I ask: "Evolution?? If everything evolved and we all came from chimps then where did every thing start?" Well I got over run with replys. then I asked : DANG DID I HIT A NERVE? and no one knew what I was talking about. Sorry my bad.
2007-11-15 00:49:41 · 22 answers · asked by Lamont Eddy 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
People just love to rave both ways about evolution.
2007-11-15 00:52:11 · answer #1 · answered by KyLoveChick 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Evolution has nothing to do with the beginnings of life. It only deals with changes in species:
1 - individuals within species vary
2 - some of these variations are passed on to offspring
3 - more offspring are produced than can survive
4 - individuals with the most favorable adaptations are more likely to survive and reproduce.
AND we did not come from chimps - we, and the other apes out there, have a COMMON ANCESTOR.
To figure out where everything started, read up on the Big Bang theory & abiogenesis.
2007-11-15 08:55:45 · answer #2 · answered by ill_be_phd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a package on your door step. You didn't see it arrive. Do you say God put it there?
It has a shipping company label. Does that mean it was created at a FedEx warehouse?
It has an Amazon.com logo on the box and your address on the label. You didn't order it. Does that mean God went on Amazon.com to send you a present?
Not being able to trace all the way back does not invalidate the science, or prove the existence of God.
Looking over the answers, there were some sound ones that clearly refuted your roundabout First Cause argument. Did you hit a nerve? No. You were pwned.
By the way, your grandmother sent you a sweater she knitted. She reused an Amazon.com box.
2007-11-15 12:17:13 · answer #3 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created chimps & mankind. However, some people believe that & some don't. Moreover, mankind was created in God's image & have an eternal soul. As for hitting a nerve: This is a heated debate with many people.
2007-11-15 08:59:48 · answer #4 · answered by Jesus Loves Connie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We didn't all come from chimps. Evolution doesn't say that. Humans are part of the ape family, and we came from common ancestors.
Abiogenesis is not part of evolution. That is a separate question. Evolution only addresses what happened to life AFTER it began. That's not a copout, it's simply a separate question for a different sort of research.
2007-11-15 08:54:33 · answer #5 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
If we look at the universe as a whole and historically, we see that things come into existence, integrate, and go out of existence, disintegrate, continuously. There was never a time without existence. Existence has no beginning. There is only continuous change. Such being the case has stunning implications about God for people like me who believe.
2007-11-15 08:57:32 · answer #6 · answered by jaicee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what are you talking about?
"The important thing to remember is that evolutionary theory is a scientific theory about how life has developed - this means that it begins with the premise that life already exists. It makes no claims as to how that life got here."
Maybe you should read more about the theory because it has very little to do with the beginning.
Why are you posting these in the in R & S Section?
2007-11-15 08:52:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The basic timeline is a 4.6 billion year old Earth, with (very approximately):
4 billion years of simple cells (prokaryotes),
3 billion years of photosynthesis,
2 billion years of complex cells (eukaryotes),
1 billion years of multicellular life,
600 million years of simple animals,
570 million years of arthropods (ancestors of insects, arachnids and crustaceans)
550 million years of complex animals
500 million years of fish and proto-amphibians,
475 million years of land plants,
400 million years of insects and seeds,
360 million years of amphibians,
300 million years of reptiles,
200 million years of mammals,
150 million years of birds,
130 million years of flowers,
65 million years since the non-avian dinosaurs died out and
2 million years since humans started looking like they do today.
Everything started with single celled organisms in the Theory of Evolution. These single celled organisms mutated over time... and eventually became the next step in the chain. Those single cells, by the way, were created by the Earth colliding with another planet...
Actually this might help to explain it best: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_evolution
2007-11-15 09:01:11 · answer #8 · answered by thegirlwholovedbrains 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how is getting answers to a question "hitting a nerve?" Sounds like spin, quite frankly.
we came from prosimians, a common ancestor of humans and apes/monkeys...not from chimps.
2007-11-15 08:53:39 · answer #9 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The question seems fine.
If there ever was a time when nothing existed then nothing would exist today.
Either God exist and is eternal and created everything or matter is eternal and has always existed.
2007-11-15 08:55:33 · answer #10 · answered by Pat 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋