Genesis omission - did we mate with other species?
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Read Genesis AGAIN. It is written that he made THEM Male and Female in his image.Verse 27:God created human beings making them to be like himself. He created them male and female blessed them...."
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Not at all.  The Bible is a chronicle of God's interactions with us.  It is entirely possible (and I think) probable that God created other worlds with different species on it.  \n\nAlthough, I must add, that I personally believe that the laws of physics that trap us here in our own little shell are a protection of the unfallen planets, from the fallen planets...so I believe that any species that could reach us, would probably be fallen as well, adn thus I'm fairly sure that we would NOT want to meet a fallen species who  attained such high tenchonological levels that they could blow us all up 2000 times better than we can blow each other up.
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"Good question" I wander why they all don't evolve . If Darwin is correct, why did only a few evolve. Could be the Touch of God that cause certain Animals and people to evolve. Notice there are still a few Neanderthals out there. Very primitive, Think it has to do with Gods Anointing.
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We all had a common ancestor.  It just so happens that apes evolved differently to suit their environment than humans; we didn't evolve from each other, just divergently from our ancestor
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Even if you are a beliver of creationism (god created the Earth) it does not exclude the possibilty that modern races evolved from the two first humans (adam and eve).  It is true that certain distiguishing features arise from populations centered in different climate zones.  Human populations origionating from northern Europe and Asia have much lighter pigmented skin than those from closer to the equator.  However, there are unexplained reasons as to why southeast Asians developed differently from the populations of Africa.  Either way all human population origionates in northeastern Africa and the Middle East and fans out from there.  As humans began to settle in different corners of the Earth, They became cut off from each other and did not meet until their features were clearly different from one another.
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Oh no, not this question again. Why doesn't anybody use the Search button?\nLet me address two separate issues (the first part is modified from another answer):\n1) The pattern of evolutionary processes that can be seen (in the fossil record and living species)can be of two types: \nIn _anagenetic_ (meaning "that generate upward movement") events, an entire population evolves in one direction and becomes so different that at some point the people who study it give it a different name. This is encountered in paleontological research and the decision to separate one from the other is ultimately arbitrary. \n_Cladogenetic_ (meaning "that generates branches") events entail a population that splits into different sub-groups; each of these then evolves independently from the others. We share A COMMON ANCESTOR with living apes, but we have not evolved from them directly. \nOur direct ancestors are fossil hominid species. \nAll the species that are living today have their separate evolution and history; also they all (including humans) share common ancestors from which they (we) have inherited our common traits. And apes have their own ancestors that are closer to them than to Homo sapiens; the fact that apes are our closest living relatives does not exclude the existence of more related _extinct_ relatives.\n\n2) What you're stating is one of the arguments that many creationist use, namely, that change within a species (adaptation, i.e. microevolution) is possible (they are astute in not denying this, because the proofs are overwhelming!), but a species cannot transform into another (macroevolution). \nThis is based on a mistaken concept of "species". Most people think in terms of the biological species concept, which is based on reproductive isolation. That is, individuals of each species cannot hybridize succesfully with individuals of other species. However, there is not a single path for the rise of the mechanisms for recognition or isolation that we perceive as the "real boundaries" of a species (see second link for an interesting discussion here at Y!Answers). What the taxonomist calls a species may respond to different species concepts (such as morphological, evolutionary, biological (isolation), paleontological, recognition, etc,), and there are many examples of populations in which speciation (total isolation) is on the way, and there's a thin line between "subspecies" or "geographical races" and valid species (just ask an expert in systematics, which I am not). \nEvolutionary processes are long-term phenomena, and it may seem that there are "evolutionary leaps" from one species to the other. But although there are particular cases of "instantaneous speciation", most of the "leaps" are due to the fragmentary nature of the fossil record. So many populations become extinct or become something else and their former existence is not recorded anywhere! But although the record is fragmentary, life is continuous.\n\nSorry for the lengthy answer, I hope you find it useful.
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I don't really back this alien idea as most of our genes and DNA matches up with other animals etc on the planet so is that to say that aliens created everything?\n\nIf you mean did aliens just create humans then how can we explain all these matches with the existing life on Earth?
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Relationship to other primates had been suspected for years before Darwin   (1840's)-- simple observation.  Now with the deciphering of the geome for both chimps, and humans, relationship has been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt.  We are all so similar even back to fish ---a central body with 5 protrusions -- head and 4 limbs.  I don't know it all, lady, but taught science and math for years, read Discover Magazine, Scientific American, and watch the Science channel.   Fascinating.... Evolution is no longer a theory, but a fact, a lovely fact.  Our medical research on rats, dogs, and other critters would be worthless if evolution were not..   Helpful?  The question is toooo complicated to fully explain.  But you can start by reading scientific journals....   Good luck  Life is a life-long learning process.....  and god has nothing to do with it.  Critters survived, and evolved.  If a gene were detrimental, the critter carrying it didn't live long enough to procreate.  It the mutated gene was beneficial, it aided in that critter to live long enough to reproduce.  Lots of evolution is even occuring today.  Google things like Darwin's Finches, pigmy elephants, and of course dinasaurs.  \n\nOne quick interesting thing about moths in England to illustrate evolution:  In the early 1600's, before the Industrial Revolution began and coal producing smoke was a fact of life, a particular moth was mostly white, and blended into the tree bark on which it laid its eggs. The tree bark was white. Occasionally a grey-black one was hatched, but never lived very long -- birds got it.  As the Industrial Revolution took off in England, producing black soot, that black soot began to cover the trees' bark.  In less than 150 years, the white variety was gone, and there existed only the darker mutant.  Beginning in 1950 when England passed anti air pollution laws, those trees began loosing the soot off of the tree bark.  Yup, you guessed it..... the white variant is now dominant........ evolution in action  ,,,,,Helpful????
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Look at Genesis again.\n\nGod created this planet and its species, including homo sapiens, over 5 time periods. All “creatures” were created “AFTER ITS KIND” and able to “multiply” (procreate). \n\nThen in the sixth time period Adam was created “AFTER OUR IMAGE”! Adam was created BY HIMSELF! He was given “God’s spirit”. Gen. 2:7-9, 16&17. HE was created to live indefinitely within his special environment, the Garden of Eden. That’s why it was fatal for him to eat from the “tree of knowledge of good and evil”. Gen. 2:17. \n\nEve was an afterthought so Adam would not be all by himself. Gen. 2:21,22\n\nMeant to live indefinitely Adam and Eve did NOT NEED to procreate! They had no sense or ambition of sexuality. Gen. 2:25. They were not ashamed – innocent.\n\nGod gave them the power of choice, to obey his instructions or not.\n\nAfter eating the forbidden fruit – also known as the “original sin” - they were sexually “activated” (Gen. 3:7-11 & 16) (they were ashamed!)  and God had to change His plans for them. So Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden in order to KEEP THEM AWAY from the “tree of life” which could have sustained their life (and that of now possible offsprings) indefinitely - Gen. 3:22-24. \n\nThey were now condemned to live their life in the outside world and procreate like the “creatures” (Neanderthals & Co.) created before them. (Gen. 3:16) They now also were destined to die like them.\n\nHowever, they (the dscendents of Adam) lived much longer due to their speciel origin and the climate before the flood. The oldest ever, Methusalah, died in (the year of) the flood! Then the livespan decreased sharply.
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Im astonished that people actually think that humans CAME FROM monkeys or apes. we didnt come from either of them, we just are in the same family, like dogs are related to wolves. We actually came from a much larger primate than a freakin monkey. we are of the same family as them but no we did not come from them. and why do people relate the evolution thing to whether there is a god or not? i dont get that at all, all it proves is that humans as we know them werent the first on earth, who knows... maybe adam and eve were cavemen.
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I agree with mr mister.No one is ignoring the OT. Evolution is man made ignorance.
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There is no mention of any other world, human or extra-terrestrial, in the bible.\nSo, if there is other life, God didn't inform us about it.  In other words, no one knows.\nI happen to believe that we're all there is.  But, I guess I'll find out for sure when I die.\n\n\n***update,\nCan you find that scripture?  I'd be interested in seeing it.\n\n\n***update**\nUnfortunately my concordance is packed away (I just moved) and I can't look the word up.  I'd be willing to bet that it's talking about the other planets.  It still doesn't specify that there is alien life or other people on other planets.\nIt could be that there is...I don't know and no one does for sure.  I just don't think so.\nNotice that the verse talks about things that are seen are not made from things that do appear.  In other words, what we see was not made from what exists naturally.  VERY interesting because it is a direct verse that says evolution is false.  It is talking about looking at the creation and realizing that God had to create it because it would be absurd to think this all created itself.\n\nGoing back to things that are seen.  I would say that this verse is only talking about the planets in our solar system.  We see those and they are other worlds.  However, there's no life on any of them.  Only earth can sustain life.
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Good question.......I asked how did Adam and Eve have two sons and carry on the human race. Was it incest? i have no idea.\n\nWe have this idea that Adam and Eve were white (seen in pictures) but who really knows what race they were or if they truly existed. I was told that the bible is theory and it is symbolic not to be  taken literal. So take it for the "story" book it is.
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12 March 2002\n\nPOINTS OF ORIGINS: Variety is the Spice of Life\nby Dr. Glenn Jackson\n\nAmong modern environmentalists the term "species diversity" is a real keyword. Having lots of different species is considered good for the environment. But having all these species makes it hard to classify them all. When you start to talk about all of the extinct species too -- well, it gets pretty crowded. Most evolutionists are fond of pointing out that 95% (some even say 99%) of all species that have ever lived, are now extinct. Let me suggest a thought that may never have occurred to you before. Maybe most of these were just species that didn't make it to survive much beyond the year of Noah's Flood. Maybe all these "weird" prehistoric life forms only look weird to us because we're just not used to them anymore. There is mounting evidence that the ancient world had many more species -- but all living at the same time! -- not all living in vastly different times like the Paleozoic and Jurassic, etc. One entomologist (insect-studier) from Univ of Kansas says, "I never expected to find this staggering array of diversity. It blew me away." Dr. Engel is an expert on bees (Science News, 2/10/01, p87). A newer DNA study has found that crabs "must have evolved at least five different times." (Science News, 3/2/02) Now it's impossible enough to believe that crabs evolved even once -- let alone five times! Bat DNA seems to indicate that echo-location must have "evolved" in bats at least two times -- maybe three. This conclusion even has the evolutionists going batty! I'm serious. This has been driving them nuts. How could sonar have evolved twice? It's so far-fetched to believe that it could have even evolved once! To make matters worse, fossil species are now so many, that the names are getting all confused (Knoxville-News Sentinel, 2/4/02, pE14). I believe that the richness of the Earth's many species of living things today -- is nowhere near what it was before the Great Flood. That would explain why we see fossils of all these "weird" creatures trapped in the rocks left by the debris from the Flood. With all those extra life forms, there were plenty for evolutionists to choose from, while they were looking for all of their "missing links." Well, since they have started to double-check on all of those links, by using DNA, they have found that their best examples really weren't links at all -- but totally separate created kinds, just like the Genesis account predicts. If the scientists would only begin to do their investigations based on the assumption that creation is true and not evolution -- I'd bet that they'd reach their conclusions a lot faster, and things wouldn't be so confusing but would all begin to make perfect sense. Well, "thinking themselves wise they became fools." You keep thinking. \n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nDr. Glenn Jackson holds four degrees in science and education from George Mason University and University of Virginia. He has taught elementary through college level sciences for over twenty years and in four states. He is a lifetime member of both American Mensa and the Creation Research Society.
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evolution. Or perhaps speciation.
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Errr, not really.\n\nYou must also understand that evolution in no way says anything about the origins of life.  That's a whole other subject ;).
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Hello Sir, \nIt is nice to see people from all over the world asking questions, there is a greag book called The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes. It is a book that uses DNA dating to date almost all European humans back to Seven women. I believe evolution is a valid theory that has plenty of proof.