2007-03-01 21:33:33 · 9 answers · asked by Lover of God 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I do want science to always improve, and to help us to know and understand things, but I am not foolish enough to believe I came from bacteria.
2007-03-01 21:39:19 · update #1
That's right; if we don't go very far in the past ( 10000 years or so ) man has always been a man. Science is something relatively new in the evolution of the mankind...The progress that we see these days is a phenomenon based on human sources: very intelligent individuals and good coordination between industry and science...
All that of course won't work without millions of workers and a solid structure, that enables society to educate young and perspective people...
2007-03-01 21:47:27 · answer #1 · answered by javornik1270 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Science evolves, as does man. But man does it to adapt, whereas science does it to improve. What, do you want the same science we had 200 years ago? We've learned a lot since then. Or would you rather just sit back and never discover anything new? What a pointless life.
EDIT: So why don't you accept science? All we have learned about biology points to a common ancestor. Why do you think that's wrong? More to the point, why would you have a problem with that? You do accept that even 5 or 6 generations ago, your ancestors probably couldn't read, right? Do you even know who they were? We're talking a minimum of 280,000 generations back even to our last common ancestor. If you don't even know who your great^5 grandfather was, how can you say that your great^280,000 grandfather wasn't something not quite human and not quite chimp?
2007-03-02 05:37:53 · answer #2 · answered by eri 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
No---your assumption that "man has always been man"--overlooks the proof that fossils have revealed--& continue to reveal on a daily basis that man---& all life on this planet have slowly evolved over countless millions of years--however you were right about scientific theories evolving--as science slowly pushes back the boundaries of ignorance --the more we realize how much we don't know!
2007-03-02 06:04:46 · answer #3 · answered by huffyb 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe we we're something else along time ago mainly because no matter how you look at it all organisms are the same in the way that they just want to survive and pass on genes, so why find it hard to believe we came from something else when all things are connected? And whats the big deals anyways, we are not better then anything else.
2007-03-02 06:26:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does it make you feel any better to know that there were a few hundred thousand intermediary steps between you and the bacteria?
Foolishness is in assuming that you are necessarily right.
2007-03-02 06:10:46 · answer #5 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, and science and those theories state you came from simpler forms and simpler forms and simpler forms until you reach a single celled organism that existed several billions of years ago.
Science freely admits that at this point abiogenesis (=start of life) is uncertain, but
a) this does not mean evolution is wrong, a complex framework of 150-odd years of post-darwin research states it is completely right
b) CHRISTIAN GOD did it. In fact, that would have a likelihood that can only be expressed in negative numbers.
2007-03-02 05:44:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, I both agree and disagree with you.
I agree with you in that science in continueing to evolve.
I disagree with you in the fact that man has always been man.
2007-03-02 06:40:44 · answer #7 · answered by Skippy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Totally agree. Man was man from the beginning.
2007-03-02 05:37:28 · answer #8 · answered by Jayson Kane 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋
yes, I've never been a monkey.
2007-03-02 05:37:22 · answer #9 · answered by wirelessmouse 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋