Can creationists explain this?

Question

I saw in the paper today about a program that is gonna be on TV (in the States) next month. Its about animals in the womb, they have some AMAZING pictures. I cant wait until its aired in the UK. But the article went into how it will discuss why all mammal embryo's look very similar to human embryo's in the beginning (us being a mammal and all). And why dolphin embryos actually have leg buds that eventually disappear (it is thought that dolphins evolved from a land walking creature).
Does this tie in with the Creation story (I mean us all starting off very similar and dolphins having legs etc) or does this offend you as the idea of evolution does so many of you?

Just curious as to how those who dont believe in evolution would react to this program.

Heres a link to the article, its worth looking at just for the pictures, theyre incredible!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006540470,00.html

Big White Barry.... human fetus's have tails too, but I'm not gonna get into that one!

OMG, I am not bashing the Creation story or what ever you believe why do some people get so defensive? I was simply trying to understand whether this would been seen as linked to evolution and therefore wrong in the eyes of Creationists. I gues thats a yes going from a certain someones rather defensive answer then!

Answer 1

OMG, thanks for that link... those pictures are just amazing!

I already accept evolution, though :)

Answer 2

I am a strong christian and (I believe) a logical thinker too.

Religion is about faith, it is not about certain knowledge. The articles of faith that formed the bible were written by men who did not have the benefit of science.

I believe that Jesus as the son of God may have had an idea about the mechanism of nature and the kinds of problems we would be facing today. My faith is held in the assumption that his purpose was not to educate us on science because we were perfectly capable of doing that ourselves. It was to educate us on morality, spirituality and the afterlife.

Without His religion, regardless of what we believe life today would be very different. That vaccuum would have been filled with something other than the ten commandments on which we based our laws, without the same belief in the afterlife that many of us have now etc.

Science is about certain knowledge. I accept that science can be wrong but it is essentially about factual things, the very things that God forbade if you subscribe to the belief that there was an apple which contained all the knowledge that the bible claims it did.

So if science proves that the world was very likely to have developed a certain way, I would be more inclined to interpret the bible in a way that included those belief rather than disbelieving (and therefore disregarding the profits of) either.

Answer 3

I put both Creation and Evolution together in my beliefs. I think that Deity created all energies and life in the Universe and set the laws of physics, biology, sciences and natural laws into form and beginning. I think that evolution was a part of those Natural Laws that were instituted into biology, chemistry, physics... etc... All life started by creation from Deity and evolution then was given orders to do its thing... and Homo Sapeins was created and then evolution was set into motion on this planet for it to discover the Creator-Deity-God the source of all creation, energy, matter that we have knowledge of today... and when Homo Sapiens became a self-knowing and reasoning being... the Soul was established into existance in each individual . I believe that there are things that we have not discovered yet... that await for us to find and know. So... that is what I believe... our knowledge keeps EVOLVING... hope this helps.

Answer 4

Your line of reasoning actually proves the existence of a Creator and creation. If all mammal's begin the same, why don't they end the same? Clearly they have been programmed by a higher power to grow and mature a certain way that they do everytime. Otherwise, you would get so many mishaps and those legs would eventually grow to be legs, but they don't. It still becomes a dolphin everytime, or whatever mammal the parents are.

It was a valiant effort on your part to try and disprove creation., but try thinking about it a little more next time.

Answer 5

lol ! hey lady .. they are only playing with ur mind .. and just try to feel u that what they are doing are strange and proof for evolution !

by the way iam a vet
all mammals , give birth hv uterus .. and in enbryology
cells divided and divided to give "morula" then the embryo .. and according to each species genes, the embryo is shaped differently ..

elephants although u watch it swimming in his featal fluids ,but it never ever to extract oxygen except through umblical cord ( can not extract oxygen from water) :))!!

actually evolution donot depend upon any scientific theory ,
and science ,medicine , fossils proove that " no place for evolution"

if u play gem and different sports and get muscles .. so ur baby will be born with a great muscles !!
sure no ... {cause there is somatic cells and genatic cell}

actually evolution just depend upon imagination ,and draws , but no science or any scientific theory ..

there are many many logic prooves ..

even darwin himself, his theory was depending upon "" the frog created from mud !! and the housefly created from the pieces of meat ) "" lol ! the sience at that time was so poor .. and even scientists at that time didn't give any attention to his book , cause it does not depend upon any scientefic theory !!

ok watch this site , then think ,http://www.harunyahya.com

Answer 6

Did you know that at one point at the beginning of life, all embryos are female? I learned that in biology class. Does that mean that we are evolving into men when the sexual changes start? I don't think so. When someone is born missing an arm, does that mean we will all be that way some day? I don't think so. The wonders of life. But whether or not a dolphin used to have legs, it's still a dolphin and not another species. Isn't that what evolution is all about? Becoming another species? Evolution has not been proved.

Answer 7

In your question, you never once said anything against God, Creation, or anything of the like; but even before I started reading the answers, I knew some of them would be breathing fire at you for trying to refute God.

For some reason, some people here are just very quick to jump to conclusions, and very quick to answer the wrong question when giving an answer. If you want to see more examples of this, see my question on the definition of a theory. ; )

And as for your question, I think that could be evidence of where we came from. I mean, I don't think it's too far fetched to think that God could have made all life begin in the water, or made us evolve from single-celled organisms and gradually develop from there over billions of years.

Answer 8

I'm Catholic, and personally, I ended the debate on Creation vs Evolution for myself when I was twelve. God created everything thru evolution because...hey, He's God, and He doesn't have a time limit. Genesis says that He created the world and everything in it in 7 days...but what's a day to God? 24 hours or a million years, who knows. Works for me. I don't understand people who profess to be Christians, or others, who get so violent over evolution, like if evolution is true, then God doesn't exist. Since He does, it's a waste of time and really un-Christian. Just my opinion though...

Answer 9

The way I see it, dolphins could have had legs before the Flood. God created everything, but variety came in a while after the Fall. Plus, if you'll read the Creation account, it clearly says that snakes had legs before Eve sinned. God took them off. Some even say that you can see nubs where the legs used to be.
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Answer 10

and that human embrios have what looks like gills behind their ears in the very early development stages...
yes i know all about this ..
but even though i believe that God had a hand in creation , i believe in science and evolution ...
not every creationist has a creation story you know
who is to say that God didnt intend animals to evolve .... i am up for that


lol snap bigwhite

Answer 11

lets say humans did come from apes, were did the apes come from, were did the apes ancestors come from, were did the ancestors of the ancestors come. u can not go eternally backward, its ridiculous.
earth has not always been habitable, not even life forms that can survive extreme heat in lava beds could survive on earth at one time. so were did the life come from? a meteor from another planet? okay, then how did life get on that planet? the planet before that? the one before that? but wait; the universe has not always been habitable either, it was created in the big bang. before the big bang there was just floating hydrogen's and particles. how could life come from this, even if it it did...would u be lying to say it was created?
awsome pix btw.