How can any thinking, reasoning adult disregard decades of scientific study showing the evolutionary process?
Without meaning to show any disrespect to religious fundamentalists, evolution has seeds based in fact, religion is only theory.
I believe in God. I believe in evolution. I do not see any conflict between the two. I believe we have painted an incorrect picture of what God looks like based on the wording in Genesis that says ‘God created man in his image’. We immediately associate that image with modern man because this is the only image of man we have, therefore we assume God looks like modern man. Using this ‘backwards proof’ as ‘knowledge’ of what God looks like, has led to much confusion and has allowed ignorance to be accepted as fact.
This is like looking at an apple and ‘knowing’ what the tree looks like. The apple came from somewhere, it did not just appear out of thin air. Where did the first apple seed come from? What we know of today as an apple tree is probably not what it originally looked like. It has evolved into what we know today.
Here's another way of looking at this, 'God created man in his image' but it has taken millions of years of evolutionary change to get man to where he actually looks the way God wants him to.
There is a lot of arrogance and egotism taking place in Caucasians thinking God is white, how can we possibly 'know'? Especially, since the oldest known human bones were found in Africa.
There is no solid proof that God did not create the universe, there has to be a starting point somewhere, but I am convinced, he did not create the universe we know today. It has evolved into what it is.
It is amazing to me to think that people actually believe that the known universe has existing as it is today for millennia, unchanged. These same people actually believe man looks the same today as he did several million years ago. This just blows my mind. They are completely ignoring the discovery of Australopithecus, 3.2 million years old, as having any link to modern man. Why have we not found ‘modern mans’ bones dated a million years old?
How do they explain this? They say it just is and go on their merry way. Ignorance is bliss but it doesn’t change the fact the Earth is not flat and that humans used to not be able to use tools or speak and think as we do today.
Update Jan 12, 2008
I felt compelled to amend this post with this latest unimaginable bit of information:
Twelve Florida school boards have passed resolutions against the imposition of evolution in the school curriculum. This, I found in a post on Florida Citizens for Science.
Several points come to mind, one being, that these school boards are advocating, by omission of the study of the non-religious field of evolution, the religious notion that God alone is the sole reason of the existence of mankind. This, as I have said before, is only theory and our publicly funded school systems cannot, by law, teach this type of theory. Does anyone remember the reason for ‘separation of church and state’? There should be a threat of loss of funding for exclusively teaching religious theory. Period.
Another point, teaching our children to be closed to any alternative in any field of study, as this action clearly does, will come back to hurt us all in the long run. This will create narrow-minded people. We already have far too many of these. The purpose of grade school is to teach basic, actual, factual, knowledge of our world, the ABC’s, writing, math, etc. The purpose of high-school is to both refine these basics and teach how to use these building blocks to think for ourselves, i.e., to become open-minded, self-motivated, creative thinkers. These twelve school boards are usurping this process to create religious fiefdoms for the purpose of misdirecting the ‘educational’ process towards their own narrow-minded, religious zealotry.
Our education system already suffers, and does much harm to our ‘future thinkers’, by not exposing them to enough alternative view-points. We certainly do not need narrow-minded individuals in a position to impose their one-sided views which runs counter to education.
Keep school administrators out of the classroom, they have already screwed up our kids enough. Leave the teaching to teachers.
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If you think evolution is proven read 'The New Introduction' to Darwin's 'Origin of Species pblished by Dent in 1959/ Prof/ W. R. Thompson writes: "I am not satisfied that Darwin proved his point or that his influence in biological circles has been beneficial."His whole 'Introduction is a scathing attack on evolution by one of the greatest biologists of the 20th century. ALL THE REAL FACTS ARE AGAINST EVILUTION!
Where does it say anywhere in the constitution that there will be "seperation of church and state"?
Perhaps reading the First Amendment will ‘refresh’ your memory.
http://www.adl.org/issue_religious_freedom/separation_cs_primer.asp
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
-- The First Amendment
The right to freedom of religion is so central to American democracy that it was enshrined in the First Amendment to the Constitution along with other fundamental rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
In order to guarantee an atmosphere of absolute religious liberty, this country's founders mandated the strict separation of church and state. Largely because of this prohibition against government regulation or endorsement of religion, diverse faiths have flourished and thrived in America since the founding of the republic. Indeed, James Madison, the father of the United States Constitution, once observed that "the [religious] devotion of the people has been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state."
Americans are still among the most religious people in the world. Yet the government plays almost no role in promoting, endorsing or funding religious institutions or religious beliefs. Free from government control -- and without government assistance -- religious values, literature, traditions and holidays permeate the lives of our citizens and, in their diverse ways, form an integral part of our national culture. By maintaining the wall separating church and state, we can guarantee the continued vitality of religion in American life.
Why are there still apes, did they miss the evolution boat? It seems to me that if there were circumstances (external and internal) that were acting upon all life forms, it would be only natural to conclude that all life forms would be in a state of progression together.
Also, since evolution is all about survival of the fittest, it is interesting to note that humanity's current, recent, greatest, much praised transition, actually goes against that principle. We pride ourselves in our cultural and moral "evolution" into accepting homosexual marriage, but fail to recognize the fact that homosexuals (left on their own) can neither reproduce nor survive.
It doesn't seem that we really know what we believe about life.
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