Mr Sniffles. I respect your ideas about Jesus, but I have to say I'm a bit concerned about your view of evolution. There is no reason to make derogatory statements about 'descending from monkeys'. Many mammals display human-like affections towards their own families and offspring. Have you ever heard of the experiment mentioned in Carl Sagan's book about rhesus monkeys refusing to eat food so that their fellows wouldn't be electrically shocked? Many of them were willing to starve rather than see their own kind suffer. Should I point out the obvious to you? That they have never attended a Sunday School class?
I make no apologies for my belief, as i am sure you dont. I believe the bible word for word till proven wrong, which it never has been.
Simple question, where did we come from? I believe evolution is a religion , you cant prove one kind of animal has ever given birth to a completely new kind of animal, you cant prove a big bang, you cant prove the earth is millions of years old, you cant prove that life came from a non living object. you have to believe by faith, the same faith i use to believe in JESUS. evolution THEROY! how can a thery be defended as fact. you cant prove evolution , i cant prove the existence of GOD, I just know how he has worked in my life. .
It seems to me a large part of the problem today with anti-evolutionists is their disdain for animals. But animals are not evil, they struggle for survival just like we humans do. We are 98 percent or so genetically identical to chimpanzees and bonobos. Are we really to believe that we are in no way animals ourselves?
Indeed, various kinds of animals and plants were created individually, not just humans. Plants were to produce seed ‘after their kind’ meaning that bean plants were to produce bean seeds; and cattle would give birth to cattle, etc. (Gen. 1:11,12,21,24,25). So there is no hint in Scripture of any kind of an evolutionary process where one kind of organism would change into another kind.
Evolutionists believe not only that mankind evolved from an ape-like creature, but that ultimately everything evolved from a single-celled organism which happened to arise from non-living matter. They claim that the similarities between living things are proof that they evolved from common ancestors. They cite such things as the similarity between human and chimp DNA, similarities between embryos, claimed vestigial organs, and claimed transitional fossils between different kinds—such as supposed ape-men.
The idea that human beings and chimps have close to 100% similarity in their DNA is often claimed to prove that humans evolved from apes. The figures quoted vary: 97%, 98%, or even 99% similarity, depending on who is telling the story.
Firstly, similarity is not necessarily evidence for common ancestry but may be due to a common designer. Think about the original Porsche and a Volkswagen ‘Beetle’ cars. They both had air-cooled, flat, horizontally-opposed, 4-cylinder engines in the rear, independent rear suspension, two doors, boot (trunk) in the front, and many other similarities. Why did these two very different cars have so many similarities? Because they had the same designer! Whether similarity is morphological (shape, form) or biochemical is of no consequence to the lack of logic in this argument for evolution.
If humans were entirely different to all other living things, or indeed every living thing was entirely different, would this reveal the Creator to us? No! We could logically think that there must have been many creators rather than one. The unity of the creation is testimony to the One True God who made it all (Romans 1:20).
If humans were entirely different to all other living things, then what would we eat? If we are to eat food to gain nutrients and energy to live, what would we eat if every other organism on Earth were fundamentally different biochemically? How could we digest them and how could we use the amino acids, sugars, etc., if they were different from the ones we have in our bodies? Biochemical similarity is necessary for us to eat! Even in an unfallen world where animals and people ate only plants, if animals and humans did not share similar biochemistry, there would have to be separate plant kingdoms for animals and humans to eat.
If the evolutionary story about the origin of living things were true there should be millions of fossils showing the transitions from one kind of organism to another. After all, they say there have been hundreds of millions of years of mutations and natural selection, and the rock layers recorded this ‘natural history’ as fossils. Yet there are precious few, and even evolutionists cannot agree on their significance. Claimed evidence of fossils linking different kinds of organisms does not stand scrutiny.34
The lack of transitional fossils even drove evolutionists to propose a new mode of evolution in the late 1970s so they could go on believing in evolution without the need to find transitional fossils. This idea—punctuated equilibrium—basically says that the evolutionary changes occurred so quickly, geologically speaking, that no fossils were preserved to show them
The supposed evidence for evolution does not withstand critical examination.36 The evidence is better understood in the context of God creating different basic kinds of organisms. These were capable of adapting to different environments by sorting the original created genetic information (re-shuffled by sexual reproduction), via natural selection. Some variation has been generated by mutations, but these are degenerate changes involving loss of genetic information, or at best horizontal changes where information is not lost or gained.
The probability of natural processes generating new genetic information is so low that evolution could not possibly account for the origin of the vast amounts of complex coded information in living things.37 Creation is the explanation consistent with the evidence.
this is some stuff i found on the topic that i copied...... ugh , I hate typing so much.
I could go on for days , but my ADD kicked in a hour ago,
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