I think too many people misunderstand evolution, here's a lesson for you religious folk?

Question

Nowhere does it state that we came from monkeys. It states that at one point there was a primate before there were monkeys or humans that spread over an area, from there one group found that living in trees and being hairy was more fit, and through natural selction the ones most fit lived on and the ones that couldn't quite make it died out until over the years the ones that exhibited the most fit traits had the traits so bred into their lineage that they seemed a different species than the primate they once were. Now they are all the different monkeys we have.

Another group of the same primate didn't have as many land predators so they stayed on the ground. Due to climate they didn't need hair, so they shed it or never grew it, they needed to grab more and so learned how to walk on two legs. Eventually they became our humans after many many years. Do we know how life started? No. Will we ever? Probably not, we weren't there. Does this prove there is a God? Absolutely not.

Now this theory is all made from logic and what scientific evidence has lasted through the ages. Your faith that you put this theory down with is all based on completely blind acceptance and attributing everything we don't understand to a magical deity, why is that such a better decision? So until you have concrete evidence you shouldn't try to oppose something that has so much evidence and logic behind it just because some old people said some God wrote some book and said it was true.

Answer 1

When the science community makes a discovery or modifies a theory they publish a paper for all to view, speculate on, and debate. Invariably such discoveries open up our simplistic minds and expand our horizons. Examples would be the works of Einstein and Hawking, to name a very small sample.

So why do preachers have to continually pump their one theory (God exists) down our throats? Why do they stand on street corners and hand out leaflets, yell at passers by, gather huge crowds and push unsuspecting victims over in the belief they will be cured of whatever mental or physical ailment invades them, if they just believe in the theory of God?

Why can’t the believers of religious theory just behave in a decent manner, in much the same way as the scientific community does?

Answer 2

Oh. OK.
Cool, I guess I can live with that...but...has anyone ever found the fossils of the common ancestor? Any fossils of the two groups in transition from one form to the next?
Hey, I don't know how God did it, either. Could have used evolution, I don't know. I suspect that nobody is really sure. Evidently, scientific theory changes as new facts turn up, and hey, that can only be a GOOD thing! Go, science!! But, how do you absolutely KNOW that a new fact will NEVER turn up that completely disproves evolution? Or is "science" so wed to evolution, that such a fact would not be recognized, or would be completely ignored, anyhow?
Hey, just asking......

Answer 3

First, why are you so insecure in your belief that you feel you must attempt to put us Christians down? Many of us have learned and accepted evolution for years. After learning both sides of the issue, we changed our opinion. So you see we actually know MORE than you. Please stop making yourself look foolish. In Darwin's days I believe they were all referred to as monkeys. You blaming us for the misuse of the word is absurd since the misuse started with those who share your opinion. Micro-evolution is just fine, that is small adaptations. Macro-evolution is another matter. There is no proof that all life evolved from single celled organisms. Also, as you admit, your theory has a huge gapping hole in that it has no workable explanation for the beginning of life. That's pretty important!!
Furthermore your explanation does not even follow the bad science that pretends to hold it up. You start off by touting natural selection, but then your faith makes you err. You said "they needed to grab more and so they learned how to walk on two legs". For this to occur, would have required a beneficial mutation, actually more than one, not education. I learned how to swim but I have not grown gills. You let your faith lead you farther than the evidence could possibly take you. This is the same mistake made by all evolutionist. They wish it were so, and then refuse to look at any evidence which may point them in another direction.
Lastly, if you are so intent on excluding the possibility of a creator in your theory of evolution, then you also should be prepared to explain away the rest of creation. Plants, birds, fish, animals, and man are only 3 days of creation. You,ve left out a lot.

Answer 4

I cannot make you believe something that you don't want to believe, but I urge you to use discernment, reason and logic when thinking aobut evolution- all the things evolutionists accuse us of not using , but really- do the principles of evolution make sense? If this has taken place over the course of millions of years, little by little, then we are being decieved when we are told we are looking for "the missing link" we are looking for millions of missing links- besides that- there are so many common sense, scientific questions that evolution just cannot answer- no matter how you twist it.
If you are really interested in education and not just disproving something that does not fit your mold- read this article, it is fun reading but very informative and common sense-
Meet Gaspy: the lungfish:

http://www.reflecthisglory.org/study/did...

here are other bits of interesting fact for you to ponder :

Charles Dawson, a British lawyer and amateur geologist announced in 1912 his discovery of pieces of a human skull and an apelike jaw in a gravel pit near the town of Piltdown, England . . . Dawson's announcement stopped the scorn cold. Experts instantly declared Piltdown Man (estimated to be 300,000 to one million years old), the evolutionary find of the century. Darwin's missing link had been identified. Or so it seemed for the next 40 or so years. Then, in the early fifties . . . scientists began to suspect misattribution. In 1953, that suspicion gave way to a full-blown scandal: Piltdown Man was a hoax . . . tests proved that its skull belonged to a 600-year-old woman, and its jaw to a 500-year-old orangutan from the East Indies." Our Times--the Illustrated History of the 20th Century (Turner Publishing, 1995, page 94).

Science Fiction
The Piltdown Man fraud wasn't an isolated incident. The famed "Nebraska Man" was built from one tooth, which was later found to be the tooth of an extinct pig. "Java Man" was found in the early 20th Century, and was nothing more than a piece of skull, a fragment of a thigh bone and three molar teeth. The rest came from the deeply fertile imaginations of plaster of Paris workers. "Heidelberg Man" came from a jawbone, a large chin section and a few teeth. Most scientists reject the jawbone because it's similar to that of modem man. Still, many evolutionists believe that he's 250,000 years old. No doubt they pinpointed his birthday with good old carbon dating. Now there's reliable proof. Not according to Time magazine (June 11, 1990). They published an article in the science section that was subtitled, "Geologists show that carbon dating can be way off." Don't look to "Neanderthal Man" for any evidence of evolution. Recent genetic DNA research indicates the chromosomes do not match those of humans. They do match those of bipedal primates (apes).

What does Science Say?
Here are some wise words from a few respected men of science: "Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless." (Professor Louis Bounoure, Director of Research, National Center of Scientific Research). "Evolution is unproved and unprovable." (Sir Arthur Keith--he wrote the foreword to the 100th edition of, Origin of the Species). "Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great con-men, and the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever." (Dr. T. N. Tahmisian, Atomic Energy Commission, USA).

"To suppose that the eye . . . could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

A great resource for some education that is logical and common sense is called "The Science or Evolution: expand your mind" You can get this DVD from WayoftheMaster.com


The fact is there is nothing here that was not created, planned with a purpose in mind. Is there anything on this earth- not natural that just came together on its own. You can put pieces of 'stuff' in a box and put whatever conditions you choose and without a purpose and planning for that purpose, you won't get anything useful. I have yet to see anyone show matter being created out of nothing, or one species evolving into another or any proof of that happening. this world works in a clockwork type order , there is precision and purpose to everything you see - you cannot have purpose without a plan and you cannot have a plan without a planner- there is nothing that can disprove intelligent design. Period!

Answer 5

Yours is a very articulate explanation of the logic which under girds the theory of evolution....however....you are speaking to a people (creationists, like me) who do not deal in logic.

Even in our own faith, if logic were a contender in our reasoning, then we would have to ask ourselves why would a Holy God leave his perfect environment, become a human, die by crucifixion, and conquer death so that prideful, sinning human beings could exist with Him one day.

Logic? Nope. No logic there either. Just faith.

Answer 6

I think we know evolution isn't about coming from monkeys, that's just convenient to say. But how can a theory be viable when it violates multiple scientific laws? Thermodynamics demands that systems break down, not up. Statistics demands that mutations would die out before they could accumulate into a viable improvements. And Murphy's Law would get the first member of a new species killed before it could reproduce. ;)

Answer 7

the bible says God created animals within their own kind, by their own species. there can only be certain extent of evolution...like a bird's beak growing longer or whatever. but a dog wont become a shark if the world is slowly engulfed in water.

you cant prove that there is or isnt a god. thats what faith is about.

Answer 8

God created the universe and all that is in it! He separated Humans from the rest of creation by giving human beings a soul!
There is a God who loves you more than you know!

Answer 9

You are correct in the theory; but being a theory of Swiss cheese-like proportions, your ideas don't prove evolution, either.

Answer 10

There are many different theorys and yours is only one. If I ask the question here then there will be many different answers and yours will only be one of many.. Good theory..