believe or understand this, it might sound stupid to you, but I just wanted to explain, respond and discuss your comment.
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I agree with angel it takes faith. We believe in things we can't see all the time. A lot of us believe in ghost, we believe in love ,and most of us still believe that there are good people too but do we really see much of this ... no just faith it's all real.
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I don't think you understand. a scientific theory is different than a normal theoryhere is a website to help explain it to you
http://www.fsteiger.com/theor...