let's be realistic...?

Question

unless you're just burying your head in the sand, you can't deny that other lifeforms inhabited this planet long before man, and for much longer. certain insects such as the cockroach have been around for millions of years. modern man has only been around for roughly 50,000. and long after we're gone, other lifeforms will most likely prevail and continue to procreate. what is god's purpose for these other lifeforms that have both proceded our existence and will eventually follow our extinction? was there any point to them existing long before us, and is there any purpose for them existing long after us?

derek b, there are these things known as fossils... if you're going to play dumb and disregard the science that goes into dating such evidence, then you might as well throw out science altogether, and just pray every time you get sick that you get better.

itena, you mean god could not have made earth already inhabitable for man as it suggest he did in genesis? are you putting limitations on his power?

Answer 1

Is there any point for us existing? Because our purpose is similar to theirs, I am sure, and it doesn't involve doing as much damage to our planet and the other species on it as we can, that's for sure.

Answer 2

Actually they deserve to live as much as we do. The other thing is we do not know how long one of God's days are.
Most of the animals we have today are survivors of lots of catakismic events. We have maybe 1% of the original life forms that was here before us.
Who knows what they looked like, some monkeys walk upright and I remember seeing a national geographic special with these tall white monkeys that looked just like people.
Running on their back legs. If all you saw was bones 1000's of years old could you say for certain it was not a man?
The earth was perfect and the animals lived in a paradise of lush forests and clear streams of water and snow capped mountains. Probably been here for millions of years awaiting man's arrival. We are only like God in that we have a brain.
Our physical body he probably thought long and hard about.
It's shape and color and what it could do really didn't matter.
Because it had a brain, that is all that seperates us from the animals. We make cars, airplanes, and boats which enable us to do what the animals do. Run fast, fly, and go through the water. We have even made rockets that carry us to the moon. If we had a face like a snake, a lizard, a bear or even a monkey didn't matter. We had a brain that could imagine and process information. Make this computer, what animals can do that? That is how we are like God.
What did we do with that brain?

Answer 3

If you eliminate religion from the equation, man is just another animal that evolved from whatever and co-exists aggressively and destructively with the other lifeforms on the planet. We were not "given" this planet by God. We are just another life form ... but unfortunately the most destructive and deadly. We're definitely throw-backs.
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Answer 4

Derek B : Show me proof of an afterlife, then you can say whatever you want.
I grew up in the country, near a river. I often found fossils. I really think it'd be rediculous to say some scientist decided he was going to MAKE it and PUT it right there for me to find. The animal that was preserved in that soil WAS alive at one point, and it was way before Jesus' time. But then, you also never see those fossilized animals in the bible's pretty pictures.

Answer 5

Suppose you were raised on an island in total isolation from human society. You were trained as a paleontologist or zoologist. Then after your education, you traveled around the world, and visited excavation sites where fossils were found. You surveyed 1000s of fossils and skeletons of every species in the research institutes. You would logically conclude that evolution, for instance, was the best testable theory to explain the origin of species.

Free from contamination from religion and its charismatic showmen from the Babylonian priests to the Hams and Hovinds of today, you would see the world clearly as it should be seen. Children have a right to cultivate their curiosity about the world free from the psychological damage caused religion, forced on them by insecure and envious adults.

Answer 6

Perhaps if those beings did not exist, the world would not be habitable for man, or whatever is supposed to inhabit the earth in the future, etc. God created everything for a reason, and it's probably too complicated for us to understand.

Answer 7

i think of the thought of a 2 state answer is a non-starter, and this is the clarification why: that ingredient has come and now that's long previous. the place is the land for the two state answer? there isn't any way Israel would be keen to allocate distinctive land, i'm optimistic they could choose to depart Gaza out of the equation, and that i'm incredibly optimistic that Palestinians do now not want a land locked united states. there is likewise no way Israel could comply with a one state answer that risk-free the Arabs, because of the fact they do now not choose to grow to be the minority. no person needs to compromise, and it quite is now not in basic terms one communities fault, it quite is the fault of the two events. for my area, there's now not a answer for the Israel/Palestine conflict, because of the fact no person needs to make the 1st pass, and there are too many outsiders putting their oars in, now not least of that's the US.

Answer 8

yes -let us be realistic-thetre is Sun-Moon-planets-stars-Air -Rains -Life forms -realistic-Reality-an Order-Rhythm-occasionally some aberrations--The Supreme commander who controls this Order-Rhythm-we give a name God--when you say the alphabet "Pie" the entire Mathematical Community in the world understand that it is a "constant reletionship(22/7) between the Diameter and Circumference of a circle however big or small the Circle is"-.mathematicians do not say the whole sentence every time--they simply say "Pie"--after all it is only an Alphabet for a layman.same way we say "Sanno Mitra samVarunaha-Sanno Bhavat Thuryamaan----Rhythm Vadhishyaami-Satyam Vadhishyaami"-that order,that rhythm,that gradual orderly changes(Evolution) was/is /will be there for Zillions of years--you understand the 'How" of Evolution ,but you do not "Stage Manage" that Evolution-GOD does the creation and Evolution..

Answer 9

Let's be realistic. The writers did not have our knowledge of the world, nor our vocabulary. But its purpose was not as a science text book. Its purpose was to send the message.

Answer 10

yes, i can deny that lifeforms existed onthis earth millions of years ago... and no, im not an ostrich.... the earth is a few thousand years old at most.... where do people get the facts that say the earth is million or even billions of years old???there are many purposes for GODs creation of different life forms.....we all serve a purpose here.