if not how did we get here?
2007-09-23 16:36:37 · 49 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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Evolution, as the source of variety within an animal family? yes.
evolution as the raw materials for one family of animal to change into an entirely different one? no.
Abiogenesis? No.
2007-09-23 16:40:39 · answer #1 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Evolution is the scientific theory that explains the biological law of Natural Selection. Evolution is a fact, like Earth revolves around the sun. The theory part refers to the manner in which evolution actually takes place.
No, scientists are not omniscient. Their knowledge is not divine, infinite and infallible. What scientists do, however, is observe, study, experiment on reality and draw conclusions from their observations. The conclusions of scientific knowledge produce actual practical results, such as the steam engine, the light bulb, the airplane, satellites, the internet and the computer. These things tell us that, even though we humans don't know EVERYTHING, what we know is true knowledge because things do actually work according to the laws of the universe and do not contradict reality.
Beside preparing for the Afterlife, can anyone name anything practical that Faith, rather than Reason, has produced since the time we lived in caves?
2007-09-23 16:52:10 · answer #2 · answered by DrEvol 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, I believe in God.
But science tells me about DNA, evolution, and big bang and other things which I can understand, admire with awe, and accept as the truth as we know it today. We may know and accept something quite different in the future. Like the Flat Earth Society should know already that the Earth is not flat.
So God is the Great Designer, the Ultimate Scientist, He created the laws of the universe -big bang and evolution are tools for Him to create/destroy something we can never fully comprehend.
The rib and dust and Adam and Eve is symbolic for what happened. The Old Testament was given to the faithful as far as they could understand about the world back then.
Jesus preached in parabels and that is how the creation of the world was told to earlyy man, as a story. The deeper meaning of the parabels and stories was for us to understand what it meant in the real world. God gave us free will and we chose to grab evil.
We "ate from the tree of knowledge" which here and now means that we know too much... I don't think God wanted the Bible to have any references to DNA and other evoutionary concepts some 6000 years ago. They people ould have had no idea what it meant.
Many still don't know or understand DNA and evolution today. They belong to the NO DNA, NO EVOLUTION Society. DNA proves that evolution has taken place since life began on planet Earth, Evolution is happening each and every day until Earth can no longer support any type of life form based on DNA.
2007-09-23 16:56:01 · answer #3 · answered by realme 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have no problem with limited evolution. But there is no working model that can demonstrate how highly complex organsims could have assembled themselves as there appears to be no mechanism to sort the left handed amino acids from the right in a primitive pool Despite years of intense research they have been unable to assemble proteins. The only way to get a realsitic understanding of what random mutation can do is a a molcular level. It is critical to appreciate this.Properly evaluating Darwin's theory absolutely requires evaluating random mutation and natural selection at a molecular level. Even today such an undertaking is intensely ennormous. Yet there is no other way.
2007-09-23 16:58:37 · answer #4 · answered by Edward J 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
evolution is very real. If you take any skelleton of a primate big or small and place it next to a human skelleton the resimblance is very noticeable. A bit out of perportion but still very similare.
But in the end it realy comes down to point of view. Either you belive in science or religon.
And if evolution isnt real then why is there micro organisums found in the ocean (Where life originated) that have almost the same DNA sequences as all life on the planet including us.
2007-09-23 16:44:49 · answer #5 · answered by KneeDeep 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.Evolution is a belief system constructed to explain origins of this universe,just like creation science.
The latter have the honesty to admit this the former do not(most of them anyhow,even Dawkins and Darwin admitted that Evolution was a form of indoctrination)
I believe we were created in a literal 6 day week simply because the Bible says so.
Science gives no reason not to believe otherwise but offers alternate theories.That is the extent to which sound empirical science(unlike evolution) can go.
God bless you.
2007-09-23 16:53:41 · answer #6 · answered by Wonderwall 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If evolution is real, explain where the matter for the universe came from in the very beginning if you don't believe in God. Time had to have had a starting point. God is outside of time which makes it very hard to comprehend that he has always been here. And as for evolution, it is a theory. We are not randomly selected survival of the fittest people. We were designed.
2007-09-23 16:44:27 · answer #7 · answered by Alex 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There is no need to believe. I'm with all these people who state that evolution is a series of scientific observations creating a theory.
Theory of course is not law.
The Theory of Radio Wave Propogation
The Law of Gravity
Super String Theory
Laws of Physics
Read "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. You'll be enlightened.
2007-09-23 17:17:15 · answer #8 · answered by theGODwatcher_ 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, I believe that evolution is a proven scientific theory (the definition of "theory" is different in the scientific community, than it is in everyday language. In the scientific community, gravity is a "theory").
Most people I know who don't believe in evolution, generally believe that we were created by God.
2007-09-23 16:43:35 · answer #9 · answered by rita_alabama 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but I believe some other power started the whole thing. Evolution is a proven fact.
2007-09-23 16:42:08 · answer #10 · answered by red 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
yes, after reading books on evolution,it's obvious that's how nature produces all living things in the world. It's also the way G-D chooses to run the creation (how brilliant)
2007-09-23 16:44:50 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋