Were cavemen a part of evolution or a part of God's creation?

Question

I believe in God, and not evolution, and I also think that Adam and Eve were the first people on earth, and that they were not cavemen, so where do cavemen fall into the creation? Cavemen are part of evolution, are they not?

Answer 1

Why yes everything is part of Gods plan

Answer 2

Since you have already placed your question in the context of your belief in God, that defines the answer. They either were descended from Adam and Eve or they were some type of animal not connected with Homo Sapiens.

That said, and addressing facts rather than mythology, it would be helpful if you defined what you mean by "cavemen" which in reality is not meaningful in terms of identifying past entities. They may be early hominoids leading to Homo Sapiens, or early hominoids on an evolutionary branch not connect with Homo Sapiens, or they could be early Homo Sapiens. In any case they are a part of the evolutionary process.

Answer 3

Evolution proves there is a God. It also proves that there are multitudes of men who still think they know everything there is to know about God! Remember the same things were said about the earth being flat. Do not presume to know Gods ways. You can use science to TRY and understand God but our minds are incapable of comprehending all there is to know about him and HOW he does things . Think of it as the evolution -vs- the Magician Theory. You must be OPEN to GOD...not closed with the will and beliefs and of other men! Once you open your mind to his infinite powers then you have no problem seeing that evolution is a much more God like event..AND...more importantly knowing the scientific method you can formulate other or new facts......Keep with science it gives you a logical way to assess FACTS; following false profits isn't a good way to live the kind of life God wants you to live.

Answer 4

When God placed people here they could already talk and lived in cities. That was way after cavemen. Cavemen are only a part of evolution.

Answer 5

God set the wheels in motion for evolution so a caveman is (1) part of God's creation and (2) part of evolution.

This is like asking if your father was part of God's plan.

Answer 6

They may be part of God's plan for evolution. How can you separate God and science when God created the world> Science is the study of creation. God does not deceive us about how sodium and chlorine combine to form salt, why would he do this for evolution? If something is, then it is.

It is the worship of evolution that that is dangerous, not the science.

Answer 7

As others have rightly pointed out the Bible is not a good source of data. I believe that it can be useful if not taken too literally, and that most of it´s stories are, at best, allegorical.

For example, you ask about cavemen. I assume that you mean Homo Neanderthalis, a cousin of ours much maligned and almost completely misunderstood. Thanks to some well-meaning, but utterly ignorant, would-be anthropologists in the 19th century, the usual reconstructions of neaderthal showed a more ape-like than human-like being, most pictorial representations showed them as completyely hairy, for example.

We now know much more, including genetic data, which alows us to say that Neanderthalis was a caring, artistic, creative creature, probably more so than Homo Sapiens Sapiens, certainly there is no evidence to support the idea that Neanderthal ever embarked on wholesale slaughter of his own kind. Neanderrthal also had a higher average brain-mass than we do.

I believe that the biblical story of Cain and Abel is probably allegorical for our ( Sapiens ) having summarily wiped out Neanderthal about 40,000 b.c., and we probably hold that collective guilt in our collective memory.

Evolution ??? I suspect that it is more likely that the other anthropoids were derived from us !

Answer 8

I would like to know how you can claim to love God and not use the incredible brain he gave you. Every legitimate scientist in the world agrees that humans have been around much longer than the 5000 years ago mentioned in the Bible.

It is time for you and everybody like you to grow up and understand that the Bible is not a history textbook. If it was, then, for one example among many, it would be able to account for how we find dinosaur bones from millions of years ago when God created the universe 5000 years ago.

The Bible is simply a bunch of life lessons that people may choose or choose not to believe. Embrace reality and stop treating it like its infallible.

Answer 9

We evolved from apes, lived out on the plains of Africa and moved to colonise the rest of the world. Then the ice age came, that's when our ancestors lived in caves to shelter from the weather.
If we were created by God how do you explain the fact certain people look more like monkeys than others?
And why did our caveman ancestors (Neanderthals) have heavy brow ridges like apes?

Much of the bible is wrong, full of exaggerations, allegories and stories from a time when we lacked the understanding we had today.

Answer 10

I hate to be the one to break this to you but evolution has already been near enough proven. There is undeniable proof that evolution HAS occured in all living things on this planet. The only thing that is not 100% conclusive is how evolution works.

Answer 11

God created evolution.