Evolution or God?

Question

Who thinks we are born from evolution? God? Give arguments of why.

Answer 1

Evolution! First things first. Either God came into existence by accident, or we did. Anyone who says that we have to have been created by someone is flat out wrong. No two ways about it. If God can come into existence without the need for him to be created, then there is no reason to think that we can't. So anyone who tries to tell you it's impossible or even highly improbably is catagorically wrong, because in the same breath there going to try and tell you that god came into existence with being created.

Secondly: Evolution is simply survival of the fittest. If two creatures exist, and one of them is better fit to survive in a given environment, that creature is more likely to survive, and pass on it's trates.

Lastly because I only have so much space. Think about the average height of a human being. Think about how many families you have which have at least one son. How often does the Son get to be taller then the father? Not very often. Very rarely does a father have a son that is not at least the same height as he is. From one generation to the next the average height of a human being is growing by about 1/4' per generation. Lets try extrapolating that backwards. Figure we go threw about 4 generations per 100 years. So about an inch per century. Go back 40 centuries to when we first started finding human remains, and that puts us in at about 3' tall. About the size of a large chimp. Our DNA is 98% identical to that of a chimp.

This is just a couple of the endless arguments for evalution that is generally accepted in one form or another, by pretty much anyone with an IQ over 110. I suggest you try googling arguments for athiesm if you want more detail then what I've given.

Answer 2

If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere anecdote. As with the face on Mars and alien abductions, better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. Have you noticed that with the advent of millions of digital cameras, the number of UFO sightings and religious miracles has markedly decreased?

Most fossil intermediates in vertebrate evolution have indeed been found. A clear line of fossils now traces the transition between whales and hoofed mammals, between reptiles and mammals, between dinosaurs and birds, between apes and humans. The fossil evidence of evolution between major forms is compelling.

I always wonder who Cain's wife was and how did he have kids when there was only Eve around? What about the Neanderthals and 15 other hominid species that are now extinct, what are we, the new and improved model? If the first signs of ceremonial burials first appeared among our ancestors 100,000 years ago or so, can we assume that the concept of an afterlife first appeared at that time? Are the fossils a part of a conspiracy to debunk creationism? That doesn't seem very likely.

I don't know, it just doesn't add up, i'd rather take the objective approach and go with what's logical and rational.

Answer 3

I am a Deist, so I think god exists, but he is inactive for the time being. I don’t mean to attack another person who posted; I am just giving some reasons that his logic may be flawed. Please forgive me if I anger you.

Most of our abilities and attributes can be traced back to genetics as the precursor. However, there have been no reports of discovering a gene that encodes ‘life’ or ‘free will’. The former is just shows that we cannot create a life, only use our biological means to procreate, not create. In essence, we continue the cycle, but cannot originate the cycle. We cannot create in any form or fashion. On the latter, if our lives were determined by genetics only, then ‘free will’ would not have occurred. There is no evolutionary prerogative for an organism that does not follow preordained instincts to survive. If such a organism were evolved, the organism would do illogical things that would increase the probability that it would become extinct, not increase.

Evolution is not survival of the fittest. Evolution is the change in an organism over time. The Survival of the fittest theory does not take into account migration or the evolution of the weaker organisms to prevent predation or extinction.

The correlations between parental phenotypes and offspring phenotypes are not always direct. In the example that Batman used, (height correlation), the gene expression for height may have been inhibited by any number of factors (environment, diet, etc…) If you take a look at the average heights in China, they have grown dramatically larger over the years. Some people believe this is because the Chinese have access to better food choices, at least in the last 60 years, for their diet and thus, and were able to feed the processes for growth, and thus become taller, sometimes even taller than their parents by large amounts.

While most biological processes can be determined by science, they cannot give evidence about the emotions we have. Emotions do not seem to be present in any other organisms; even pets are just doing whatever they have to do to stay alive.

On my last note, I agree with Batman on one issue, you should check out atheism and other arguments about the existence of god. I think God exists because without God, there is no advantage to evolving higher cognitive abilities like free will or emotions.

Answer 4

I am a evolutionist/creationist.

Who says God didn't have his hand in evolution. Besides how could random evolution ever be without the order of a Creator who is beyond our understanding.

Imagine this......take a 747 Jet plane. Chop it in to bits the size so small that you can only see the particles with a microscope. Then put in a NASA wind tunnel. Let the particles be blown around for lets say a million years or ten milion years or ten zillion years...what are the chances that the Jet plane will come out looking like a jet plane or anything else useful? Slim to non.

There is NO evolution without the hand of GOD.

And a personally I don't think a monkey or gorella became a human. God created the heavens and the earth, and the animals and best of all humans, with a spirit and a soul

Answer 5

I think the arguments in favor of evolution are pretty overwhelming for anyone with an IQ greater than their shoe size....

Seriously: the "arguments" being put forth by the creationists above are the same tired, grossly misinformed and stupendously ignorant arguments that have already been explained and debunked a MILLION TIMES before. (Hint: evolution is NOT random; it is the process whereby organisms are subjected to various environmental pressures, which are themselves the result of various laws of nature.)

Sadly, creationists choose to feel threatened by science, and choose to view it as a competing belief system, when it's not. Science is a METHOD, a process for obtaining and verifying information about the world around us by using empiricism, logic, rational thought, experimentation, peer review, observation, etc. We can have confidence in the findings of science because we can understand how those findings came about, and can use rational thought and experimentation to confirm or invalidate them. Religion, on the other hand, is a black box with the phrase "Goddidit" on the outside. While religion may have something to say about morality, ethics or ancient history, it has NOTHING useful to say about the actual workings of the world around us and, with all due respect, should STFU about such matters.

Answer 6

Evolution.

If as they say, that God created Man and Woman, then, We evolved from both, Man and Woman. Therefor, we exist by one creation that's been evolving from generation to generation and it will continue to do so, until the last Man and Woman ceast to exist.

Answer 7

God

As the Bible says, Hebrews 3:4 For every house is built by some man: but he that created all things, is God. (DRC)

See more arguments for why we can trust the Genesis account of creation here:
http://bythebible.page.tl/Creation.htm

Answer 8

God was created out of a human birth

Answer 9

Definately God...My reasoning?

If you blieve in evolution then where praytell are all the in between beings??

You know, if one species came from another, then where are all the creatures that link them? Did they die off and now we are just left with creatures that we can not draw a direct link from one to the other? It just truly does not make sense.

Answer 10

Why can't BOTH exist? I say there has to be a god, else we wouldn't be here, the universe wouldn't be here. Who "pushed the button" on the big bang?

But that doesn't mean that god can't create evolution.

I don't know why people get their panties in such wads trying to prove one or the other--why not both?