If advanced life does not evolve from inferior life, then humans must be stagnant or regressing?

Question

Where do creationists stand on this?

Answer 1

you tend to miss the point.

the point is that things evolve generally as a responce to a condition in thier environment (or a change in it) or as a result of a beneficial mutation that is passed on.

"beneficial" however as meant within the context of making one better suited to adapt to thier environment.

just becasue one has gills instead of lungs doesn't make the fish any less adapted than humans, it simply means the fish is better suited to live life in the ocean and the human better suited to live life on land.

a snake having poison to hunt and kill doesn't make it a "better" predator than a tiger, it makes it different and better suited to survive in its own environment than if it didn't have that adaptation.

evolution doesn't have a specific direction.

Answer 2

There really is no such things as superior and inferior life. Only different forms. Some tend to be more "advanced". Asking a Creationists to explain anything logically is an exercise in futility.

Answer 3

We are all copies of a once-perfect set of genes in Adam and Eve. God created genetically perfect humans in Adam which is partly why he lived to be 930 years old along with other men of his era...as you follow the ages of people after him, you'll see that they gradually die younger until after the flood when they start dying much younger. Average life expectancies were only in the mid thirties or fourties a few centuries ago in America and modern medicine/nutrition is the only reason we do not suffer those death rates today although some third world countries still experience them. If we are all copies of copies of copies over hundreds of generations with genetic defects increasing with every generation, one could say we are indeed getting worse...not better, genetically. Some studies and researchers predict the human race may go extinct in this century from the increasing amount of genetic defects. From 1966 to 1999, genetic defects in humans have gone from around 1400 to 12,000 and are increasing....not decreasing.
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"By 2031, it is estimated (R2 = 0.995) there will be 100,000 human genetic disorders and by 2096 1,000,000 (see Figure 3). “At least one clinical disorder has been related to 1,318 of the mapped loci (roughly 30%)” (McKusick, 1998, Vol. 1, xiii - xviii). That suggests genetic disorder saturation of each locus by 2031 and supersaturation by 2096. These data confirm human devolution and suggest imminent permanent genetic extinction in this century."
http://www.csulb.edu/~jmastrop/data3.html
Devolution is not really a scientific term but you get the point....we are not E-volving but De-volving or degrading in genetic nature and cannot keep up with rapid changes in environment or prolonged exposure to inferior/malignant genetics that once may have been eliminated. Disease or genetic disorders that once would have caused death are now treatable, if not curable, and extend life spans so as to spread throughout the population more. Most would agree that harmful mutations, for the most part, far exceed beneficial ones.

Answer 4

I am not religious or a creationist. All I will say is if you look at some of the youth of today they are both stagnant and have regressed.

Answer 5

I believe in the creation theory...and I strongly believe that we have evolved. How could someone say that we have not...considering how our culture is now and how it was in the middle ages is a huge difference. Humans are expanding their knowledge ever day, but if your asking if:
I don't believe in monkeys, can we evolve??? Well clearly yes, we can. I personally haven't seen any wings growing on humans or gills to evolve us that way, but I see most humans as intelligent.

Answer 6

i think that the arrival years human beings would comprehend the futility of the violence and characteristic a tendency to grow to be tolerant and the destiny human existence would be non violent. All have become civilized and knowledgeable and there would be entire information among the human beings concerning the preciousness of the existence. Mutual appreciate, mutual dependency and mutual tolerance will succeed. each thing would be obtainable in abundance around the globe.this would in all possibility take place after a large disaster - synthetic or organic, which could be the attention opener concerning the preciousness of existence.

Answer 7

I prefer not to use terms like "advanced", "inferior", "lesser", etc. In one sense, all organisms now alive are equally "evolved", but what bothers me is that those terms smack of the old (wrong) model of evolution as a ladder with humans at the top, instead of a branching tree (right) with humans as just another branch.

Answer 8

God created the modern human as advanced as we are going to get. Our scientists will only create inferior copies of humans for a long time to come.

Answer 9

Evolution does not contend that life "advances" (just that it adapts). "Advancement" is an arbitrary personal judgement. I thought atheists were experts with "logic". What happened?

Answer 10

Thats it most are regressive and many are stagnant..!!