have you ever heard that if the history of earth was an encylopedia that human life would only be in the second half of the last paragraph of the last book?
so shouldnt we, or some other species, have evolved into the dominant species a long time ago?
Could this possibly hint at some sort of spark? Maybe from God?
2006-06-10 05:40:55 · 24 answers · asked by sean_mchugh6 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
okay im sorry, by dominant i mean intelligent. ...should intelligent life have evolved. intelligence eventualy = dominance
2006-06-10 05:44:25 · update #1
You assume, incorrectly I believe, that there is intelligent life on earth. . .
2006-06-10 05:45:11 · answer #1 · answered by mweller1956 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Intelligent life should have evolved by now, the fact it hasn't should not surprise you in the least, the evolution of any species goes by leaps and bounds depending on natural factors in their environment either stagnates or moves forward. the pure diversity of life on this planet could not happen overnight.
If you want to make this a religious thing while God was busy making us Humans who was making all the other plants and animals fish and fowl, all the way down to the smallest microbe are we to believe God is such a pedantic stickler for detail that in the Seven days, religious pundits believe, he took time out for all this. (He's good but not this good)
When you have studied a little bit more than a Sunday school lesson, read a few more books/ surfed the web or what ever, you will know what Your planet and life is really about.
The Bible is lesson in life not a complete history.
Imagine 2000 years ago, no books no web, you are a teacher trying to explain how did we get here, you don't know Darwin hasn't come along yet. so you make up a story to simplify things, note the word simple, they all believe you and you go on with your story Happy Days.
BUT whats this they put it in a book, your simple story and NOW its FACT. oh well never mind they will learn as they get older.
HUH!
2006-06-10 13:01:39 · answer #2 · answered by Robert B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe intelligent life should have appeared long before we stepped onto the scene. Then again, maybe it was perfect timing. Then again again (lol), maybe we got here too quickly, and that's why the human race is as messed up as it is.
I am a theistic evolutionist. That means I believe that God created us, and He used evolution as the tool to do it. Believing thus, I think that it was God's plan to have us show up exactly when we did.
I always find it humorous when creationists say that evolution can't be proven. If they witnessed a newt give birth to a lizard with their own eyes, they wouldn't believe it. What standard of proof do they want? And how does their own theory that everything appeared out of a vacume within six 24 hour days of each other stack up against the evidence for evolution?
When creationists say that they believe in literal creation because "the bible says so," what they're really saying is, "That is what I interpret it to mean."
They might as well add, "and if you don't think like I do, you are an idiot who will burn in Hell!"
Whatever.
Evolution follows its own timeline. Not ours.
2006-06-10 13:25:24 · answer #3 · answered by elchistoso69 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard about evolution of intelligence, that the present generation is more intelligent than the previous generations. In other words, that we are evolving into more intelligent, dominant humans.
There is also a saying to this effect:
A foolish man would keep repeating his mistakes.
A wise man would learn from his mistakes.
But the wisest of them all would learn from other people's mistakes, not having to learn the hard way.
Based on human history, about history constantly repeating itself, I would say that man is not all the wiser or intelligent. Man is degrading and the previous generations are actually more wise and intelligent. Technology is not the standard. We may send more people to space in the future, but for what? Look at what is being done already on earth. Man is wasting away everything, including themselves.
It is the result of the depravity of sin. Wickedness is a poison that ruins everything, earth and man. And violence begets violence.
2006-06-10 13:08:02 · answer #4 · answered by TJ Zez 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah God did have a lot to do with it. But the dinosaurs were the dominant species. Plus God took his time, that doesn't mean that he didn't cause evolution or plan everything the way it has gone. Science and religion CAN work together!
2006-06-10 12:43:11 · answer #5 · answered by happypanda03 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a good look around you. Can you honestly say that we as a race of beings have evolved ??? I don't think so. If in fact we had evolved, to more than a race of greedy, blood thristy savages. Then we would be taking better care of all of mankind.
No more war, no more hunger, no more taking of land from other.
After all the Mother Earth belongs to herself, and not the temporary creatures known as man. She was here first, and will continue to be here long after we have killed ourselfs off.
2006-06-10 12:53:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the kind of thinking I like to see coming from Christians. I'm an athiest myself, but it's good to see people of faith taking a rational perspective. It gives me some hope.
So often on this site you see Christians irrationally denying science and the fossil record because it doesn't fit in with a strictly literal interpretation of the bible.
It always seemed obvious to me that an intelligent theist would examine the possibilty that god used his divine influence on the mechanism of evolution to bring about his will.
I myself don't think that we need a god in the equation. But I like the way you're thinking.
2006-06-10 12:49:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It DID evolve millions of years ago. Yes, humans are only 4 million years old or so and the earth is about 4.5 Billion years old. 1000 times older. When smart humans didn't always have fire, weapons, clothing, shelter, food, etc, we were still mostly pretty lame mostly. Tigers could out run us and sharper teeth for example.
2006-06-10 12:45:37 · answer #8 · answered by kurticus1024 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There were dominant species millions of years ago. They were just left out of your good book. Could this possibly hint at mythology?
2006-06-10 12:43:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was actually more like 5% of the book. And no. Evolution is a process which takes a long time and only works by mutations to organisms.
2006-06-10 12:45:04 · answer #10 · answered by Br 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From the very beginning of recorded history we have had, murder, lust, rape, money problems, illness and so many other calamities that I am unable to list them all.
Now, if the evolutionist are correct, and I think not, then it would only seem reasonable that evolution, our evolving, would have taken us to a level of civility that would have eliminated at least some of the perversions of man.
But it hasn't now has it.
2006-06-10 12:52:22 · answer #11 · answered by drg5609 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋