But too dumb to have thought of something as elegant as the evolutionary process?
2007-06-08 13:32:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-06-08 13:54:27 · answer #1 · answered by Gifted 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God certainly could have used evolution to accomplish His work, and I really considered that for a long time. BUt, when confronted with several truths.. not least of which is the absence of all the supposed "missing links" to different genera,... I had to stop and see that each living thing was made separately and distinct, and only reproduces its own kind. Any departure from the "norm" is usually to the detriment of the whole. This being so, it seems that evolution was only an expansion of Darwin's recognition of a few small adjustments in a few species he saw. Those slight adjustments did not change the basic species. If whales supposedly evolved from wild dogs caught in the interstice of the India subcontinent, why don't they have distinctly canine DNA?
2007-06-08 13:40:57 · answer #2 · answered by JOYCE M 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How about an intelligent compromise. #1 God can do anything and we cannot put human limitations on Him and #2 there are evolutionary processes at work... but its how you define and understand what evolution really is. A plant may evolve over time to be a little better, maybe a different color, but it still remains a plant. Fish did not become apes who in turn became people. That's harder to accept than religious faith.
2007-06-08 13:39:10 · answer #3 · answered by Augustine 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You question is stupid. A random mindless evolutionary process is anything but elegant.
However, as to God creating the earth in 7 days. Though he didn't do that (day/24hour), the Bible states that nothing is impossible for God -- so yes he can and could but didn't.
The Bible itself permits each creative day to be as long as you / scientists claim it is! Even 700 approx. mill years is not in conflict with the Bible's testimony --- it is only in conflict with those that have preconceived church dogma that the church controls.
It has nothing to do with the Bible!
Please see this page, and skip the first two paragraphs if you prefer not reading much about God.
http://bythebible.page.tl/Creation.htm
2007-06-08 15:03:39 · answer #4 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it fairly is to no longer safeguard the present-day political view referred to as Creationism which asserts that the Bible says that the universe and residing issues have been created in 24-hour days some thousand years in the past, yet you may understand that, in fairness to the Bible checklist, the Bible of course enables an indefinite volume of time for the introduction of the universe in its beginning off words in Genesis a million:a million & 2. In verse 2, it says that 'darkness' became over the earth, no longer the universe or heavens. right here 4 "days" do no longer use the Hebrew be conscious for "create", yet "make", and apparently cope with the clearing of a cloud conceal, 'making' first mild, then solar, moon and stars seen interior the sky. And Gen. 2:4 of course shows that the "days" weren't 24-hours, calling all seven "days" ONE "day". superb regards, Mike
2016-11-08 00:30:15 · answer #5 · answered by pontonio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I think God was smart enough to create the world in 6 days.
2007-06-08 14:34:31 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, logically speaking if anybody had a god, don't you think they would want their god to be able to create existence in just seven days. Suppose you believed in, I don't know, the god of the Bible. If you did then your faith in that belief would make you think that because this god is so great and powerful then if he wanted to create anything that vast he could create it in just seven days. As for the seven days, the number seven is a symbol of completeness
2007-06-08 13:41:51 · answer #7 · answered by thomas_knight7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, God "could" have directed the evolutionary process and some Christians have compromised their faith in Biblical truth in order to support that notion. But the fact is that God created plants and animals with the capacity to evolve within their species, not with the capacity for a fish to end up as a human being or even a humming bird or a giraffe.
Check out The Evolution Cruncher @ http://www.godrules.net/evolutioncruncher/CruncherTOC.htm
2007-06-08 13:38:26 · answer #8 · answered by Martin S 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
anthropomorphic--God with human qualities Your thinking in accord to human intelligence. God has more than intelligence--God can thinks things into existence. God is not hampered by science Laws and properties. He designed the thought process for those things. Lift yourself to understand that human knowledge is where we stop--It's part of a continuum for God
2007-06-08 13:42:28 · answer #9 · answered by j.wisdom 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Only took him 6. Nothing elegant about evolution. Man came from amoeba?
2007-06-08 13:38:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
What is elegant about sharing an ancestor with an ape? Macro-evolution does not occur.
2007-06-08 13:40:40 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋