Genesis says God formed man out of dirt, right?
Well I know Christians who say such brilliant things as "no monkey is my uncle, how about you?"
If I hold up a dirt clod and say "is this your grand pappy?" are you going to smile and nod yes?
2007-06-29 09:40:17 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's not the material that dignifies us.
It's the Craftsman.
2007-06-29 09:44:35 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 3⤊ 5⤋
Gee, I don't know where to start.
Just because Genesis says it doesn't make it truth. It's the creation story. It's a story because at that time they didn't know what really happened so that's the best explanation they had.
It has been my experience (and yes, I am ashamed to admit it, but I live in Kansas) that what is offensive to fundamentalists is twofold. First, they are offended at the suggestion that man evolved from a lowly animal. Secondly, they think it is insulting to God because they believe God created man. But, isn't it not that man evolved from ape but that man and ape both share a common ancestor? And isn't it strange that the theory of evolution encompasses so much more than the man/ape controversy, yet that's the only thing fundamentalists seem to target?
I say God started the "dust storm" from when everything evolved.
2007-06-29 17:22:55 · answer #2 · answered by Sunshine 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Actually the theory of evolution pretty much says we came from dirt/dust also. There was no life... than single cell life from gas... than more complex life formed. Eventually we became monkeys and then humans. The only difference is that Genesis acknowledges that God "breathed life" into man and formed him personally in God's "own image".
With that said, we didn't "come from" dirt... we were "formed from" dust.
I like where you took the question... you're a thinking man - and pretty funny. For the record, I don't get offended when people say they have monkeys for uncles! Or when people say I have dirt for a grandpa!
Be blessed!
2007-06-29 16:55:22 · answer #3 · answered by Cool Dad 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think what you have written is very powerful - although of course, it is not mutually incompatible to state that we descended from apes (rather than monkeys) and that we are made out of the dirt of the earth, as all living creatures derive their material from this planet.
We come from both - one (the earth) supplies the raw material, the other supplies the genetic information needed to manipulate those materials into becoming another human being.
To me, the notion that it is degrading to think that we descend from apes is just hilarious - especially given that these people resemble so strongly the "hear no evil, see no evil" monkeys, as these people who refute the evidence that we are actually primates who live in highly complex groups strongly.
I wonder if there is any other animal as comical as we; surely no other animal has the intelligence to mislead itself so badly as to it origins and nature,
Sir, we are highly intelligent apes, but apes who have developed a means of evaluating and interacting with each other that is worth pursuing and improving.
2007-06-29 22:04:27 · answer #4 · answered by manneke 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bravo! One of the most entertaining questions yet. The most entertaining reply I can think of is:
Q: What did the atheist say to the Christian?
A: Your grand pappy is partly made out of my grand pappy's poop.
Thanks for a real belly laugh.
2007-06-29 22:57:58 · answer #5 · answered by nightserf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL after my sister's graduation I was thinking the exact same thing. I was thinking every time we walk on dirt we are walking on someone's dad, uncle, cousin, brother, grand pappy, nephew, and other male related family members. And of course the female side of the family hadn't come to life because they would have needed the ribs of man to create woman. I could picture lonely and desperate women going out into a dirt field and create their ideal spouse out of dirt. The lonely desperate man would have ribs surgically removed to create a woman though it was never told what and how did Adam's rib created Steve I mean Eve.
2007-06-29 16:49:47 · answer #6 · answered by felpa_de_osa 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
LOL...score.
But to, you know, answer - you got me!
Why aren't all the Kansans screaming "I ain't come from no dirt clod!"?
But, of course, they've got this one covered too - their Sunday School teachers taught them to answer "It's not the material - it's the craftsman."
So I guess it's OK that one's grandpappy was a dirt clod, as long as a magical gaseous Vertebrate came along and blew on it.
2007-06-29 16:45:21 · answer #7 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Christian and I believe in evolution. I have heard other Christians, too, get offended at the thought of coming from primates. I had to laugh at the part about the dirt. That is true. lol
2007-06-29 16:45:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
each person has the right to believe in whatever they want to believe in. I chose to believe in evolution. If a believer wants to feel that they came from dirt then so be it.
2007-06-29 16:44:43 · answer #9 · answered by independant_009 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Did it ever occur to you that whether creation is true or evolution, we all come from "dirt"?
Only the evolutionists seem to believe that the innate quality of creative intelligence was resident in the dirt.
2007-06-29 18:06:11 · answer #10 · answered by William F 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You do err my friend..man was created from the dust and dust is nothing more than minerals and gas..and woman was created from a rib from the man...he tried to do better when he made her..that's why women are smarter. : )
I don't find it offensive to be told I came from monkeys..I just consider the source.
2007-06-29 16:58:08 · answer #11 · answered by dreamdress2 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋