For those who believe everything on earth was put here for us,?

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I see this as a poor argument for the existance of supernatural. Have you ever thought that instead, life adapted to the environment it was given (similar to what we see with microevolution)? Do you see this as a possibility; why or why not?

Ryan, don't assume I haven't picked up a science book. I have anthropology, psychology, and a little biology in my background.

"So if we adapt to it for our best use....isnt it here for us???"

Biologically, life evolves naturally through basic mechanisms like natural selection.

We, as individuals, adapt to our environments because the willingness to survive is an advantageous trait.

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http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/

Answer 2

The premise does not yield the conclusion directly. Even if we were to assume everything on Earth "was put here for us," this only suggests the existence of a greater power. Not necessarily "supernatural," for perhaps this greater power is bound by the same rules of nature that we are bound by. Moreover, the "greater power" responsible for the creation of the universe -need not necessarily exist anymore.-

The argument that life somehow "adapted" to the environment it was given has some real issues. The first is is that life could have been -designed to evolve.- Thus, any adaptation you can point to could be part of a design.

A more glaring, problem, however, is the counter-argument of "irreducible complexity."

Let me explain this as best I can. We know from observation that a mousetrap has a spring, switch, lock, hammer, and a board -- which work together as a system to trap a mouse. No mouse could be caught if any one of these components were absent.

A board alone would not accomplish this function. If placed in a natural context -- a board that evolved to have a spring would not catch any more mice than just a board. Since there is no competitive advantage that the board with a spring holds over just a board, there would be no reason for speciation by natural selection.

Life systems are even more complex. The reproductive system, digestive system, nervous system, immune system -- each has thousands of components interworking together to perform a function. If you remove such components from a given system, you don't get a lesser effective system. You get a non-functional system. Such complexity prevents adaptation from explaining the origin of all species from a common ancestor, for natural selection relies on competitive advantages.

Although the theory of irreducible complexity still permits certain forms of adaptation -- i.e., those in which each "adaptive step" necessarily yields a competitive advantage. In essence, only a very linear progression would be possible -- not the kind that could ever yield a jet engine if started from a propeller plane.

Answer 3

Why is it that so many Christians that accept "microevolution" (adaptation) can't also accept "macroevolution" (speciation)? The mechanisms are the same, both within and outside of the living organism. There is evidence of both. They just apply to different scales--one is measured by genes and individuals, the other by populations and entire species.

I don't have a problem with the supernatural. I love to imagine things. It just doesn't belong in a science classroom.

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No, I don't see it as a possibility from a purely religious standpoint, for God told Adam that he had "dominion" or "complete authority over all the earth. God put it here and set man up as the stewards or keepers of it all and man allowed sin to enter into the equation and ruin it all! Scientifically speaking, it's possible, for all creatures adapt to their environment , even in the most imperceptible of ways.

Answer 5

I believe that everything was put here to enjoy life and live and move and exist. So were we as people why do people always have to assume everything is all about them?
We'nt we to take care of them? Maybe it was for them and we are the caretakers? we were given the brains to take better care of the little helpless animals.
I think everything was put here to enjoy life.
The super natural is the spirit beings who put us all here.
I believe we were made by something or someone.

Answer 6

It is very possible to be a scientific Christian, someone who believes in as much science as the Bible. Its silly to think someone snapped their fingers and there was all of a sudden many different forms of life, but its also as silly to think some gases got together and spontanously exploded into a bunch of planets and stars. Where did the universe really come from? Its been here way before God people, hate to break it to you, even God had a beginning. I believe in evolution yes, but when I say I didnt evolove from a monkey, I mean it. And instead of bashing me for saying I didnt come from a monkey, how about you pick up a science book and look it up yourself?

Answer 7

Who knows why and for what, as far as I am concerned we could be here to collect data for another dimension authority's stupidity satellites, which in turn will inform yet another dimension that this ******' galaxy has a cold.

Answer 8

who put life on the earth to create words like adaptation and environment? So if we adapt to it for our best use....isnt it here for us???

Answer 9

Obviously African Guinea Worms exist only for humans. So who or what's responsible for that disgusting parasite? God or evolution?

Answer 10

Then how come there is no life on Venus, Mars, etc, if life adopts to the environment???????

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Science is the devil Bobby Boucher