Why is it so ridiculous to believe in Intelligent design but?

Question

perfectly normal to believe that a monkey gave birth to you? Has anyone ever witnessed one species give birth to another? When will we find the missing link?

Bianca, Thank you. You're the only person that took the question seriously and answered professionally. I can understand the difference in dogs (sizes, shapes, ect.) but why such the chasm between man and ape? Why does an ape not build, accumulate knowledge through one generation, have technology ect? Thank you again for your intelligent answers.

Answer 1

One species evolves from another. I strongly suspect that is why it is called evolution. Just a guess, mind you.

Answer 2

1. No monkey ever gave birth to a human. Monkeys, apes and humans all came from a common ancestor. Humans are much nearer apes than monkeys.
2. Who ever witnessed an Intelligent Designer?
3.Who designed the Intelligent Designer?
4. Has anyone ever witnessed an Intelligent Designer give birth to another species?
5. What does missing link mean? In a natural progression from one form to another there are many steps and why do we suppose that all of these steps would leave a record? Your great great grandfather is a missing link unless you have some record of him. Just because no record exists does not mean that he did not exist.

Answer 3

I don't believe it is rediculous to believe in intelligent design. The problem occurs when intelligent design goes to far, just like modern science goes to far.
Since we did not witness the creation of the creation, biblical texts become difficult. For example, in Genesis"In the beginning God created heaven and earth," (Jerusalem Bible), The traditional answer to how long it took God to create the universe (in the Western Catholic tradition) was 7 days. In the Eastern Catholic Tradtion it took "eons." And yes our thinking about this area did come from the Catholic Church. The reformation only started in the 16th century - 1600 years after Christ).
When a literalist insists it was done in 7 days, they don't quite understand the problem of translation. Is it a day of 24 hours? Sun down to sun down? A longer period of time?
Intelligent design has alot going for it, but it depends on how literal and "factual" the data is seen.
If you read your bible as a total literal interpretation then "if your eye drives you to sin, tear it out!" Do you really want to do that sort of thing? So we must be careful in interpreting the scriptures.
On this point is another point as well. The English bible is not the original bible. KJV is a translation. English was never a biblical language and to understand how Latin, Greek, and Aramaic work, takes many years of study. Jeromes Vulgate latin translation is much older than KJV, and therefore closer in time to the early Church.These languages interworked with each other in the Empire. So when you read an English bible it takes a little deeper understanding of the original language then most people realize.
Intelligent design has alot of good points, but it depends on the goals and agenda of those pushing it.

Answer 4

Monkeys didn't 'give birth to us' we both evolved from the same ancestor. We have never witnessed a new species forming because it takes so long. But if you find it so hard to understand, why don't you have a look at the different dog breeds. They haven't separated far enough to become different species, but can't you see how much of a difference evolution (through artificial selection) can make? If chihuaua's and great dane's are in the same species, why can't humans and chimpanzee's have looked the same millions and millions of years ago?

And there is proof of human evolution (and also for every other species), with the fossils of all the species that we evolved from (neanderthals and such), is some intelligent being designed us, why did they design them to just die out?

P.S. To the people referring to mules and octisquids, a mule is not a new species, it's an infertile hybrid. New species are not made by crossing two existing species, they are formed when a population of one species are separated and evolve adaptions to a niche until they are so different from the other's of their old species they can no longer interbreed. (The definition of a species being animals that can breed and produce fertile offspring).

Answer 5

If you believe in God, you believe that He created us and not from some ape which idea scientists have been trying to sell to us for ages. I haven't seen a monkey giving birth to a human being nor of a human being that of a monkey. And I don't know if I ever will just to give the scientists credence to what they advocate.

Answer 6

No one has seen a monkey give birth to a politician (well that would be reverse-evolution), but there IS evidence in the fossil record of how certain diffrent species evolved from more primitive, now-extinct species. There are two diffrent species of squirrel on oppisite sides of the grand canyon, that were once one species. There are whale fossils that have legs. There are snakes with residual leg protrusions-- all signs and proof of SOME form of evolution. So those of you who think that evolution is a sham-- How do you explain Homo Erectus, or Homo Neanderthalensis (Neandertals, to the lesser-educated)??? Were they just a now extinct of ugly people? Were they just human-like animals without souls (for the christians that think that only HUMANS have souls)? Or did we EVOLVE from a common hominid ancestor into what we are now??

Answer 7

Why is it so hard to believe that if we did...no, no, no! I cannot get my mind around a monkey becoming man.
I do believe it's possible that there were more than one set of Adams and Eves and it was only necessary to write about what happened to one set. Therefore the differences in color, speech, etc. I can believe in more than one Noah, it makes sense to me that the world is large enough to not be able to find the ark, or the area where the Adams and Eves lived. It also explained why incest was not necessary. And increases differences in color, speech, etc.
Makes sense to me.

Blessed Be

Answer 8

A monkey did not give birth to you. The species slowly changed. Just like how you changed from an infant into a full grown adult (supposidely).

Do you look ANYTHING like your baby pictures? Even your body ratio is completely different. You are living proof that subtle evolution is true.

There is no missing link. We are the same species that was once "monkey-like," but not we are a distinct sect in and of ourself.

Answer 9

You don't seem too far femoved from the monkeys. Intelligent design does not seem too intelligent. And once again, why do you have such a difficult time believing the universe was not intelligently created when you seem to have no problem believing God always was and always will be? By your rational, wouldn't an even more intelligent designer have had to design God?

Answer 10

There's an entire series of horse fossils that shows a slow steady progression from little tiny horses that had toes and lived in the forest to the tall plains animals with a single hoof.

It happens gradually, not all at once.
It's like education, you can't skip science class for Sunday school and think they're equivalent.

But I suppose a Homo Sapient can give birth to a Neanderthal sometimes.

Answer 11

If you could find the missing link what would it help you.You cannot put the clock back.Life is a chain of guided evolution, which was result in birth of mankind.Has somebody, identified anyother creation which has evoved after culmination mankinds' evolution.Different species are degenrating or even becoming extinct as they have outlived their utility.The objective was the creation of mankind and out of that the best of mankind-prophet Muhammad.