I just don't understand what is so hard to get? Nature is filled with failed attempts at existence. Why do species go extinct, while some live on to pass on their genes?
What is so hard about natural selection. You do know that we have genes and DNA right? So why can't you believe that some of the weaker or less usefull traits die off, while the stronger traits get passed on? Instead you create a complex explanation based in fantasy and faith?
I just don't get why all the resistence to the world being round?
2006-12-08 06:54:58 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, most religious people are reasonable in regards to evolution. Heck, even Pope John Paul II accepted it (so long as god alone infused an immortal soul.) In the animal kingdom this is virtually indisputable, but alas, there are still lots of people who are very uncomfortable with the idea that humans evolved from more primitive primates. Mainstream science throughout the world has accepted the basic premise of descent with modification and natural selection. Experts still quibble about aspects, but the theory is sound. People who continue to cling to biblical origins are just afraid of accepting their own animal nature. Odd, too, because so many religious people admire the beauty and spirituality of the animal kingdom. Why should they be ashamed to have come from it?
It's really only the fanatical fundamentalists who interpret the bible literally that reject proven facts like the age of the earth, the heliocentric solar system, etc. You just have to feel sorry for these folks. Heck, there is still a flat earth society (if you can believe that!)
2006-12-08 07:13:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
First thing, what has the world being round to do with DNA?
Very vague rant.
Yes natural selection abounds around the earth. No doubt.
What you are implying is a weaker trait in DNA will die off?
Please explain how that happens.
That statement does not make any sense if not plausible.
Traits can get passed on, strong or weak.
Species go extinct due to environment and or outside forces that the species has no protection against and cannot adapt accordingly.
Take Cancer. We have no protection against it, however we still are trying.
Is cancer and disease a part of Natural Selection?
The complex explanation you seem to have trouble with is not complex at all, nor created.
2006-12-08 07:07:00 · answer #2 · answered by dyke_in_heat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians do not object to natural selection. The slowest gazelles get eaten by lions, of course.
We just object to junk science that excludes the existence of a Creator by presumposition.
The question is not why do some species become extinct. It is where do all of the species come from in the first place.
2006-12-08 07:12:01 · answer #3 · answered by 5solas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I subscribe to creation theory, and I think gene structure and all of the things you mentioned I see support Creationism. All the things you list support a highly defined sense of systems created by God.
So, what are you getting at?
Darwinism supports randomness and that species can give birth to multiple other species. A wonderful theory, but you just do not see this in the world today or in our written history. You will never see a pregnant ape give birth to a man. Sorry, but it is just not possible. Common sense and the things around you disprove Darwinism and other theories, like the Big Bang Theory. Big Bang relies on randomness and chance. But in contradiction to Big Bang, you see set systems and repitition that repeat themselves. You rarely see anything born from pure chance.
As to the world being round, you won't find any resistance from me.
2006-12-08 07:06:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe God made the world have natural selection because He chose to for His own reasons. I believe in the laws of nature and that God himself created them.
Why does it bother you so much that I am happy with that? If you are truly peaceful and clear with your views why would different ones bother you. I will not steal your belief and neither would the Lord. It is your choice just as it is mine to believe what we want.
The world is round as the bible says so in Psalms it was people who decided it was flat like a piece of paper.
2006-12-08 07:02:31 · answer #5 · answered by bess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Christian but I believe in evolution and natural selection. Some people take the Bible literally while some of us believe it is an open book, as in what did one day mean to God.
2006-12-08 06:59:15 · answer #6 · answered by 2007 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One reason due to animal extinction is dramatic changes in the weather pattern. Also pollution caused by humans as caused some animals to go extinct.
2006-12-08 06:57:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some species became extinct because man was careless with their overkilling, that's one very obvious reason you seemed to have overlooked
2006-12-08 06:58:48 · answer #8 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We know that Noah took two Unicorns with him on the Ark, but it has always been a mystery as to why they did not survive. Last month the mystery was solved when Noah's lost journal was discovered and it is mentioned that the Unicorns, "were delicious".
2006-12-08 07:15:17 · answer #9 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe in both evolution and creation, so it's quite easily explained to me. Natural Selection.
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To others. I dunno. To me? Besides the natural selection. Humans. How many species are extinct because of us now? I can't remember.
2006-12-08 06:57:34 · answer #10 · answered by spirenteh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋