out of a ball of mud, than to have evolved?  How does that make more sense?
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I would say that a Creator would be insulting.  For one, (S)He invented the insult.  For another thing, (S)He made life so very miserable.  As the Monty Python song goes:\n\n"All things dull and ugly,\nAll creatures short and squat,\nAll things rude and nasty,\nThe Lord God made the lot.\n\nEach little snake that poisons,\nEach little wasp that stings,\nHe made their brutish venom.\nHe made their horrid wings.\n\nAll things sick and cancerous,\nAll evil great and small,\nAll things foul and dangerous,\nThe Lord God made them all.\n\nEach nasty little hornet,\nEach beastly little squid--\nWho made the spikey urchin?\nWho made the sharks? He did!\n\nAll things scabbed and ulcerous,\nAll pox both great and small,\nPutrid, foul and gangrenous,\nThe Lord God made them all.\n\nAmen." \n\nAnd if monotheism is right, God made the devil too.
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It's not entirely believable that we evolved from apes. If you have ever actually looked into the question you would know that animals do evolve. I'm a Christian and still don't refute the facts that "survival of the fittest" is an actual scientific process. People don't evolve from ants because they have an entirely different make-up than people. Ants have an exo-skeleton while mammals do not. One good example of things evolving are moths. During the industrial revolution in Europe many objects (trees) became covered with a light soot. The moths used to be able to camoflauge themselves on tress but couldn't anymore because of the soot on the trees. Survival of the fittest was demonstrated because all of the darker moths that blended in with the trees were not eaten by preadtors. When these dark colored moths began surviving they reproduced and their offspring were well-suited to their environment due to their dark color. Evolution can not be denied. How can you explain how some animals must be "2 sexes" so that they can ensure their population can continue? It's obvious that at one time those types of animals were either male or female and had to "evolve" to survive. The whole theory behind evolution is: "Those that are best-suited to their environment will survive." Maybe not all monkeys had problems with predators as others did, which means they had no reason to evolve. Darwin broke-it down very easily and demonstarted a gradual change that developed us into humans.
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Darwin never "withdrew" his theory, nice try.\n\nYou're right there were lots of storms and meteorites.  For all we know, life needed a couple of tries to get started.\n\nJust the fact that you are asking whether we came from monkeys or from goo, shows that you either have NO idea what evolution is about or are just trying to get a rise out of people.  You bore me.
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Evolution is, to put it simply, widely misunderstood.
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you are right.  evolution is a statistical imposibility\n\nthe odds of even one species evolving like the bat for instance.  with allits specialized functions and abilities....   its like a tornado hitting a junkyard and assembling a fully functional Boeing 747.  and thats just one species.  also i like it when you confront athiests and agnostics with hard fact PROOVING evolution CANNOT HAVE HAPPENED.  like this.\n\nthe earths rotation is slowing.  this is a measured, proven, scientific, fact.  If you were to rewind time adding as you go back the ammount of speed lost. you would find that as little as 1 mil years ago. the earth would be spinning so fast that the centripital force would cause everything to be flung off into space.  \n\nthats just one way and there are many other ways to disprove evolution.  oddly enough whenever you tell these things to an evolutionist and or athiest/agnostic.  they just kind of stand there with a not so bright look on thier face...
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We know that evolution exists. Science can prove it. We also know that modern man was created by God, the Bible proves that! So what about all those creatures that existed on the Earth for hundreds of thousands of years? Of course they evolved. And some of them very much resemble modern man. But God said He created us in His image. Maybe not necessarily physically, God doesn't have a body! But the difference between us and those creatures is indeed that "missing link" that cannot be "found". The link is God. The difference is that we (modern man) were created with a free will. No other creatures have ever had that. \n\nIf you read Genesis 1:1 you see that God created the heaven and earth. But something very drastic happened probably over a very long period of time between verse one and two because we see in verse two that the earth was without form, and void...\nNow what does God create that is without form and void? Nothing! Everything God creates is perfect.\nSo what happened and how many years passed between verse one and verse two? Science tells us that, there's no mystery. Creatures of all kinds evolved, the popular idea is something hit the earth and tilted it on it's axis. That triggered all kinds of weather changes, ice ages countered by global warming (without benefit of fossil fuels I might add), dinosaurs lived and died off. Primitive man-like creatures became dominant. It's all there!\n\nSo yes, you can believe in God and understand that creatures indeed evolved. But modern man, with all of his uniqueness, was created by God.\n\nNow concerning your lack of passion for your faith... read Acts Chapter 2 in the New Testament a couple of times and see if that piques your interest. I'll guarantee you have never been taught that in the catholic church. You need to ask yourself why. It is clear by the scriptures that Jesus intends that everyone with a love for the truth receive the gift of the Holy Ghost just as described in Acts 2. Read it again! It still happens just that way. It's still real. I see it every week. I see the power of the Spirit being used through ordinary people like you and me. Ordinary people like Jesus and the disciples were. Jesus didn't come and die so that we would have to seek everything we needed through a priest. He came that we could boldy go directly to Him with our needs. That is scripture! You need forgiveness? You need to ask Jesus, not another man. You need compassion and love? Ask Jesus, don't ask another man. Do you want to understand exactly what He has for you in this life and the next? You need to ask Him, not some portly old fellow in a black robe. Ask God directly. Go boldly to the throne and tell Him you need to know more. You will be amazed what you will experience if you are sincere and have enough character!\n\nUpdate 5-1-06\nI read with interest one of the answers below that demonstrates exactly what is wrong with the churches today. Sure, just ask someone (other than God). And if you don't like that answer just go ask someone else. That say's two things:\n1. The "authotities" in the churches don't even agree on truth.\n2. People only are interested in what they want to hear.\n\nThat's what I meant when I said God will show you the truth if you seek it from Him with a true desire to know. Why ask another man who has no clue anyway? We are talking about something as important as the salvation of your soul. Why wouldn't you go directly to the source if the source asked, indeed pleaded with you, to do so?\nAnd Paul absolutely did not encourage people to believe whichever way was best for them. He wrote to the Ephesians in Ep. 4:5 that there is "One Lord, one faith, one baptism". You see this repeated throughout the New Testament. There are not many paths to God, there is one.  Please, read the scriptures for yourself. You do not need someone to interpret the Bible for you. Let God show you
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First of all, your argument fails because viruses are not considered living organisms.  They reproduce solely by utilizing the genetic material of whatever cell's nuclear material they've hijacked.\n\nSecondly, evolution is NOT the same as adaptation.\n\nIf you want to believe in your heart that you're descended from an ape, go right ahead, young man.  I choose to believe I'm descended from two beings, created by God Himself, who made bad decisions.\n\nPeace.
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I will have to support Evolution! Let me give you a definition of Evolution!\nBiological evolution, simply put, is descent with modification. This definition encompasses small-scale evolution (changes in gene frequency in a population from one generation to the next) and large-scale evolution (the descent of different species from a common ancestor over many generations).\nDocumentation of ancestor-descendant relationships among organisms also comes from the fields of biogeography, taxonomy, anatomy, embryology and, most recently, genetics — particularly DNA analysis.\nThe fossil record remains first and foremost among the databases that document changes in past life on Earth. Fossils provide the dimension of time to the study of life. Some of the most basic observations about fossils and the rock record were made long before Darwin formulated his theory of “descent with modification.” The fossil record clearly shows changes in life through almost any sequence of sedimentary rock layers. Successive rock layers contain different groups or assemblages of fossil species.\n{We have now more than enough fossils to determine for sure that humans didn’t appear on this planet in the genetic form they are today!\nWE HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH EVIDENCE THAT THERE WAS AT LEAST ANOTHER SPECIES WHICH LIVED WITH US!! And I am talking about Neanderthal man who was not our ancestor but a different Human than us!!! (Did God experiment with human species?) We even have proof that at a certain point in time 3 human species shared the planet! (Homo sapiens, Homo Erectus, Homo Neanderthals)}\nOf course I want comment the stupid argument why all the apes didn’t evolve to humans. Ok I will comment!!\n(We share a recent common ancestor with chimpanzees and gorillas; we have many anatomical, genetic, biochemical, and even behavioral similarities with these African great apes. We are less similar to the Asian apes--orangutans and gibbons--and even less similar to monkeys, because we share common ancestors with these groups in the more distant past. \n! By the way why God decided to create 5 different species of primates and 280 different species of monkeys?)\nAs a conclusion Evolution is not a theory but a proven fact (In scientific terms, "theory" does not mean "guess" or "hunch" as it does in everyday usage. Scientific theories are explanations of natural phenomena built up logically from testable observations and hypotheses. Biological evolution is the best scientific explanation we have for the enormous range of observations about the living world.) Creation is a Hebrew Myth and unfortunately is not a fact but a myth!!!!
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The theory evolved based on the facts that have been observed in the universe. The theory may not be correct or accurate but it does fit the facts and it is the only explanation anyone has been able to give to fit the facts.  \n\nIf you have a better one let's hear it.
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Well, if the environment of this population were to remain unchanging, then yes, why change once an optimal adaptation has been reached?\nBut environment is not unchanging!\n\nNatural selection is an evolutionary mechanism that acts "erasing the worse". This implies that there have to be differences (there is no "worse" without something "better"), which are are provided by the variations from one generation to the next. However, these variations are random and have no meaning by themselves.\nThe biological "meaning" and "value" of these differences depends on the environment: a feature that has high "adaptive value" in a given environment might have lower adaptive value once that environment changes, and other characters will be more advantageous. Some variations are just incompatible with life. \nThus, advantages, fitness and adaptations are always relative to the environment. Without inherited variations, it is not possible to respond to environmental changes. \nAnd environments, formed by the complex interaction of very many living and non-living factors, are constantly changing.
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God created evolution.   Evolution is a form of creation.\nWhy does everyone think that God always said "poof" and it was there?  His example was the potter and the clay.   There is no time frame to God.  And man did not come from monkeys.  If that were so, why are there still monkeys and apes?  Why didn't THEY evolve?  Everything else evolved.   Man was created as man.   Ape man came from the perfect man in a regression form or de-evolution.   Most don't believe the bible because they haven't read it or just don't understand it.  If you think the Bible is fake, you are betting eternity on it.   Bottom line...you are human, monkeys are animals, not ancestors.
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if the environment changes faster than the organisms ability to adapt to the changes, the species will go extinct. The reason, be it man made, or natural, is irrelevant. The point is, there is a change, and the organism cannot adapt.
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MicroEVOLUTION isn't evolution huh?\n\nWhat sort of bizzare nonsense is this? \n\nNext you'll be teling us that microeconomics isn't economics and that microsurgery isn't surgery.
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Evolution is fact.  Think about it.
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My God, I'm finally beginning to see the truth.  You have convinced me, despite all of the scientific evidence available and common sense, that evolutionists do indeed have it all wrong.\n\nWe have NOT evolved from apes.\n\nIn fact, based on the number of people who profess to believing in the exact wording the Bible gives for Creation, I now know without a shadow of a doubt that ......\n\n\n WE ARE STILL APES!\n\nI accept the invitation.  What can I bring?  I know of a great place to get apples.
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The more I learn about evolution, the more it doesn't make sense. I am a very new Christian. If you told me a year ago that creation makes more sense than evolution, I would tell you that you were crazy. No transition fossils for any animals "evolving" into another animal have ever been found. I don't deny there is a lot of changes occurring in living things over the generations–it's called variation (also called micro-evolution). For example, there are chihuahuas and there are St. Bernards.  They all have a common ancestor–-and surprise–-it's a dog.  This is what Darwin observed.  The idea of survival of the fittest does not come to a logical conclusion when the animal turns into a different animal.  \n\nThe span of time since the earth “began” keeps getting longer and longer by evolutionists' measure.  Fifty years ago, it was in the millions of years.  Now it's billions.  This keeps growing to make it fit evolution.  Since no living person has ever seen evolution take place, and evolution has never left a record to prove it exists, it needs to have happened so SLOWLY that many generations of people (since recorded history began thousands of years ago) have never witnessed it.  The more evolutionists learn, the more they have to change their estimates... because evolution is not possible with their older estimates.  \n\nThe same amount of faith is needed to believe in evolution as creation.  However, evolutionist have an advantage because it is REQUIRED to be taught in school.  The alternative theory is not even allowed to be mentioned in school.  Schools are even getting in trouble these days by pointing out that evolution is a theory and not fact.  People call evolution science, but science needs to be able to be observed and/or replicated.  Evolution can do neither of these things.  What other scientific experiment do you know that has no proof, no conclusive evidence, so many missing pieces, consistently proving itself wrong, but instead of ruling that it must be false, they change the input to make it work. If scientist did this with any other experiment, they would be laughed out of their jobs. There have been many evolution hoaxes created throughout the years so that there could be some “proof” of evolution.  Some of these were found out to be hoaxes decades ago, but are still found in science textbooks today.\n\nYes, creation has to be taken on faith because you can't prove it other than what it says in the Bible.  But evolution also has to be taken on faith because you can't prove it other than what it says in a textbook. Your choice (that is what free will is about), but I would just recommend that everyone FULLY examines both sides before concluding one is right.
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Sometimes the line between evolution and christianity is blurred. Evolution is not just the theory that we came from apes. Evolution is just the theory that all creatures can evolve over time its like is a bear is mainly living in one environment and then moves to another that is evolution. The theory that man came from apes should not be taught nor the theory that man was made by God. That way nobody is offended. But Evolution should be taught.