That we humans used to be monkeys or that the world is only 6000yrs old? btw i believe the world is only 6000 years old and dont believe we used to be monkeys. and it is hard to believe the mainstream way of thinking is we used to be monkeys.
2007-09-16 05:59:30 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
man i guess i am dumb then.
2007-09-16 12:49:19 · update #1
well first this is in the wrong category. As for your rediculous question, how can you possibly deny the age of the earth? There is concrete scientific proof that the earth is older than that, even if you deny the 4.54 billion year age, how can any rational individual deny that it is older than 6,000. The Egyptians were around longer than 6,000 years ago and were building a great civilization, they were using moarter to construct huge buildings by 4,000 B.C.E (same as b.c.). Do you think that the Egyptians rode around on dinosaurs, why is there not literary reference to dinosaurs or graphic depictions of them if they were running around eating people? The oldest granary yet found dates back to 9500 BCE and is located in the Jordan Valley. What is your explanation of these things?
As for your your "humans used to be monkeys" issue, we were never monkeys we evolved from a common ancestor. Did you know that human DNA is 98.4% identical to chimpanzees? Did you know that DNA has proven that whales and hippos shared a common ancestor? What is your explanation of this, that DNA is just a the figment of every scientist's immaginaiton?
I can almost understand not believing in evolution, after all there is no absolute irrefutable proof that it is true, although there is a lot of extremely convincing evidence.
But not believing that the earth is more than 6,000 years old! Come on there IS absolute irrefutable PROOF that is is much older than that.
This reminds me of when the Roman Catholic Church claimed that it was herretical to say that the earth is not the center of the universe when it clearly is.
The problem is not that the science and the theology are incompatible. the problem lies in the inability of the church to accept that their interpretation is wrong.
The Bible states that to God a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day. This is not literal but means that since God exists outside of space and time he can not be bound to the human concept of time and thus the 6 days that he created everything can easily be 60 billion years.
Please open your mind and apply logic and reason to the evidence you are presented and examine why you are convinced that it is so incompatible with your theology.
Please tell me where in the Bible it is written that the world began in 4,000 bc, I would love to read that.
2007-09-16 06:36:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I disagree with evolutionary theory, but you have distorted what the theory actually describes. You were never a monkey. Neither was I.
As to the age of the Earth, it is ironic that people who believe as you do rely on the technology for day to day life, but then disagree with it when it doesn't meet with religious doctrine.
If a member of you family had been discovered dead and you wanted justice, the same technology that would be used is very similar to that which is used to determine lineage of species.
If you have a child or a parent, the same genetic testing that would determine your lineage or you as the parent (which we also use in court to 'prove' paternity) is also used to determine the lineage of other human species.
I was curious though on where all the fossils came from. If the world is only 6000 years old there would be written recordings of animals that large by a variety of cultures where the bones and remains have been found. Wouldn't they?
The question though, is why did you believe that the world is only that age. Apparently, you were told this or read it somewhere and you believed it without question. I'd also be curious knowing why when we learn such information as children that we continue these beliefs as adults. After all, I'm sure that you no longer believe in the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and Santa.
2007-09-16 13:08:47 · answer #2 · answered by guru 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
both in that sense - you're making the mistake of literalizing too much.
First of all, if you go by the 1 day = 1,000 years, yes, 6,000 years for creation. But you forget that there are....66 books in the bible, that cover a LOT of time. Easily 10,000 years or more. And that it's been 2000 years since they were written. That's more than 6,000 years.
Additionally, the 1 day = 1000 years is one reference. It's intended to tell you that time is not the same here as it is there. God is timeless - 1 day might be 100,000 years if he wishes. It's his perogative. Don't try to limit him or make him work by your calendar. It might annoy him - it would annoy me!
Finally, evolution is not "people came from monkeys". Evolution is "organisms change on a genetic level over time" God created the birds of the air, the fish of the sea, and the animals of the land, but not in the way you see them today. Fish have evolved, and it's possible that's were crocodiles come from, for example. Also, God made the apple, and used me to make the apple pie, so I did the work, but he cuased it! or, we birth children, yet all children come from God. aRe you saying that becuase "we" birthed the children, they aren't made by god? Or, would you say, "God used you to make that child?" Maybe you should read that as "through a process, God created man", instead of "bam, finished work". Not that he couldn't have, just that...well, what fun would that be? God used evolution to make the flora and fauna of the world as we know it.
No, we didn't come from monkeys, but we didnt' look like we do now.
2007-09-16 13:46:12 · answer #3 · answered by lisa w 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No sure of the exact figure, but the planet is significantly more than 6000 years old. That sounds like the idea that was propounded by Ussher and as far as I know has no basis in fact.
For the record we were never monkeys, but may have been descended from apes. The timescales for all this are significantly more than a mere 6000 years though!
2007-09-16 13:09:45 · answer #4 · answered by wanderjahre 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, I don't believe either. I believe that the world came to be at about ten thousand BC, which, if you looke through the times and ages in the Bible, you'll find that it works out. As for the monkeys... We share at least 50% of our DNA with Bananas, and I'm pretty sure that we aren't related to them. Thus, the sharing of DNA doesn't mean that we evolved from that creature. And besides, wouldn't all of the monkeys have evolved? And why don't we have any skeletons of inbetween creatures, like, say, something half monkey, half bird, or whatever. Even Darwin himself denounced his theories of evolution before he died, and they never even included the idea that we evolved from monkeys. So, seriously, I have no idea where people got that from.
2007-09-16 13:09:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I wonder.....if the world is only 6000 years old.....where did the fossils & archilogical sites for neolithic man come from?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic
There are records of early settlements going back to 7000 years B.C. That's 9000 years ago.
2007-09-16 13:13:30 · answer #6 · answered by Canadian Ken 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The mainstream way is a why to dismiss the idea of a supreme being. An to mold your though to their way to control.
2007-09-20 12:33:12 · answer #7 · answered by Mogollon Dude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
btw the world is 10 billion years old and the human race is 100000 years old
2007-09-16 13:36:54 · answer #8 · answered by pinkish 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You're a good person and I'm sure that Mommy and Daddy are proud of you.
Doug
2007-09-16 13:22:02 · answer #9 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe either, mostly because monkeys give me the creeps.
2007-09-16 13:07:28 · answer #10 · answered by chnctkr/♥brkr 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋