This question isn't intended as an antagonism or an attack on anyone's beliefs. Rather, I am curious as to how religion can repudiate, cogently, such overwhelming evidenciary support for evolution.
2006-07-27 19:02:03 · 31 answers · asked by Tired S 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well...Christianity doesn't need to explain DNA uniformity...so I won't take you question as an antagonism. Did you also know that pigs are also extremely close genetically to humans? We use their skin for graphs with burns...
However, I must ask in return...if man came from apes...why are their still apes, why didn't all of them evolve? Also, with that...why hasn't man continued to evolve into something even higher?
I'm sure you know that Charles Darwin was a Christian and that he renounced evolution (his own theory). Just something to think about...
Grace to you and God Bless...
P.S. I can only speak for myself and my family...we didn't come from apes, pigs or any other animal (not even the stork). I do have a long lineage to go back too...My greatest Grandfather was named Adam and my greatest Grandmother, Eve. Yes, I know they goofed up in the garden...but they are still bones of my bones and flesh of my flesh.
2006-07-27 19:05:00 · answer #1 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually it varies from 97% up to your figure.
It's the 6 million extra or missing genes and 35 million different genes that make humans.
God created everything, so why wouldn't there be similarities.
If we take these similaries into other fields, such as chemistry, one has to ask why your car doesn't work on pentane fule instead of octane fuel. There are only a couple of different atoms in the benzine ring!
You can drink regular water, but you should not drink heavy water, which is made from regular water.
H20 is drinkable water and h202 is hydrogen peroxide a rather strong bleach.
U235 can make atomic bombs while u234 can't.
It's not an "overwhelming evidenciary support for evolution" it's an overwhelming evidenciary support for how similar life is on Earth.
Now, in a few thousand years science may be able to show gene changes in samples taken now and in those times. They currnetly can't show how the changes have occured or could occur.
How much longer before the, scientficially viewed at least, appendix, which seems to serve no function, vanishes!
Why hasn't evolution removed it in all these thousands of years!
The fact remains that a parrot can talk words, but a chimp can't!
Maybe someone should compare our DNA to a parrot!
PEople keep harping on Evolution, but no has documented much beyond virus adaptive changes.
Evolution works rapidly at the viral level, but in complex creatures it is hard to pin down!
This does not dispute evolution, it simply puts it into perspective as being a very, very, very soft science.
Nothing beyond similarities are yet proven and we didn't genomes to see the similarities! Eyes, nose, chin, mouth, tongue harms with fingers, social behavior, walks rather erect!
Most mutations die out. Most animals kill off the sick and weak. Any variant from a Chimp or Gorilla would be a social outcast.
How did a strong gene pool derive and why did they mutate in numbers!
That is required to generate a new spieces!
The same genes have to mutat on a regular basis and the matings would have to be primarily between those in the new gene pool.
That's a staggering concept to think about!
And more importnatly, why are there still chimps!
I mean some changed and some didn't!
Why doesn't the whole speices change!
Dinosaurs vanish and sharks survive!
Where are the 5, 20, 50 speices gaps between Chimps and Humans and how come they didn't stick around or survive! Where is the Homo Erectus in the jungle! Is that Big Foot! Science doesn't believe in Big Foot!
There are too many lose ends!
2006-07-28 02:42:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same way anything can be explained: God did it that way.
There is no fact anwhere that the believer can't explain, once the fact is discovered, as being how God did it. They can even come up with all sorts of messages God was sending by doing it that way. And this is true no matter what the fact is. So if, for instance, the DNA was hugely different then the believer would say that God did it that way to show there's a big difference between Man, who is God's image, and other creatures which aren't. But when it's found that the DNA is almost identical they say that God did it that way because he wanted to show that even if the bodies are similar the important difference- having a soul- is huge. No matter what the outcome, they'll retroactively justify it.
One of the cool things about science, though, is that it makes predictions ahead of time. Evolution says that chimps and humans have relatively recent common ancestors. Thus we expected ahead of time that the DNA would be very similar. Because it makes predictions and doesn't just rationalize facts later I find science a lot more fascinating and useful.
2006-07-28 02:09:13 · answer #3 · answered by thatguyjoe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And where are you getting your figures from? How many chimps have you seen building 5 bedroom homes and moving to Piscataway, NJ. Sorry to anyone that lives there. I haven't seen any at the local In and Out burger joint here in CA either. After so many years in evolution, don't you think some trees should be walking around and talking by now? Something should be evolving everyday. Basically, there are muliplicity of codes built into the DNA codes. I would appreciate you putting more information up to tell us where you found your statistics. Don't make up stuff on DNA that isn't true. Even the scientists that don't believe in God have as many questions about DNA as when they first started. There is nothing that has been proven as a fact. Please don't let junk science to limit your ablity to think and reason and to gather information and to ask experts.
2006-07-28 02:18:20 · answer #4 · answered by Monique B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
99% identical to the common pig, too. Some of us push it a bit further, in my opinion.
I'm sure it is because of a lack of imagination on the part of the creator...
The explanations for this will not lack in imagination, though. I'm looking forward to reading them.
Dustin Lochart
PS: the question didn't ask if you think or agree that mankind CAME from apes
To the person who thinks that no two humans even have that percent of identical DNA, you are wrong. When they compare the DNA of humans, they are comparing the VERY small part that isn't identical. Pay attention in Science class. You might actually learn something.
2006-07-28 02:20:23 · answer #5 · answered by Dustin Lochart 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even that uniformity does not prove evolution irrefutably. The nearest to human blood is Pig's blood. How come that?
Evolution is assumed from the visual similarities. That can be taken as an evidence of same wisdom behind all these too. Suppose when I draw few pictures. They will have common features that shows my nature and intelligence. A mere coincidence of these features are taken by evolutionists as their invention. The true Creator must be laughing at it.
2006-07-28 02:44:13 · answer #6 · answered by latterviews 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, first of all it says in the Bible that God created heaven and earth and everything in it. Now, if we were really to be evolved from "chimpanzees" wouldn't that mean that the chimpanzees would be nearly extinct? One of the most common books is the Bible, if you were to read the Bible, in the beginning, you would find out that God gave Adam life and with that life Adam was the one who gave all the animals names. Now, if we really originated from a monkey, then where did the english language come from, matter a fact where did any language come from? Common sense can tell anyone that we couldn't have been "made up" from monkeys. And just because scientist proved it to be true, doesn't make it true beacause they can also prove that 2+2=1, but common sence already tells you that its 4. So don't believe everything that scientist say, question the theory, don't always stick to it. And if we were really from monkeys, wouldn't that mean that God doesn't exsist? So if they prove that we came from monkeys, they would also have to prove where the monkeys came from, and that is something that most scientist don't want to say, the key origin. Well I trurly hope I shed some light on your question and helped you out in some way.
( If they really wanted to, they can find the DNA resemblance between humans and fish, but they chose not to because people in their right minds would or should know that it is physically impossible for fish to turn into humans.)
2006-07-28 02:27:23 · answer #7 · answered by pretty1girl13 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes may be .
But can science why only humans can think logically and express emotionally so expansivelly . Dont give me crap of how some animals can feel and think etc .,. Humans are the highest in the chain of living beings and have a very advanced level of soul realisation and can also think logically than any other living beings . It is a concidence that chimps have DNA siilar to Humans but does Body count or does the matter in the head count when you compare them ???
Unfortunately Christianity has nothing to offer except story of Adam and Eve ,,,, blah blah blah and so on ,......................
2006-07-28 02:11:06 · answer #8 · answered by loverindia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't know that it was the responsibility of the entire Christian community (2.6 billion) to explan anything about DNA.
If this isn't intended as an antagonism or attack on anyone's belief, then why don't you ask a biology teacher or a zoologist instead of an internet chat room?
2006-07-28 02:09:42 · answer #9 · answered by joe_on_drums 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know why Christianity, per se, would have to explain it. The denomination that I was raised in taught evolution--as long as we believed that when "man" became a conscious being, it was because God breathed a soul into him. Why should the idea of Christ dying for our sins (the basic premise of Christianity, I believe), be mutually exclusive of the idea of evolution? Isn't it possible that God let things evolve, and left puzzles for humans to try to solve?
2006-07-28 02:10:09 · answer #10 · answered by Joey's Back 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋