Ok answer me this religious people/evolution people. Why is that the early people (the ones that hunted animals and made fire with sticks) had bigger skulls, were bigger in height, and I think they had a bigger brain, so the question is why is it that all of us humans are different form the early ones physically? It's a fact that they were different thus theory of evolution seems realistic, don't you think?
2006-10-23 14:50:30 · 9 answers · asked by Loving Life, Always, and Forever 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-10-23 14:52:31 · answer #1 · answered by mary texas 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Concerning the debate going on about intelligent design and evolution: is it possible that the final answer about which of these two seemingly opposite ideas is correct could simply be yes?
With one position firmly held by the believers and the other just as fearlessly defended by the non-believers, if you happen to be in a position somewhere near the middle, it does not look all that complex. From this position, you wonder why either-or has to be the answer.
If you believe that some higher being created the universe by intelligent design, what more elegant and intelligent design could there have been than a self-regulating system that continually checks its own errors and makes its own corrections in mid-stream as an integral part of the process.
This all seems quite logical to me although it probably won’t satisfy the believers because they are afraid to see any truth other than the one they have been told to believe in. Inversely it certainly won’t satisfy the non-believers because it leaves them stuck with a god that they are so obviously terrified of.
To sum up this view from the center, it might be most easily be explained by saying perhaps the designer was intelligent. Problem is, the designer was likely so intelligent that those seeking to prove that it is intelligently designed may be incapable of ever understand it well enough to see it for the elegant self regulating design that it has always been.
The nonbelievers will be similarly handicapped due to the internal terror the have about the idea that there may be a God. Neither side being able to leave their entrenched position for fear they may have to admit they were wrong. While the rest of us stand by trying to figure out what all the fuss is about. Personally I don’t think anyone is wrong, I just feel both sides are about half right.
Love and blessings
don
2006-10-23 22:03:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you're absolutely correct. We see evidence of evolution in many things, and the progression of man itself is one of those things. While I'm not sure your description of early man was entirely accurate (I think they were actually shorter in a way -- more hunched, but would have been taller if they'd stood straight; basically they were more like lower forms of primate at the time), you're right that man has changed so much. There was neanderthal man, and cro magnon (I think that's how yo uspell those). We've seen evidence of this in the fossil records of many animals, and some scientists today are even studying the evolution of creatures from year to year (notably the finches on the Galapagos).
It's just another one of those things about science that theists can't explain without debunking their beliefs, and so they choose to ignore it or pretend it isn't real.
2006-10-23 21:57:53 · answer #3 · answered by maypoledancer 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Where are you getting this information? Everything I have seen indicates that our ancestor species were generally somewhat smaller than us, not larger.
Evolution is real. There is no evidence that contradicts ti, and the amount of evidence supporting it is overwhelming, especially now that we can do sophisticated analyses looking at genetic drift within a species and differences between species. One of the most convincing analyses was to look at the Y chromosome, which is only inherited by males from their fathers, and mitochondrial DNA, which we only inherit from our mothers. These two sets of DNA are therefore independent, yet when we do genetic drift analyses on the data we get very consistent results.
2006-10-23 22:02:20 · answer #4 · answered by Jim L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, these kinds of humans that you describe do not exist anymore, but apes do. So if we evolved from apes, why are they here and not the "in between" humans you describe?
"A day is to a thousand years, and a thousand years to a day." The world was not really created in 7 days.
This proves that both theories are partially true.
2006-10-23 22:09:34 · answer #5 · answered by AveGirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One theory is that their heads were so big, that their women died in childbirth and/or stillbirths from birth trauma. There were many species of humans. Neanderthal were not successful, but Cromagnon man was there to carry the baton.
2006-10-23 21:59:57 · answer #6 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a simple answer to this conflict. The Truth.
God created an evolutionary universe. God CREATED evolution.
2006-10-23 21:58:18 · answer #7 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ooga Booga. Me no believe me had ancestor with skull big'em. Me think me come from friend of snake and friend of apple eater. Me like'm that way.
2006-10-23 21:54:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were different and there were many different hominds, who were not "apes" as we know today, but not homo-sapiens either. Its so obvious to me now, but I am amazed when i look back and remember how foreign it all seemed before.
2006-10-23 21:54:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋