2006-12-24 02:35:38 · 18 answers · asked by bottle of rum 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no sarcasm please
2006-12-24 02:35:50 · update #1
who made the different races?
who made the seas to reach a certain distance?
2006-12-24 02:37:14 · update #2
who gave us understanding?
please break it down to a ten year old such as i please?
2006-12-24 02:38:42 · update #3
who made the different races?
***No one made the different races. It's all based on where a set of people were, and if they were there long enough to adapt to certain conditions, what the population was like before the race evolved, etc. Basically, over a long time and different factors, races popped up.
who made the seas to reach a certain distance?
***Plate Tectonics. You know, once a very long time ago there was no land, only sea? and there was a time earth was covered in ice? The Earth has looked different many times. It keeps changing. And will continue, until the earth's core cools permanently.
who gave us understanding?
lol! our souls, our minds. We don't need a universal god to have a soul! The world is very complicated, kid. I am only 22, you know. But you are off to a good start. Question things, you get farther that way, even if it's scary, and believe me there are some bizzare things science has found out. Well, if you want you can PM me, I'll give you a few links and some stuff on what happens after earth is gone.
2006-12-24 03:04:34 · answer #1 · answered by Kali 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All animals evolved from lower life forms. Here's a great site that explains it (with pictures!)
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/
> who made the different races?
Again, nobody "made" them; people adapted differently to different conditions in different parts of the world.
> who made the seas to reach a certain distance?
Nobody made the seas... land is formed and changed through geological processes.
who gave us understanding?
> intelligence is a survival trait, especially for humans; survival traits endure.
Look, it seems you're a smart kid, but you've been fed lies your whole life, which is a shame. The stories about gods and such may be very exciting, but they're just not true, and nobody can prove them no matter how hard they try.
If you have any questions, you can either IM or email me (only if your parents allow it!!!) or read books or sites written by scientists - biologists, physicists, geologists - these are people that devote their entire lives to understanding the world, instead of just claiming there's this invisible guy and he makes it all happen.
2006-12-24 11:07:11 · answer #2 · answered by eldad9 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your question presupposes a creator. I profess to be a bible-believing Jesus-admiring christian, so I have no problem believing in a Creator.
Your question also presupposes that there is no God, and asks for possible alternative creators.
I think your question is a logical fallacy. I think that the definition of God includes "creator". I believe in the existence of a soul, and have personally witnessed "supernatural" phenomena that are fundamentally inconsistent with the scientific method, and any description by modern physics. The existence of a soul, and the fundamental inability of science to predict or describe those phenomena, inclines me to degrade its value as being authoritative about the origin of man. If it is on equal par with religion (as it is to me) then it must be evaluated in parallel with other religious systems for quality of predictive and descriptive capacity of supernatural and soul-related phenomena.
Science doesnt lose out to modern christian religion, because modern christianity in significant ways has left its own teachings. Science does lose out to the text of the bible, and the ideas in there in terms of being able to describe, and be an authoritative source over supernatural phenomenology.
As such an authority over that entire regime of reality, I can give value to its definition of God, which includes both the body (meat) and the soul. That God is described as the exclusive creator of human beings.
In my personal economy, and personal beliefs you can not divorce the two. You cant separate God from Creator of man.
To my understanding your question is therefore a logical fallacy, a contradiction of terms.
Furthermore, I dont believe in "different races". There is one and only one human race. African Americans are the same kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species as Native Americans. I think anyone who believes they are different branches of humanity that are meaningfully separable into different "races" is a racist bigot. Its still impossible to determine skin color using DNA. Even in "organic evolution" the best qualifier is "clade groups", and that is an in-species term not an out-species or multi-species term.
Finally, I think its an assumption that we have understanding. In the grand scheme of things, I think human beings are impressive approximators, but have nearly no actual fundamental understanding. Einstein agrees. All the science and math currently in the world can not yet prove conservation of momentum. Yes there is a lot of data, but no there is still zero proof. If you dont believe me, take on the Navier-Stokes problem stated by the Clay Institute of Mathematics.
2006-12-26 15:49:18 · answer #3 · answered by Curly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take into account these facts:
The Milky Way is more than 20 billion years old.
Our solar system is 4,5 billion years old.
It is possible the existence of super civilization in the outer space, so, we can be clones from other races, made by more advanced civilizations.
2006-12-24 10:41:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The ultimate mystery is that something always was. If there's no god then there's something that always was (process, whatever) and that contained everything to make sentient beings (the process of evolution, quantum physics, time, space, etc.). And this would then be 'god'. When the mind dwells on this, it can really be perplexing.
2006-12-24 10:39:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No one. All you did was move the question to who made god? Didn't answer a thing.
2006-12-24 10:38:51 · answer #6 · answered by Alex 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Were we made?
EDIT:Were those things made? Not the end result of processes originating from the singularity?
EDIT EDIT: Understanding was not given. It was developed from Evolutionary processes...
Brain development in our ancestral species led to the kind of cognitive abailities we have today.
2006-12-24 10:36:45 · answer #7 · answered by eigelhorn 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
there is a God. Only one, and he made us.
2006-12-26 16:12:35 · answer #8 · answered by Mel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the'spark' leaps from the fire can anyone say it has been created? Life is simply a state of "ISNESS".
ALL IS ONE AND ONE IS ALL.
2006-12-24 10:55:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure there is.
and He loves YOU!
and He wants very much to spend eternity with you.
We celebrate His human birthday tomorrow.
What a good day to call on Him to open your eyes to His Truth.
Merry Christmas!
2006-12-24 10:38:38 · answer #10 · answered by Chef Bob 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋