Intelligent life! How can atoms form into things like humans. Why aren't we just big forms of plasma. It just seems so complicated. Like there was some sort of DIVINE intervention.
2007-10-28 08:56:52 · 10 answers · asked by Watch it bub! 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, the fact that you don't understand evolution is not quite the same thing as proving that God exists.
2007-10-28 09:04:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like more than one thing about evolution you don't get. The "argument from ignorance/incredulity" is not one you should bring up if you want respect from others. ("I personally can't figure out how x works, therefore it must have been a supernatural event") aka the "goddidit argument. Just because YOU don't understand doesn't mean others don't, and it certainly is no evidence of a deity.
To take your main question about the evolution of intelligence, there is good evidence that the brain size to body size is the main determinant of a species intelligence. There is also good evidence that intelligence, or at least sentience (self awareness") is simply an emergent phenomenon. That is, there seems to be a critical mass of neurons, or more precisely the number of interconnections between neurons that allow for intelligence. Based on this idea, it is predicted that as computers become more powerful, they may become "intelligent"
2007-10-28 16:04:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, pure Divine intervention. A paper cut on the finger heals, not because the brain tells it to, or the hand has a say in it, or because the body wants to look good, but because the Truth which formed it also governs and maintains it. Evolution is like a woman being made from a rib. Both concepts are erroneous. God is the Creator, and not of mortal thought which holds false concepts as being reality and true.
2007-10-28 16:30:23 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All of life has some level of intelligence. One species by definition has to be on the top of the intelligence ladder. We're it.
I think that intelligence is our evolutionary advantage. We aren't the strongest species, we're not the fastest, we have relatively weak physical constitutions (it doesn't take a lot to kill us), we're more susceptible to disease than a lot of species, we're very susceptible to the elements. If we didn't develop intelligence, and therefore figured out ways to survive we would have never made it.
Assuming there was some sort of "divine inspiration" is something that is just done to fill in the gaps of your understanding. There's no *real* reason to believe that some magical, invisible, supernatural being had anything to do with it.
2007-10-28 16:09:46 · answer #4 · answered by Jess H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
divine intervention? maybe. but there is no evidence of it.
there is evidence that life has changed quite a bit over the past hundreds of millions of years.
math can be complex; does that make your calculator "magic?" Maybe complexity is a puzzle to be solved.
2007-10-28 16:02:43 · answer #5 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Seems like you don't understand any bit of evolution, then. Not that you really care for answers (which is what it sounds like), but the simple answer is natural selection.
2007-10-28 16:07:59 · answer #6 · answered by khard 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Intelligent life? Where?
2007-10-28 15:59:38 · answer #7 · answered by ~Smirk~ Resurrected 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nobody said life was easy, much less easy to understand! I don't understand how god could breath life into dirt.
2007-10-28 16:00:59 · answer #8 · answered by punch 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is very apparently that there is considerably more than "one part of evolution" that you really don't understand.
2007-10-28 17:02:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean God did it. Plenty of people DO understand it. It's not unfathomable.
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2007-10-28 16:01:15 · answer #10 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋