creationists if you dont believe in evolution and we are all descended from two people why do?

Question

different races exist? surely the fact we all come from the same origions and yet aboriginees, europeans, africans and native americans differ in appearance from each other we have all evolved over 1000s or years to adapt to environment.

Answer 1

I wish I had more time to put into this answer, but here's the short version:

The vast majority of educated Creationists do not dismiss the concept of microevolution, or adaptation. As Albert Einstein said, "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." Microevolution (adaptation) includes the pepper moth in the industrial era (white moths became rare because the trees became dark, and darker moths became more predominant). These are scientific theories that are quite easy to see in practice in the world - 'Survival of the Fittest". The same concept applies to humans, because yes - we have adapted to our environment.

What most Creationists don't believe in is macroevolution as the origination of life as it is today. This is the evolution of species to species, i.e. monkeys to humans. Adaptation (in your example) and evolution as the origin of all organisms are two completely different things. They work off of the same main concept, but one has been observed in 'real time' while the other is an educated guess based off of circumstancial evidence - which some of us don't believe because we know, look at, and believe other truths.

Answer 2

I am not a creationis however I could not resist this.

Sorry for those who think Cain. He died don’t you know. So did all of his ofspring. So did Able. Cain killed him. It was another son, that had a son that….. had this guy named Noah that had three sons. They are the three family lines that make up the human family.

I'm sorry but as to the Evolution "theory," I am not aware of any proof. Check out the book Darwin’s Black Box by Professor Behe (from Lehigh University in PA).

The Evolution theory fails to meet the scientific method.

The scientific method: researchers propose specific hypotheses as explanations of natural phenomena, and design experimental studies that test these predictions for accuracy. Then repeat these steps to make increasingly dependable predictions of future results. Theories that encompass wider domains of inquiry serve to bind more specific hypotheses together in a coherent structure. This in turn aids in the formation of new hypotheses, as well as in placing groups of specific hypotheses into a broader context of understanding.

Oops. Evolution failed. Check out the fossil record from another favorite wiki…

“Since fossilization of an organism is an uncommon occurrence, usually requiring hard parts (like teeth, bone, or pollen), the fossil record provides only sparse and intermittent information about ancestral lineages. Ooops again…no proof. No links between all the fossil records.

Don’t get your dinosaurs feathers in a tizzy. The Creationist view point can’t hold any scientific water either. It requires as much if not even more credulity than the evolution theory.

One wonderful thing that the Evolution Theory has produced is the greatest scientific fraud of all time. The now infamous missing link being found to be a fraud, has created a situation where there is yet to be found a missing link. Look up Piltdown Man and see what I mean.

Which leaves me with the biggest problem of all. Where are all of the various stages of evolutionary growth in the world today? How come there are no species between man and ape wondering the Earth today? How come we don't have any Australopithecus’s running around? The various races are still the various races. There is nothing between as there should be if we are in a constant state of evolution.

As to what Australopithecus looked like, how do they know what he looked like from just a jaw bone? But who am I to question. Wait, I am a scientist and I can question it.

How do we know if that jaw bone was a mutation or not?

And how come mutations are always degenerative and not progressive to a species?

And why is the grass green?

Wait. I know the answer to that too. If it were blue, we would not know when to stop mowing our lawns. We would just keep mowing them off into the horizon.

Answer 3

Although we are considered descended from two people, why is it that nobody asks the fundamental question of who Cain married, who Abel married? Where did those people come from? I think the Bible makes clear that other races existed even then. I'm not sure belief in macroevolution either explains or discounts what you are saying though as other explanations (as wild as they may purportedly be) could explain this.

To answer the "stubborness" of believing in the Bible, it is important to note that the Bible is not just "a book", it is a series of books, written by guys that were eye-witnesses to what Jesus actually did. The Bible is historical in the same way that the father of history, Heradotus' "Histories" are. In addition to the Bible containing eye witness accounts from different people, the Bible also contains much older books that are very consistent with the newer ones. What's more amazing to me, is that we have very few examples of texts that old, and the few that we have are revered and held up as great works that we must read, and yet the Bible, somehow gets pounded as being "fiction" more than the Odyssey or the Iliad. Amazing really.

Answer 4

There is actually a rapidly growing branch of creationism that believes evolution does occur but that it occured after adam and eve were placed upon the Earth. Similarly, all the different species of the world are the evolutionary descendants of the animals Noah took onto his Ark.

An interesting attempt to merge creationism and evolution together. Lord knows I'm getting sick of reading all the evolution vs creationism arguments on here

Answer 5

The local yobs by me have 97 percent DNA of a Chimpanzee, rather than the other way around.

So I agree that we did at some point start from a Parent Ape, and time and circumstance did the rest.
Recidivism proves the issue.

God of course, had humour enough to add the pinch of salt to the stew.

Answer 6

I'd like to know why creationists believe so stubbornly exactly whats in the bible. Its a book, just like charlie and the chocolate factory is, or moby dick, or the guinness book of world records. Whos to say some bloke didnt just sit there and invent it all and thought.....hmm....lets write a best seller!!?! No offence to anyone by the way!! its just a thought, people are free to believe what ever they want.

Answer 7

Doesn't it make you wonder how much more technologically advanced this planet would be today if there weren't so many religious fanatics in it?

The biggest obstacle to science (and technological advancement) is religion.

It's funny how religious people assume that if you don't believe in creationism, then you're an "atheist". You can believe in evolution and still be open to the idea of intelligent design.

Answer 8

if you believe that cain (son of adam) was cursed that his descendants would have a mark of black skin, and that his seed was preserved on the ark through egyptus who was married to ham... then you could say that different skin colors just came from interbreeding with the darker children.

i know that's offensive to some... but yeah.

and nobody knows how long the garden of eden had animals in it before adam left it. maybe dinosaurs became extinct while adam was there. and please don't use an argument like "god wouldn't let them go extinct in the garden of eden, because there's no evidence of that concept in the bible.

Answer 9

I am not a creationists but I see where you are coming from. I often wonder the same thing.

Answer 10

Tower of Babel?