We have a place near our city with a variety of animals, not the exotic ones you find in a zoo, just funny, smelly, dirty ones that you can feed.
However, when I go to look at all these birds of all kinds, big, little, medium, & peacocks, I can not help but be in awe over the fact that each one is different, even within the same species, some have speckles, some don't, yet each have their very own unique design. I stand there taking in every little detail on each one, completely mesmermized with God's paintbrush.
Same with fish, especially salt water. I mean my gosh, look at all the different types, how can evolution be so creative, or a big boom (is that another theory I think I may have heard, or am I thinking of end times when there will be a bunch of booms?). There are too many unique shapes, unique sizes & too many colors being used & then put into unique designs.
How can God be denied His handiwork? Oh, you poor unbelievers, to not know the true source before its over!
2006-12-26 15:33:50 · 25 answers · asked by Child of Abba 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Geez, I guess, seeing, discovering, and/or observing the beauty in animals depends upon a person's heart and their attitude about life.
If all you can see is what some of you have described in your answers, is that also how you see life and other humans?
What a pity to have to go through life and not see the beauty first and foremost. Yes, we can all be aware of some gruesome details, but I would rather go through life and focus on the beauty rather than the other stuff.
2006-12-27 06:28:09 · update #1
By the way, I once worked at Nevada Association for the Handicap the best job ever. We had 6 levels with 1 as the most severe & level 6 ready to work at a job site and I would coach them til they could go it alone.
Fridays were the greatest bcuz even level 1 knew it was payday. My job was going to hotels, casinos & businesses to obtain work to be done at our location. The most common were direct mailings (up to 20,000 +)which levels 3 - 6 worked on. Level 1 & 2 would sort decks of cards so they could be resold. Many in level 1, severely handicap, never even got 1 deck sorted but they were happy no matter what they did. There is no phoniness in them just pure honesty. Whenever I felt down in the dumps, I would walk through the levels & the joy that radiated thru them lifted my spirits faster than anything as they shouted their hi's at me. They don't want your pity, they just wanted you to accept them. God's word says they are His special people and He's right, they are special.
2006-12-27 07:00:33 · update #2
Truly God is the master of all artist and God having put a little of Himself in each one of us, has given us the potential for creativity and that's why we too love variety. As an artist myself I know that I am not a mass producer. I never like to churn out art work and I like each thing I have put time and effort in to reflect a little of me. I look at the weeds beside the road and up close you will see the intricate design that simply could not be random chance. God has told us in the book of Job, " Where were you when i laid the foundations of the world?" His word tells us that the wisdom of men is foolishness to God. I think it is a sad day when men have higher education and it has moved them away from God into thinking that their is no God. God's word tells us that one day every knee shall bow before the name of Jesus...even so amen
2006-12-28 12:18:55 · answer #1 · answered by Godb4me 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you really think it matters what we think? One of the main causes of discontent in this area is Man's insistence that he understands the source of all things and knows what is good and what is bad about it. Some think that a benevolent God would not allow human suffering, while others believe it absolutely necessary for Man's soul to be healthy. Some believe that biological diversity or complexity must mean that God has wielded a paintbrush much in the manner of Leonardo, while others believe that the system is self-perpetuating and evolutionary.
The real folly is Man's presumption that he knows the mind of God --that he can not only appreciate the beauty of life but also presume to understand its origins beyond what is scientifically provable. Faith is one thing, but dictating policy on the basis of a polarized and unprovable assumption is quite another. There is nothing wrong with believing in the Creation or Intelligent Design, but there IS something wrong with dictating this faith-based thought system as if it were science. I have no problem with appreciation of the diversity and complexity of life, but I stop short of saying that I know exactly what brought it about beyond what man's evolutionary science tells us. I do have faith, but I don't presume to know what God is thinking--I just accept that there are things I do not know and will not be able to find out in this lifetime.
2006-12-26 16:01:37 · answer #2 · answered by Black Dog 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
So... those people born with mental and physical disabilities... miscarriages... still births... birth defects... etc...
Were these just mistakes of 'God's paintbrush'? Was he looking the other way when he was designing these people?
If I was the 'alpha and the omega' or the 'true source', I certainly wouldn't make so many mistakes.
I mean, think about it. 99% of the species that have existed on this planet are now extinct. Only 1% of the species that have existed on this planet survive to this day.
60% is failing in any major University. 1% is the student who never showed up to class at all.
2006-12-26 15:40:18 · answer #3 · answered by Michael 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Because a Master Designer would most likely have kept the same design for each creature, not make it different. Why change what works?
Therefore, mutations and variations to keep a species adaptable to constantly changing conditions like global warming and the polar ice caps melting (again, why would a Master Designer change what works, for amusement at the sake of millions of lives of both people and animals?) is more likely a form of random evolution.
Only the strong survive.
And coming full circle...if we were made in God's image, as cruel as we are (and as violent as he is, see Old Testament) then I would prefer not to believe in Him.
2006-12-26 15:40:02 · answer #4 · answered by Kailee 3 · 8⤊ 0⤋
You only say that because you believe that YOUR god created the animals, but how can you assume that? What if it was Allah that created them? Or Vishnu, Buddha, the flying spaghetti monster, Zeus, or any of the million other gods that people have worshiped at one point or another. Maybe it was a bunch of gods that got together and did it. Why is it the one you want it to be?
2006-12-26 16:38:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
about fourteen billion years of chaos created us. not a week. Fourteen billion years. no one ever made the declare that we developed from rocks (an absurd truth to make because rocks won't be able to evolve as they couldn't breed) or timber. I stepped out of a supernova, and so did you. in case you extremely position self belief in wise layout (that's being created with the help of god or yet another being), clarify backaches and the ineffective remnants of a tailbone. Evolution holds solutions for both, yet does your god have motives? No? Then do not presume that evolution and the large bang are basically stupid issues to position self belief in. They make extra experience, and answer extra questions than the truly incorrect concept of introduction.
2016-12-01 05:17:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand your feelings. There are some pretty great hiking trails near my home, and I'll go hiking and see the variety of... everything- plants, animals, rock formations, etc and be amazed that there are those who think it all happened by chance.
Did you know...
Us humans share a huge majority (dunno the exact %) of our genetic material with every other life form on Earth??...
Some would interpret that as a sign of evoulution- that all life came from the same primordial soup.
Others (like you and I) would interpret that as a sign that God isn't into re-inventing the wheel- it worked in trees, adapt it to work in fish, giraffes, people, etc....
Either way, we'll all know the truth of the matter in the end- either a) this WAS all chance and we'll die none the wiser or b) this was a grand design by a Master Designer, and we'll die and meet Him.
I like to think this wasn't all by chance.
2006-12-26 15:42:46 · answer #7 · answered by Yoda's Duck 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
was kinda pleasant to read your opinion until i got to the "oh you poor unbelievers". this is one of those attitude problems you religious folks need to overcome. it's very arrogant and condescending and no one NO ONE is gonna be open to your thoughts if you must add your pious pity into the the equation.
i too consider the natural world to be wondrous and beautiful ... however, i do not believe in an invisable super being with a paintbrush dabbing colors on the warts on a gila monster.
2006-12-26 15:44:27 · answer #8 · answered by nebtet 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
You mean the too many creatures for the ark?
Ask anyone with severe knee or back trouble how wonderful the design is.
Why would an Intelligent Designer give his adherents brains they do not use?
2006-12-26 19:43:00 · answer #9 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All these variations came about from Millions of Years of life surviving on this rock. Should we not give credit to the creatures themselves for surviving? Creation is an ongoing process. We don't live long enough to witness the big picture, and our perspective is narrow.
2006-12-26 15:40:37 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋