evolution??

Question

if we evolved from apes or monkeys we would still be evolving right?why would you want to believe that people came from animals?yes i dont know much about science but what i do know is that God created me, i did not evolve from a monkey!!!pls no smart remarks i want real facts and information why you believe in evolution.

i believe in God because i have experienced him in my life and i have seen the wonders he has done in other peoples lives.when you truly believe in him and are devoted to him he constantly reminds you that he is very real.

..........so why arent we still evolving???? and even if evolution was real it had to have started some where.the big bang or whatever had to have been set of by someone or something right?there is a creator behind everything, things dont just happen or apper out of no where!!

Answer 1

THE EVOLUTION

“I know that the word of “Evolution” has become an obsolete and worthless word in some circles of the people___ and they do frown even on it’s simple reference.

You will however surprise to know that I, not only, respect these friends and their feelings, rather, I agree to their viewpoint, to some extent, in the light of the current knowledge. Because they apprehend “Evolution” in terms of material or mechanical evolution whereas material or mechanical evolution is far different from that of the creative evolution.

An important source of Evolution is the Nature’s process of selection. Which is originally one of the laws of nature and a secondary cause, like the other laws of nature, as it’s Creator is again God.

All the species generated by this process are again the indirect creation of God as the Nature’s process of selection, itself, is not capable to create any specie. It simply admits some species to be nourished, leaving aside the others, to be withered and this process works under some hereditary variations. So___ the survival or removal of a specific specie, is never accidental as it is presumed by the believers of material or mechanical evolution”.

This very statement of Edward Luther Castle positively removes that superstition. Which has captured, not only, the materialists but the religious leaders as well. Who are still in it’s captivity even after the lapse of so many years. Dr. George Erl Devis, the physicist, writes:

“As much as the knowledge is flourishing and the superstitions are being unveiled___ importance & inevitability of the critical study of religion & ethics___ is increasing day by day in the same scale.”

The physicist is hinting upon the urge of the “quest for truth and the specific process” which may bring forth, a suitable solution for the problems of life. Of course, we can not lead the life in a particular way unless we come to know the origin of life. What is the actual and factual truth? Only after positive cognition of the same, we can learn to lead the real life. And__ the same learning may, in turn, lead us to the aim of life.

George Erl Devis writes further:

“The surprising scientific discoveries have produced certain indispensable questions. Though not so new, but their nature has become more changed, on account of___ the receipt of detailed information about cosmic system. And___ in any case____ man can not be held as excluded thereform. Among these questions, is the most important question___ upon whose answer is depending___ our aim of life and the system of our moral values. And___ that is the same old question that:


Is there any Supreme and Sublime Source who is the Creator of whole cosmos and who could be surnamed as God?

And___ thereby arises the other question, that if God has created us then who has created God? This question is usually raised by the children, in a highly logical air.

We can not deny the fact, that science has no convincing reply of the question that God is existing or not? Rather, science can never bring forth a scientific proof thereof.

We are breathing in such a physical universe which is running smoothly in terms of the pre-ordained laws of it’s complexed system. But, it does not mean that we can ever derive some information, through this very universe, about a thing, which is existing outside to this universe. Our universe is just like a room without any doors and windows. And even if it is having the same, then, such glasses are fixed therein that to see & understand the outside thereform is totally impossible. Whereas to see inside from the outside__ is almost possible.”

As we can not prove the existence or non-existence of God on the basis of science. So it is the all-alone way for us, that whatsoever stock of information we have, about this universe. We should derive a reasonable result therefrom. Such a reasonable result___ which could never be objected on logical grounds. And such a result, duly derived from the stock of scientific information, is this:


“No material thing is capable to create it by itself”

and___ that is such a reasonable result, which is free from all sorts of logical objections. And___ through this very result we come to know about the Creator Who is Creator of all the material and immaterial things, and who is the Omnipotent.

If we presume that the universe is created accidentally or automatically. Then we will have to presume too, that the universe, itself has the power of creation. Such a presumption is, however, not maintainable on account of the scientific informations, collected so far, about the universe. So___ accidental or automatic creation of universe___ is the result___ which is totally irrational.

And where, God is being believed as the Alone Creator of universe, scientific informations are now becoming a foundation there. And science___ which is the fountain-head of the pure observational, analytical and experimental knowledge___ has reached at such a stage. That the next step whereof is not else___ but to believe in God and God’s Almighty Omnipotence. And___ that is on account of this very consensus of the universal scientific informations that:

“No material thing is capable to create it by itself”.

It is a Verse-like ray of Holy light and a great information. Proper apprehension whereof leads us, directly, to the realm of Faith.

“Universe was created accidentally or automatically” is a notion, which is not confirmed by the scientific information. So, to think like that is an irrational & illogical gesture. Which leads nowhere but to the ignorance.


Which God we should believe?

It is an important question and it is more important for the person who is desirous to know his God.

Can we consider this accidentally or automatically created universe as God? Does it create and remove everything by itself? But the scientific consensus that:


“No material thing is capable to create it by itself”

clarifies that universe was not created accidentally or automatically. Nor it is capable to create anything by itself. Nor it is given any knowledge of creation. And___ if the universe does not own any knowledge of creation___ then the knowledge of creation is definitely related to Mr. Albert Einstein’s that very Infinite & Supreme Power or Cause. Whose creative manifestations are being seen everywhere in this inapprehensible universe.

The act of knowledge, which is the process of creation in this universe___ is a magnificent sign ___ which is leading us, directly, to the Creator.

Power of knowledge and act of knowledge in terms of the process of creation___ bespeak of such a Creator who is Unique___ Who is free from the creaturely traits__ Who is far above the Nature and our state of knowledge___ Who is Supreme, Supernatural and Omnipotent. About whom we can speak in the following rational terms.

“The Creator of things is not a thing or like the created things. And as the intellect itself is a thing, so it is not considerable more than a thing of superior kind. Therefore its capability of making some image or imagination of the Creator will result to such a step, which may diminish the supreme sublimity of the Creator”.

In this way a man of intellect may believe in God on logical basis. Whereafter he will always consider his God as the Sole Creator and the Sole Guardian of universe. He will never consider his God as a part of universe or a thing in universe or the universe.

It means that God is Super-natural and Super-physical. Who is not perceivable through our senses at all.

The commonplace concept that God is a kind of matter as well as God is the Creator of matter or___ God is the universe as well as God is Super-natural & Super-physical___ is a self-contradictory and an irrational concept.

We must refrain from such concepts and resort to reality that existence of creatures is separate from the Creator and the creatures are not like the Creator at all. Because creatures live and die and they are under God’s control. It is recorded in the Scripture in the words of the Creator:


“I__ and I alone___ am God
No other god is real”
(Duet 32:39)

Worship no god but Me!
Do not make for yourselves images of anything
In heaven or on earth or in the water under the earth
Do not bow down to any idol or worship it
For I am the Lord your God and
I tolerate no rivals.
(Duet 5:7 to 9)

Hence, we must believe our God as the Supernatural and Super-physical. God is not perceivable by our senses. Nor___ God is point-able like point-able things. Nor___ the names of God’s created things should be used for God. Nor ___ we should consider God in terms of things and worship God as a thing. Of course___ we should believe God, the same way, as God has commanded us to believe. And___ God’s Commandments 9Duet 32:39 and Duet 5:7 to 9) are very much reasonable and quiet corresponding to our intellect.

Answer 2

Evolution has decades of solid evidence behind it. If we map the genetics of the creatures living today, we can trace a fairly complete genological tree, even for species we may not have fossils of. We have transitional fossils for multiple species, including humans. To answer your question, yes, we are still evolving. No species can avoid evolving in an environment that changes, and we keep changing our environment all the time. However, evolution takes dozens of generations to make even the slightest noticable change (excluding certain occasional BIG LEAPS, but those happen very rarely). So to any one generation, the generations prior won't be so different from that generation, nor will the next ten generations. For humans, that's a huge span of time, but it's a drop in the bucket of geological time. If you could live to watch a thousand generations, you'd see obvious, pointed changes to a species, you'd even possibly see the split that predicates speciation. Given ten thousand generations, and you are certain to see some big changes, and if there were a split, you'll see two groups now so divergent that they no longer can reliably breed together. Given a hundred thousand generations, and you'll see a clear split and no more cross-breeding possible.

It's not a question of what I want, it's a question of what the evidence says.

Decades of research has shown that evolution is a factual occurance -- bacteria alone evolve new species on the drop of a hat or at the slightest change in their environment. Our model of how it happens is missing a few details -- but that's okay! We know gravity happens, but we have no idea yet exactly how it works. We know relativity is fundamentally flawed because it cannot be integrated with quantum physics. But relativity is the best model we have of how gravity works right now, so we use it until we figure out a better model. Do we disbelieve gravity because we know our model is flawed?

"I don't know, give us time" is a perfectly acceptable answer to a question. "God did it" tells you nothing, it makes no predictions that can be tested.

Answer 3

We didn't evolve from apes or monkeys, we share a common ancestor, so it means they are our distant cousins. We are still evolving believe it or not, but evolution is not abrupt steps where one generation will give birth to a totally new species. We only live about 80 years compared to the thousands of years it takes to evolve into a distinct species.

It is not about wanting to believe that we come from animals. It is the fact that we ARE animals. Think about it. We eat, we sleep, we piss, and we s.h.i.t. like all other animals do.

Evolution only pertains to how life got to where it is, not how the first life came to be; that is another theory. The big bang theory and the theory of evolution compliment themselves. Granted, nobody knows where the big bang came from, but that doesn't mean a god had to do it. If you believe everything has a creator, why doesn't god have a creator? And if you can believe god doesn't have a creator, it is possible to imagine a big bang without a creator.

Answer 4

First off, we did not evolve from monkeys. We share a common ancestor to monkeys. Also we are still evolving. Humans have been getting taller in the last several centuries. That is a change in a gene pool, which is the definition of evolution. Everything is constantly evolving, but since it takes thousands of years for just small changes, you don't notice that it is always happening. All the science points to evolution, none of it points to creationism.

Answer 5

Here's a fact. Not all evolutionists have a degree in science. I do not know how to begin to explain this to you, because I'm not a scientist. I'm a person who trusts in the honesty and in the capacity of the 95 - 100 % of the scientific community who have altogether accepted Evolution to be truth.

And by the way, it's not that I "would want to believe that people came from animals". It's not I "want to", or not want to. I just want to know the truth, and if that IS the truth, I'm okay with it. After all, coming from monkeys doesn't mean being one. We HAVE evolved from them, meaning we're "superior". Come to terms with it.

EDIT: Oh, we ARE evolving all right. Only it's at a lower pace than we can appreciate. The changes are not overnight. We wouldn't notice it from comparing an old man to a baby.

Answer 6

Since you probably won't read a long, thoughtful, detailed answer, I'll be brief...

1) We did not evolve "from monkeys." Humans and apes evolved from a common primate ancestor. The fossil record is fairly clear on this.

2) Evolution through natural selection is a process whereby life adapts to environmental pressures in order to enhance advancement of DNA into future generations. There are thousands of examples of this. As human beings are now able to change the environment to suit their needs, for all practical purposes, we have stopped evolving.

3) You do not "know" that god created you. To know something, you must have proof, and there is no proof for god. You "believe" god created you probably because you were raised to believe in religion, most people you know agree with you, and it is the most reasonable and comfortable explanation in light of your limited scientific knowledge.

You are trapped in your paradigm. It would take a "paradigm shift" for you to see things differently. Until that unlikely event happens, you will not only not understand evolution, you will reject peoples efforts to explain it to you. This is clear from ignorant statements like "why would you want to believe that people came from animals?", but as the saying goes "ignorance is bliss", so enjoy your bliss.

Answer 7

We did not evolve from monkeys... we share a common ancestor. It's a fine difference, but a difference nonetheless. Bread and pasta are two totally different foods, but they both share flour as an ingredient. Did bread turn into pasta or the other way around? No... but they do share some things in common.

Our relation to monkeys or apes or any other creature is similar to the tie between bread and pasta.

Further, evolution took millions or billions of years to go from one species to another. Fish didn't just jump out of the water overnight and become walking mammals. It was as gradual as your pinky shrinking with each generation.

Read this transcript, from PBS.org, about the species on the Galapagos Islands and how they've evolved. Scientists are quite excited about the proof of evolution on that one island.

Answer 8

evolution is not real if it was ur parents would be monkeys but there not at least I hope not. Many people say that there was a big bang but who made the big bang and who created the monkeys. I hope that people would stop believing in it but I know that they probably wont. But the one thing I ask is that u don't believe in it because it is not true. Genesis 1:1 says, In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth. THE BIBLE IS TELLING U IN THIS SENTENCE THAT GOD CREATED THE WORLD. people who believe in evolution need help.

Answer 9

Every single day some religious fruitloop comes on here ranting and raving about how there should be no monkeys if we evolved from them. OK, for all the morons who haven't read this in the past; WE DID NOT EVOLVE FROM MONKEYS, WE EVOLVED FROM A SIMILAR ANCESTOR SPECIES. MONKEYS STAYED IN THE TREES, HUMANS MOVED OUT INTO THE PLAINS. THEY EVOLVED INTO TREE DWELLERS WE EVLOVED INTO UPRIGHT STANDING PEOPLE. And i believe in evolution, because there is too much evidence not to believe, unless you are willfully stupid and ignorant. GET A GOD DAMNED TEXTBOOK, AND AN EDUCATION!

Answer 10

Every single day, some newbie teenage jesus head comes on here fresh from teen bible study group and asks the exact same "question". Almost word for word, like you all mindlessly chant the same anti-ToE propaganda your church hands out.

Every single day, the atheists and evolutionists write detailed, thoughtfull explanations which are not understood, and are promptly ignored by the writer who chooses some other jesusheads anti_ToE rant as best answer

Every single day, the jesusheads all give themselves virtual high fives over who can make the most snearing vacuous defense of their absolute "knowledge" in things that are without question, unknown, unproven and utterly unbelievable.

Why should I bother, if you aren't going to educate yourself. You say "I don't know much about science"....that is your first problem. In fact, that says it all

All you think you "know" is what your parents or pastor told you, or the few verses you have actually read in the bible.

The bible is many things, factual isn't one of them. The bible is just a badly written, logically inconsistent and internally contradictory piece of drivel. If that is the only book you will ever read, then there is no point in asking a question, whose evidence based answers you aren't prepared to accept, as you prefer blind faith over scientific evidence.

Science isn't just some collection of facts to be spoonfed to you, it is a way of thinking and investigating how the world, the universe works. We don't just make it up as we go along,like the church.

Todays scientific ideas are built on the work of scientists over 100's of years. Evolution is one of the most widely supported scientific theories ever developed, up there with electromagnetism, atomic theory, gravity....it is almost a law of nature.

EDIT:
KENNY is absolutely wrong about Darwin recanting, that is just a Xian urban legend....if enough people say it, you think that makes it true? Oh wait, of course you do....
The only xian website i refer people to is "Arguments we think Creationists should NOT use" put on by those good (self-deluded) people at Answers in Genesis. I'll even give you the link, Kenny
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/dont_use.asp
scroll down or search for Darwin

Answer 11

Just because you don't believe it, does not make it true. We did not evolve from monkeys, but we did evolve from an apelike ancestor. Look up human in the dictionary and/or encyclopedia. It says that we are primates. What does that mean to you? Believe me, there's lots more to learn in the world than the Bible. Get an education.