How does “POOF! Now there are humans” make sense to anyone?

Question

In all of your experience, in all the written experience (history) besides the bible and other religious text (with stories passed down from tribal shaman to explain where we came from) have we recorded any other instances of “POOF! There it is”? People once thought that flies appeared in “POOF! There they are” fashion from meat until it was proven that they come from maggots which come from eggs which come from adult flies (I am not using this as a evolution argument but a “POOF! There it is” argument.

Do you think God is not smart enough to use evolution or are you just so arrogant that you can not stomach the thought that we were once without higher intelligence? In my opinion you insult God with your disbelief of evidence because you are too prideful to admit that other animals are equal to us just because they have less cognitive abilities than we do.

We were given dominion over them (this is obvious) when we developed intelligence but we were never given superiority over them.

Evolution is a theory but it is a much better theory than “POOF! Here we are”. There is evidence of evolution (google it or do a yahoo search) but THERE IS NO PROOF, NONE AT ALL, of “POOF! Here we are” (there can be no proof because one second there were no humans and the next second there we were). I believe in God but I believe God could make us using a scientifically explainable method and judging by how much order is in the universe and my experience and the experience of our species, I find it easier to believe than “POOF! Here we are”. I will ask the question that I want answered again.

Do you think God is not smart enough to use evolution or are you just so arrogant that you can not stomach the thought that we were once without higher intelligence? OR Answer: Why Creationism?

Answer 1

I believe in God, but I do not believe in POOF either, as you call it. With all the metaphors and parables in the Bible and outright contradictions and nonsense and even horror, I see no reason to take the Garden of Eden story as anything more than a fable.

First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26 states the following:
"And he [Hiram] made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one rim to the other it was round all about, and...a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about....And it was an hand breadth thick...." —

Pi = 3? I always thought it was more like 3.14. Obviously, some things in the Bible are not intended to be taken 100% literally. This verse may seem like a meaningless minor point, but I have to ask how one is supposed to know where to draw the line between precise literal statements, the figurative and approximations.

There are no serious scientists that I know of that doubt evolution and I can't possibly imagine that any who did doubt it would offer Biblical creationism as an alternative. Pardon an old worn out analogy, but no one wants to acknowledge or accept that they are trusting in a fable as being truth any more than a child wants to believe that Santa Claus is not real. The inability of some people to understand the slightest notion of logical reasoning is very evident by the remarks of ragincajun who claims that believing in God automatically implies that you must believe in the Bible, which is absolute utter nonsense.

'incomprehensible question' ? It may be a bit disorganized, but I'd hardly call it incomprehensible.

Answer 2

If one is very simple and cannot accept that we are animals, intelligent ones at that, then one wants to believe that "poof" here are the humans. These are the same people that don't understand that the bible is a metaphor. That many (hundreds) of years ago folks in the Catholic church picked an chose the books of the bible. The same ones that don't understand that the bible is not the word of God but of man, changed and modified over many hundreds of years.

And if god created Adam and Eve and that they were the first, and they had Cain and Able. Where did Cain's wife come from?

Answer 3

Gosh you had a clear question and yet some people found it incomprensible? Perhaps they are your Proof of Poof? Who else but a person who has just popped into existance would not get your point. They were so threatened by the logic of your words that they reported you in fear that they not go straight to hell for just having laid eyes on your blasphemous words.

Another clear and thoughful question frightening the masses! (yeah I know there are also responses from intelligent lifeforms but they already get this)

Answer 4

Gosh... it DOESN'T make sense to me.

And to clarify, evolution isn't a theory in the colloquial, laymen sense of the word.

In layman’s terms, if something is said to be “just a theory,” it usually means that it is a mere guess, or is unproved. It might even lack credibility. But in scientific terms, a theory implies that something has been proven and is generally accepted as being true.

Answer 5

I agree. Although I'm an atheist, I still agree with theists who are at least willing to accept the facts that could potentially harm their faith.

A flat refusal to acknowledge something like evolution is simply foolishness. And I greatly admire any theist who is not afraid to study and/or incorporate scientific advances into his faith. Personally, I would prefer that they take the next step and head on into agnosticism/atheism, but regardless, the willingness to study all sides of the subject is extremely worthwhile.

Answer 6

how does "POOF! there's a planet and it just so happens to have everything on it required to develop into something that can make and sustain complex forms of life, millions of different kinds, some of them with critical reasoning capabilities to create complex other creations and inventions..." make sense to you?

can i ask you something else? if you do throw God into all of this, do you take so much pride in human concluded "evidence" that you can place such a limitation on God to say He cannot say "POOF! look there it is."?

and what of the human race? if you do believe in God, do you not believe he set us apart from other animals, to run this show? do you not think we were GIVEN higher intelligence to do this? do you not think the human race is more important than what you're suggesting? or are we all mere animals with our primal instincts? ever killed a spider? according to what you're saying, it's as bad as shooting your next door neighbor in the head.

Answer 7

A Master Artist that uses Life as His Medium can do most anything, wouldn't you think???

Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Answer 8

What if the "poof" took 15 billion years? Would it be any less the work of god?

Answer 9

actually...i have the same philosophy as you! i think God started with bits of life (the first organisms) set up laws to govern the univers (physics) then made the life so that it could evolve. now comes the question of weather or not he planned each form of life in the way it is or if it just so happened that his experiment turned out so that we are here among the other millions of life forms? in any case he showed us that he existed and we were able to comprehend that.

Answer 10

If you believe in God then by your own admission of that, you must believe the bible. In the bible, God tells us that yes, he did just POOF us. If you don't belive the bible to be the truth, then you deny that God is telling us the truth, or calling him a liar???