Do u believe in evolution?

Question

Do you think that mankind evolved from monkey like creatures. A few things, science does say that our dna is almost exactly the same as a monkey's dna. Also, their are many fossils that can go along with the theory except for the missing link. The only true opponent of evolution is religion. Now in the book of Genesis it does tell us that man was a little bit more of a simplier being before he ate from that tree the bible says that we could talk to animals, its said that we walked around naked before and as well childbirth wasn't painful. Once man at from the tree, we became aware of being naked, we felt pain in childbirth, and we couldn't communicate with animals anymore. This sounds like evolving to me in the basic form. I am not talking about Charles Darwin vs. Creation, I am asking about evolution vs creation or can they be the same. What do you think?

Answer 1

There is no evolution v creation debate. Evolution is a fact supported by an overwhelming mass of evidence-creationism is some kind of eccentric theological doctrine. Science ignores it completely as it should do.

Answer 2

True, monkey DNA is only 98% like human DNA, though some studies say it might be closer. Of course, if it was exactly, they wouldn't be monkeys.

Many links have been found for many animals in the fossil record. What links do you think are still missing? And how does the existence of a few missing links in some lines invalidate a theory supported by the evidence of a multitude of links in other lines.

Religion is only a "true" opponent of evolution in the PR sense. They have a larger public relations effort and are pushing against a theory that really contradicts their pet superstition. Religion is not a true opponent of evolution where it really counts, in the facts and evidence.

BTW, being naked doesn't make the body any more simpler. And there are several talking animals throughout the Bible. The writers weren't coming up with a description of evolution in Genesis. That story was stolen from earlier myths with equally improbable guesses for the start of the world.

Answer 3

Yes, I believe in evolution. I am prepared to accept without having the time to investigate it myself that there is clear evidence of it in some species. And yes, I believe in creation as a logical explanation for how things began (I know of no explanation that doesn't run into the 'infinity' problem so someone or something had to always exist and I favour the 'someone' without being able to prove it).

There is no absolute contradiction between a sensible belief in creationism (and literal 7-day interpretations of Genesis are not sensible to my mind) and an evident but not completely worked out theory of evolution. Could not God create using an evolutionary method?

I know there are many believing scientists out there and many who hold no religious beliefs but who do not disparage those that do. This is sensible - even a scientific approach to belief!

Alas there are those pseudo-scientists who hold that science is the only way to know things and if something cannot be proven it does not exist or isn't true. I think a true scientist would hold that in such a case nothing conclusive can be said about the subject.

So, to those pseudo-scientists, I say, why not offer a scintilla of evidence for your definitive statements about what others believe (= hold to be true but cannot prove). And please don't retreat behind the mantra, "It's impossible to prove a negative". If that were true you'd have great difficulty proving I wasn't standing beside you as you read this whereas it's perfectly obvious (and therefore proven) that I cannot be in two places at the same time.

Sorry, just getting tired of all the negative opinion masquerading as scientific fact.

Answer 4

My belief is that creation and evolution are not mutually exclusive. The concept of creation by means of evolution is a sound one. What I mean is that the way creation should be understood by the modern man is that a set of rules was established in the beginning, laws, and then the universe, Earth, life, primates, humans - are all consequences of that set of laws. Whether or not the laws were random or tailored, just to make us appear is another question. I consider evolution to be a scientifically confirmed fact and as such, it is not something to be debated or believed in. Creation has not been proven, but still may be.

Answer 5

We couldn't talk to animals before we evolved into humans. It's not like some Disney movie where all the animals chat with each other.
And no, they can't be the same. Biblical creation suggests that humans and animals were created in more or less their current form a few thousand years ago. Evolution says that we and all modern animals evolved from simple bacteria over a period of billions of years. They are completely contradictory.

Answer 6

Nice explanation, here's one that goes along with the Christian religion perfectly.

All these weirdly formed things they call "pre-humans" such as homo-erectus, etc. are creations of the Devil. But as Satan can not create perfection in any way, shape or form, there was created an organism similar to humans and was placed outside the Garden of Eden (that's an explanation as to why humans and "cave men" have been found to exist at the same time). Man, Human, HomoSapien, Creation of God, In likeness to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, was in the Garden of Eden until Satan convinced "Eve" to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, then bringing her companion, "Adam" with her into disobeying the word of God.
We could talk to animals because God, the Creator could talk to animals as they were His Creation; he put man in charge of "wild life", and the original purpose of wild life is to serve man.

Now here is where I get one million thumbs down... oh well. ;-)

Answer 7

Since life can not evolve from non-life, then how did the very first life form come into existence?

The answer is, it was CREATED by God.

Evolution is unproven voodoo science that was merely a GUESS.

It is a THEORY. Look in any dictionary, a theory is a guess.

Evolution is simply a belief, and since religion is a faith-based belief, then evolution is the religion of science.

Answer 8

I do, but I don't think it is linearity and one-directioned. I also think that there is no conflict between Genesis and Theory of evolution since both recognize the same order in life development.

Answer 9

maybe the people who wrote that story book, as long ago as it was, realised that to exist, we all, all animals must be realted somewhere.
so they added it in to the story.

oh, and the talking to animals, basically saying we were once 'animals'.

of course, evolution is the most rational thought (i would say a fact),
and the people who wrote those books wanted to base them on real life, didn't want it to be too fantastical.

but in any case, i do believe the bible was written to entertain, but then the real and the imagined got a bit mixed up when certain people decided that they wanted control over people.

like Cesar.

Answer 10

Mans fall after disobeying God is not an evolutionary process it is a consequence of sin...it is not recorded in Genesis that man could communicate with the animals...this would imply animals actually would have something to say to us...which is not consistent with creation...God gave man His likeness...not animals.....evolution is not ruled out as part of Gods plan, however there truly is not alot of evidence to support it as more than a theory....

Answer 11

Yup, believe in it. Check out Theistic Evolution.