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| quote: | | I don't believe in evolution for many reasons (and I am not blindly saying this, I took anthropology, and though I might not have a perfect understanding of these researched facts, I have a fair understanding of them). Firstly, I find it hard to believe that we originated from micro-organisms that evolved into neanderthals, that in turn evolved into what we currently are. How is it, that all these microorganisms evolved into different things; plants, animals, humans. Why were we the only stem of these evolved organisms that developed a high intelligence, and why did all the others stay far behind? |
Just look at evolution at this way:
1. No two creatures are equal
2. Within the same species, some creatures are stronger/smarter/better adapted than the others.
3. Children are usually similar to their parents.
I think we both agree that all three of these points are correct.
Obviously children of better adapted parents will usually be better adapted as well. Some may not be, but some may be even more than their parents. That's the point of evolution.
Also, here is a good example of evolution through selective breeding by humans. Look at all the varieties of dogs that all came from a common ancestor? Or do you say that god created all the varieties of dogs as well? Also, I am very interested in how you would explain historical evidence of people existing before 7000 years ago when you say god created earth. And most importantly, where do you think came from all the knowledge humans had by that time? They were chased out of eden where they did nothing themselves into this world, where they had to do all by themselves. Did they invent agriculture, domesticated animals and plants, discovered metal working, bronze, iron, war machines, architecture in few hundred years?
And what about archeological finds? Obviously, they don't agree with the bible, because judging by them it took much more for men to become what he is now. Did god plant all of that on the earth just to fool us? How do you explain Neanderthal bones that are so similar to us, yet different? And their age? You can say you don't believe in carbon dating, but that is not a good explanation, because it is pretty much accurate on a large scale. Are dinosaur bones also just a fake? Finally, do you truly believe in silly bible stories like Noah's arc? Do you truly believe he put 2 members of every species on his boat? What about plant species? What did he feed them? What if a lion came out and ate, say, a zebra female? Finally, what size of a boat did he have? I would like if you could explain to me those things.
Now, the evolution from microorganisms to us took billions! of years. That is billions of years, better members of the species had more offspring than weaker ones. How do you explain that we share more than 60% of our DNA with the most distant sort of bacteria to us, and about 99% of it with a chimpanzee? Is that also fake?
Now, about our large brains...Not every species stayed far behind. The Apes have pretty large brains, about a 1/3 of our own. Dolphin's brains are similarily sized to ours, some say even bigger, but they are aquatic, and without hands, so it's impossible for them to make tools and advance. Now, about the apes, they can be tought sign language, they use tools, they have about 30 different "words" in their vocal vocabulary, they have organized groups and alliances within their tribes, not much unlike us, except at a more primitive scale. Many of our facial gestures are very similar to apes. When you hear say, a razor scratch on a glass, it's an irritating sound, because it is very similar to chimpanzee cry for danger. Look at the facial similarities between man and an ape.
We are sort of evolutionary pioneers, no species yet achieved what we did now. But that doesn't mean it won't only that it will take time. But how come there are no others? Look at all the animal diversity, very few species of different branches have same intellectual capacities. A chance that species from two branches developed almost same brains, appendixes capable of manipulating objects, and were group animals, are almost infinitesimal. There were neanderthals, though, which are again a branch very close to ours, they either died away, or mixed with humans, that is yet to be determined.
Two more questions for you:
1. How do you explain fetus development, where you can see that fetus at different stages has gills, tail, and other stuff. Those are observable facts, and a young human fetus looks almost exactly like a fish, bird, or any other vertebrae fetus. Also, how do you explain people with atavism deformities, like tail, hair all over them, etc...
2. Do you really believe that out of 100+billion stars in our galaxy which is one of almost countless number of galaxies, there exists no planet with a biosphere?
Now, to believe in god as some supreme being that created all around us, like our universe is acceptable to me. But believing he did it 7000 years ago, and all of it's creation centered around earth and humans is definiteley not. Why the hell would he create all the planets and galaxies in the universe, if he would plant life on only one of them? And why bother the only ones he did create with bunch of unreal planted evidence for things that don't exist?
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