why believe in something created in the cavemen days?
487143
they still believe in the caveman campfire stories because they don't want to open there minds to the truth. they are stuck believing because the stories were beat into there brains at an early age and cant think for themselves. and its not just the Christians, its all faith systems. you at least have an open mind thank goodness i hope you stay that way.
1145247
"No, I am not superstitious. I dont believe in that crap. Technology is just a tool created by man, nothing more. "\n\nSuperstitious???? How can something written almost 2,000 years ago be accurate today? Read Revelations Nukes, broadcasting, mark of the beast etc... are all in there. Technology is a tool created by man that will be abused by man! So my answer is absolutely this is setting the stage and the technology is just waiting to be abused by the Beast/one world order.\n\nOT
5323
They don't. The Bible was written a few million years after the disappearance of the dinosaurs by people who did not have a clue about them. The Genesis book was inspired by the Babylolian's myths of Creation. Every old civilization had its own myth of Creation. We now have mathematicians, astrophysicists, biologists, etc. to inquire these fundamental questions : «What is the history of the universe? How did life began and evolved on Earth or - maybe - elsewhere ?» Etc.
109091
i do believe and yes, they hav visited us a long time ago! think about those ancient myths, think about those super constructions back thousands yr ago...and wtf is up wit those stone figures, drawings, ...
1147943
I suppose it could be a creation of our own mind. The scientific research on those subjects don't really provide solid proof to back it up. \n\nI don't think it matters. As far as I'm concerned, believe what you want, whether it's scientific or religious, but just don't force your beliefs upon others!!
241208
Evolution is a lie perpetrated by the "man". There is no evolution or creation. Our planet is one of fourteen, "Mother Earths". We purchased our planet a millenium ago, second hand, from a planetary garage sale.\nThe reason we do not keep this in our historical record was the extreme embarrassment over the formation of the northern ice cap.\nWe were not created so much as reconstituted and microwaved until done. You know how unreliable microwaves are, that is why we have races.\nWhy do I know this? I am special, I do 36 sit ups and 15 kneebends every morning, that gives me an inside track.
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Alright “curious” since no one is biting I will…\n\nFirst, the story of Noah is mythology. The ark is a myth too, though it makes a great bedtime story. However a great flood may have happened since many ancient cultures have reported it (a worldwide flood that covered the mountain tops actually means a larger Tsunami that covered a few hills). \n\nNevertheless, in those times people were extremely primitive. They lived like animals, smelled like animals, and generally behaved like wild beasts. Then, fortunately for the human species, a bunch extraterrestrials (gods) came to earth and injected mankind with an intelligence boost. That noble act made a few a little smarter but the majority continued to act like the primitive animals they were.
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Well, I believe in the theory of evolution, not exactly Darwin's original model, since that's pretty old and has been revised (DNA, genetics, fossils, etc).\n\nAs to why some folks choose not to believe, there are several reasons I can think of :\n\n1) The idea that man evolved from a non-human creature is near unthinkable. Many people find it ludicrous that we are closely related to some big hairy beast that sits and scratches its butt at the zoo.\n\n2) We like to be in the "center", and evolution tells us that we aren't 'special', whereas religion makes humans THE important species. Kinda like why people didn't believe Galileo at first.\n\n3) Religion. If you grow up learning one thing, it's pretty hard to convince yourself otherwise.\n\n4) If evolution is indeed true, then the BIble can't be taken literally. Adam and Eve is one of the most significant stories in the Bible (as well as the Quran), if that's just a parable, what else is?\n\nProbably some other reasons as well, I can't think of any more right now. Good luck on your research, btw :)
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If you believe in God, some people don't, but it's up to you what you believe, then He made the whole world and all the animals in it and then when there was a big flood, a man called Noah had to save the animals in his ark until the flood was over.\nSome people say there was a big bang and that made lots of little things called amoebas and then they evolved, which means changed, into all the different animals.\nNobody knows for certain which one of these methods is true though.
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the bible does not mention what we know as "cavemen" per se so there is not any conflict that I can see. Adam and Eve may have been simple characters in an allegory to illustrate a point or they may have existed, but who is to know what they looked like? Maybe they looked like what we call cavemen? If God made them in his own image than perhaps he looked like cavemen. we have no way of knowing since there were no accurate artists or cameras yet. The bible leaves out any description of adam and eve so we are left to imagine. So, being the egotistical beings we are, we imagine they looked like "us", (whatever the particular "us" looks like.) Blacks imagine they were black and jews imagine they were jewish looking.  (after all, they did make up the story and should be the stars) Caucasians usually depict Adam as some sort of white boy. the spansih prefer latino looking adam and eve.\nall we really know, if we are to believe the bible, is that they were made in the image of God. yet God is unknown and unknowable so we really know nothing except he is a burning bush or a bright light. How are we in that image? You tell me. I do not believe any of it as it is unbelievable to a thinking person. the story of man's creation as told by the so-called Gnostic religion seems to be more believable. At least it makes sense. But that does not address the question asked. \nCavemen or should I say "cave persons" are probably no longer extant (so far as we know) and we may actually be something else unrelated. There is still that old missing link problem that everybody conveniently forgets to mention. there is no clear connection in time to us and the thing we call a Caveman. \nFor all we know for sure, it may have been the forebearer of the yeti (abominable snowman) and not us. \n\nthe reason the bible must be accepted on "faith" is because it is full of conjecture and fairy tales and there is no evidence to show it is fact. Faith is just another way to say "unthinking".
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the problem is that history can not be proven. science deals with the now. right now we have fossils and bones. what does this mean? that somthing lived and died not that they evolved over millions of years. if the biologists knew anything about astronomy they would realize that the earth is slowing down (hence the leap second) and if somthing is slowing down that means it used to be going faster. and if you do the math on this billions of years ago the earth was going so fast that day and night were one and nothing could stand on its surface.\n\nlets think for ourselves and not let the government or our textbooks tell us what to beleive \ngalleleo along with almost every other inventor would have never made there discoverys had it not been for there mistrust of textbooks.
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In prehistoric times, children so loved their parents that when the parents passed away, the children plastered their corpses with lime and began to pray to their ancestors. They stood these human totem poles in the center of the cave and danced around them hoping that their parent's love would reach out and touch them just as the spirit of the animal totem they hunted and ate would grant them the strength of the animal. They painted the animal totems on the walls of their caves. See the Lascaux cave paintings in France. Similar art appeared in other lands. Then came the ice age 20,000 years ago which ended 12,500 years ago.\n\nAfter the ice age ended, and the floods came and agriculture took hold, people began farming around 11,000 years ago and built "god houses" to house the clay and lime plastered corpses of their relatives. Some societies ate soft morsels of their beloved ones to gain their strength, (such as in New Guinea highlands) while other cultures made statues out of their parent's or grandparent's bodies to keep them around so they could talk to them. \n\nBy the end of the neolithic era about 5,500 years ago, the idea of a spirit in the body was said to dwell in the trees, and people prayed to trees. Finally, people began to fashion idols and animals or 'venus' fertility figures out of clay and fire the clay. Women were worshipped because only they could be factories for producing men who could hunt in teams and bring down the mammoths. Women were highly valued during the ice age from producing children. Men who were alpha types instead of team workers were banned from the settlements. People began to tattoo the energy meridian lines as in acupuncture, about 5,000 years ago. Spirit, then became something within the energy of the body as well as dwelling without in the fertility goddesses who brought the cycles of the harvest and new children.\n\nAbout 14,000 years ago, instead of their parent's corpses inside the clay, just the art work/sculpture remained of these idols--people, venuses, fertility goddesses with huge mammaries to feed the world, and other sculpture appeared as cults, such as the clan of the cave bear and the cat cult.\n\nBy 9,000 years ago, the idol then went inside the god house to protect it--in the center of the village. That's how people began to pray to idols. Finally the spirit dwelling in the idol was released by smashing the idol or opening it's mouth to speak.\n\nBy the time of Abraham in the Hebrew year 5756 years ago, Sumerian shops for making ceramic idols evolved into the art of smashing the idol to let the spirit free. Then monotheism occurred to those contemplating the invisible God. By 4,000 years ago people eventually realized the spirit isn't in the man-made idol after all, it's in heaven and is too omnipotent to be knowable, but has created all, just as your parents created you from stardust. In Egypt, one pharoah prayed to the sun disk. In the deserts, the monotheists wandered, led by Cohanic priests who prayed to Yahweh, the one invisible, unknowable God....and suddenly, worship of female venuses and female reproduction cycles was not fashionable any more, and a patriarch male God took the woman's place in the God house in the middle of the village. From then on, societies were divided into pagan worshippers of female goddesses such a the cat cult in Egypt and the cult of mammary gland-clad female deities, such as Astarte in Greece/Anatolia. \n\nThe competition was on, and by the close of the classical period, God was male and sacrificed his only son, Jesus just as Abrahim almost sacrificed his Isaac, but let Ishmael wander in the desert with his slave mom...So the moral of the story is male patriarchs kick to the curb the female...After all, God didn't give his only daughter...The female venus statue was hammered to gravel, and the male God reigned in the patriarchy. \n\nThe female cat cult ended...by men's dogged
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Actually, all that stuff is too confusing for the average Joe to consider. I think it actually takes more faith to believe all that stuff than it does to believe in creation. Of course, that's just MY take on the whole matter. It's almost like believing a junk yard blew up one day, then came back together to form a cadillac. It's just too much to believe for me. <*)))><
1109759
it makes perfect sense.  Man needed a way to explain the world back when we were primitive, but God's obsolete at this point in techonogical sophistication.
1164641
By God of course.  Every other belief is just a theory withouth any proof.  The proof that we were created by God is not only the Bible but everything around us.  It makes no sense to believe in evolution, because why has evolution taken a break for a very long time? Huh!  Charles Darwin was a scumbag, I bet he got hit with that evolutionary rock multiple times.
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I read your question.  I believe in the Bible it is how I live my life or at least try to : ).  I still don't understand why I MUST believe in fire-breathing dragons, Loch Ness monster, flying serpents and whatever else you listed.  Of course I don't believe in them.
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These are two good reasons for believing in evolution instead of these silly notions. We come from earlier life, through the familiar process of selection, reproduction, and variation. That earlier life comes from even earlier life. At some point in the distant past there was some primitive first life. It came from inorganic matter. \n\nWhere that matter came from is not clear, but we're making progress on understanding that. The leading contender, I believe, is that it DID simply pop into existence. I think that someday we may even understand how that is possible, but I'm confident that no-one today understands it.