so a virus develops an immunity to a vaccine. That doesn't prove evolution, or that I came from an ape. God programmed our genetic codes. Just like a computer program can do many different things and adapt to the human using it, God created us and every living thing to also adapt. Don't just assume that become something adapts to change that it means we must have come from some ape that Darwin invented.
2007-04-14 03:25:44 · 22 answers · asked by J D 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Computer language writers are continually adapting to new problems created by the evolution of viral mutations. Programs have become more sophisticated. If you can run a computer then you should know the complexity of the human brain. How could that marvel just happen?
2007-04-14 03:44:32 · answer #1 · answered by j.wisdom 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
DNA is programmed to evolve.
Checkmate.
Maybe God made it that way. Or maybe there is no God and it happened all according to natural laws. One is free to choose for himself which to believe.
I believe that God created us, and I believe that He did it through evolution. If you take a break from beating up that poor straw man for just a minute, you can look around you and see that God doesn't violate laws of physics. When God "saves" someone from drowning, He doesn't magically teleport them to land, does He.
Nope.
It isn't an assumption that things change. It is a proven fact. For a very long time, young earth creationists rejected even microevolution. They can't do that anymore, so they pretend that they never disbelieved it. Same as with a flat earth and the incorrect "assumption" that the earth is the center of the universe.
Microevolution is simply macroevolution on a smaller scale and a shorter period of time.
Computers do NOT adapt. They do only what they are programmed to do, and nothing else. Neither do computers "microevolve," reporduce, absorb nutrients from their environment, excrete waste, fight for survival in an ecology, and adapt to changes in that ecology.
Your analogy is very, very weak.
If you did come from an ape, would it make you any less human? Any less saved (Assuming that you are)? Any less loved by God?
No.
If God chose to have us evolve from apes or dirt makes no difference to me. Personally, I would rather come from an ape. I've yet to have any creationist explain how being created from dirt and spit is better.
2007-04-14 03:46:09 · answer #2 · answered by elchistoso69 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Still with the ignorance about evolution. Darwin never claimed that man came from apes. He said that both man and apes evolved from a common ancestor. Considering the fact that man shares 96% of his genes with apes, that shouldn't be so hard to believe.
The fact that you believe that we are all computer programs that are constantly updated by God rather than organisms which adapt and change to survive, is so ludicrous that it really doesn't deserve a serious response.
2007-04-14 03:32:40 · answer #3 · answered by Julia Sugarbaker 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
so what programmed god? Oh, god was always there. Uh huh. Where was god before he created everything?
What is this adaptation? No being "adapts", this is a generational thing. The environment changes, and members of a species better fit to survive in the new surroundings will outbreed those of lesser fitness. Over billions of years this change stacking up on change leads to speciation.
2007-04-14 03:37:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Computers evolve. My computer today is different than the one 5 years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago. 20 years ago it was so primitive. Like the difference between man and ape. My ignorance had me thinking that primitive computer was the most amazing thing, the highest form of electronic wizardry an amazingly powerful tool. Looking back, I see what an ignorant dumbass I was thinking those naive thoughts of my simple extremely limited and clunky computer.
There's computer evolution right at you.
2007-04-14 03:34:46 · answer #5 · answered by d c 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Why must everything be this way, or that way? Creatures do adapt to thier environment. The Word says to believe all things because everything is possible with God. And the things we nit pick about are all truth. But only parts of the Truth!
2007-04-14 03:31:25 · answer #6 · answered by THE NEXT LEVEL 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Ever notice how languages like French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese are very similar to one another?
That is because they evolved from a common ancestor - Latin.
Viruses are only one line of evidence out of many that prove evolution. Just because you refuse to understand a concept does not make it less real.
Your real message is loud and clear: To believe what you believe, one must turn off their brain. (What does that say about your faith?)
2007-04-14 03:36:47 · answer #7 · answered by skeptic 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The only programming living things have comes from a narrow set of parameters called survival instincts, everything is is shift on the fly.
2007-04-14 03:33:03 · answer #8 · answered by Black Dragon 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How can we live in a computer age and yet still have so many people around who believe the Creation Myth? Because we have scientists and other people who don't, thank Darwin.
2007-04-14 03:37:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I like technology.
I built a solar path light from parts I had.
Did you know that technically it's a living thing?
It takes power from the sun, converts and stores that energy, then uses that energy for it's 'purpose'.
Pretty good, huh? I created a living thing.
If you can find the fallacy in that argument, good luck.
2007-04-14 03:47:37 · answer #10 · answered by Orac 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋