It takes a ton of depressing faith to believe that somehow by some biological miracle a monkey or ape became our parents. Just watch the National geographic channel,,,that is one uglyyyyyyyyyy bunch of creatures...I took a quick look at myself after I got out of the shower the other day....I saw no resembling commonalities...but just looking at my .curves and my eyes as they looked back at me in the mirror made me have an awe moment....I see an artist at work in my shape...more talented than the italian sculpters...this one makes statues that breathe and laugh....and love and kiss...and think and plan...and worship Him who made us all...sweet Jesus.....I also thought of what a minimal amount of time it would take me if my bf was an atheist...I would give him enough to think about for a million yrs...just seeing my complicated soul at work...He would eventually swear there was a God....
2006-06-16 08:39:20 · 16 answers · asked by ? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, God is alive and He is very real!
2006-06-28 03:25:55 · answer #1 · answered by Carol M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you think another species, intelligent or not, would care how beautiful you are? Let me tell you a little story about beauty.
Beauty is the subjection of your unconscious mind expressing emotions through symbology. The beauty and appreciation of a mountain top say, is that it is grandiose in size and a reflection or symbol for what you feel deep down inside of you. It is a representation of the beauty you emote.
Now there are two ways of perceiving the existence of all things around you: Romantically, or classically, and varying combinations of the two. Rather, form and function. You may see a motorcycle and think that it is a beautiful work of art, streamline and sleek. It may excite you to hear the engine rev. That is romantic. Seeing it for its form. If this motorcycle you see is merely a collection of parts with specific means of operation working in unison to form an amlagam of a machine, then you are seeing it for its function. Classical. When we see things that appear beautiful to us, it is generally because we do not understand how or why it is what it is. The more we begin to understand these functions, it tends to take away from the beauty of a particular thing. It loses some of its luster, and appeal. The motorcycle is an example.
You, my dear, are a collection of parts as well. An amalgam of DNA. Purely organic. If I were to understand what makes up your physical countenance and form, then you would appear less beautiful. Seeing your form, your sleek curves as you say, and having feelings within me arise, as I am seeing you through a romantic viewpoint, then all the things that physically equate to your entire body are not my thoughts. I am not thinking logically what makes you, and conceding my ignorance to the work of God. If I were to not understand that your beauty were a symbolic representation of all my emotions, then I would have to ponder what could create such a beauty. How did this beauty come to be? It certainly MUST be the work of God. I believe these are the reasons you feel this way about beauty.
Who's to say a monkey is ugly? I must say, I have to agree with the concept of narcissism. You find monkeys ugly for whatever reason and determine that you cannot spawn from something so grotesque. However, there are many severely physically unappealing people that have beautiful children. You may see an ape and think that there is no way that ape could be your progenitor, when in fact, you are of the race of man. Mankind is this ape we speak of even today. We just look different from other species that may be closely related. I hope you understand that mankind was not once an ape, but is an ape. An ape that looks just like us. Earlier on we may have been much hairier, with a cruder, sloping countenance, but this was still man. Man is man, a chimp is a chimp, a baboon is a baboon, a lion is a lion, and a tiger is a tiger, and so forth. I cannot answer exactly we how evolved into our sophistication, but then no one can. If it makes you happy to believe in the Lord, then so be it. If you are narcissistic, then so be that too.
I hope this clears the smoke.
2006-06-23 18:26:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
True, God is the Grand Architecht of all life, but could He not have worked through evolution to create us? In Genesis it simply says we were made from clay (the first molecules to form together to make a living cell came from clay), but isn't God the Authority over all things and could have put us in relation to apes? If we don't, why do we share so much DNA with them (96% shared with a chimpanzee) and why are so many other things similar? Sure, you can look at the National Geographic Channel, but go to a place like the Bronx Zoo sometime and look the gorillas in the eye. Watch them with their children and each other... there is a connection there, something that goes more than skin deep. Did God make us best and last? Surely, for we are His beloved, but do not put God in a box and say that we are so far seperated from the rest of His creation... we are closer than you think. Blessings,
Brian
2006-06-16 08:46:29 · answer #3 · answered by b_switek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You degrade one of God's creatures for your own benefit? "Narcissism" barely does such insolent behavior justice. Pride comes before a fall, overconfident one... I know. I've been there.
I also know that the atheists are every bit as religious as you. They too can be obnoxiously close-minded and thoughtless.
Had either side bothered to attempt to understand science they would realize that it is firmly founded in agnosticism - not knowing anything for sure. Otherwise, you rush to experimental quagmires such as observer bias. Discovery cannot afford a close-minded expectation that everything can be explained away one way or another such that evidence to the contrary is ignored.
This is why religion - including atheism - has no place in science.
By the way, if you are looking at gorillas, then you obviously have not paid any attention in science class or read much about evolution. Metaphorically (and I know you are capable of dealing in metaphors), you would be calling your cousin or nephew your parents! Our evolutionary predecessor - ASSUMING hypotheses about evolution are correct - is now extinct. Our closest living "relatives" are the chimpanzee and the bonobo - perhaps metaphorical siblings. The gorilla is not as closely related, being metaphorically perhaps a cousin related to us through some of our great grandparents!
As for boyfriends, don't be a fool. They will swear whatever it takes to get into your pants.
2006-06-19 03:59:11 · answer #4 · answered by Cheshire Cat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your sense of argument leaves a lot to be desired.
Firstly, you claim that you are the product of "an artist at work," yet our monkey friends are "uglyyyyyyyyyy," despite being the work of the same artist. Are you criticizing god?
Now you see no "resembling commonalities" between people and apes. You don't see the forward set eyes, opposable thumbs, and nearly identical bone-structure as having any resemblance? How can you say that?
Now, what's this about your boyfriend?
2006-06-16 17:09:36 · answer #5 · answered by wrathpuppet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put the mirror down for a second, evolution is real regardless of how much you look in the mirror... the facts don't change. Besides I'm sure a gorilla looking into a mirror has the capacity to think their beautiful too.
2006-06-28 00:29:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is.. ridiculous.. that's granted.. but the creator is also ridiculous.. sure.. maybe one is more ridiculous than the other... but the point that they are both ridiculous still stands... in mathematics.. if something is not false.. then it must be true.. and if something is not true.. than in must be false.. the case of evolution versus creation isn't anything like the situation of true versus false.. the fact is.. they are both ridiculous.. does that mean that there does exist a non-ridiculous means of our existence? No.. the means of our existence maybe just that absolutely ridiculous.... for all you know, the entire universe was sneezed from a gigantic beast... sounds ridiculous? But since all the theories do so far, that one must be reasonable right? .. well reason has nothing to do with it.. You can not make bricks without clay! You're just going to have to deal with your mounds of dirt, and accept that they are nothing but, mounds of dirt.
2006-06-18 20:45:35 · answer #7 · answered by kerbourchardalan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love evolution!!! Man's attempt to deny God and author his own
beginning.
Know why the missing link is missing? Because he was never there. Such amazing example as Peking man, who , it was discovered, was built from a pigs tooth.
All we have records of are other non- successful primates.
Seems to me more faith is required for evolution than creationism.
2006-06-16 08:49:13 · answer #8 · answered by cowboymanhrsetrnr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's good that ignorance is not contagious.
It's even better that it can be cured by education.
Perhaps you should read about the subject before you continue posting questions revealing your ignorance.
2006-06-16 08:51:27 · answer #9 · answered by Left the building 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe we as humans come from ape. There is no definative proof. I do believe in evolution though. Is it so hard to believe in both?
2006-06-16 08:48:55 · answer #10 · answered by proto 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should educate yourself a bit on evolution and such. You really don't know what you're talking about. That's all I'll bother saying on this one...
2006-06-16 08:43:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋