He has two degrees - the first in Physics, the second in theology.Moderator feel free to move this to Spirituality and Religion as I accidentally posted it in the wrong forum!
The evidence is so gapingly obviously; I find it hard to even comprehend why some of you don't believe in evolution.
Genesis is not literal for God's sake.
Although I am not religious I used to be not long ago and I can see from the Christian point(s) of view. The chaplain I talked of in "Evolution? How" when I first found this site is not a fool. In fact he is a lot wiser than most atheists I know, and although I don't agree with him in some of his theories, many of them are very valid.
Although it is highly unlikely that he came up with it himself, his idea on Genesis is as follows: the first bit of Genesis is sort of like a song or poem, with "Evening came, and morning came, the first day" being the chorus or refrain. This is also a visible pattern in the first six verses.
Making-------------------------------Filling
Verse 1------------------------------Verse 4
Day and Night-----------------------Sun, moon and stars
Verse 2 ----------------------------- Verse 5
Vault to separate the waters-------Birds and fishes
Verse 3------------------------------Verse 6
Land----------------------------------Land creatures
Now I'm sure this is pretty obvious to most of you but I will explain anyway. In verse 1 God makes the day and night. 3 verses later he fills the day and night with the sun moon and stars. The same applies to the rest. Although "filling" may not be the exact term to use it is undeniable that there is a connection between verses 1, 2 and 3 and their corresponding ones 3 verses afterwards.
Next: Adam and Eve.
(If he exists) God was not, and is not sexist. The translators of the Bible were. Studies have been done to try to more accurately translate the Bible from Hebrew. The original translators weren't very precise as is made obviously by the changing names of God and various characters from verse to verse. Example: in Genesis 1 and 2, God is refered to as simply God. In chapter 3 he is referred to as the Lord God, and in Genesis 4 he is referred to as the Lord.
Anyway, in Hebrew, it pretty much said that God formed a creature from the earth (or mud). Then he split it in two. Woman did not come from man. They were one and were split. Equal. Then it goes on to tell you about how that is why when a man and woman are married they become one (again).
Now this is all he has got up to telling me about, but I will keep you informed as to what he has to say.
Your feedback is appreciated!
hehe... look mesquite... I have yet to see this evidence of evolution? Have they found a half monkey half human skull or bones yet? Anything sort of physical evidence that actually links us to those creatures? Oh yeah, I know I've asked this before but I just have to ask it again... if we "evolved" from say... gorilla's why are there still gorilla's? Doesn't "evolving" involve being evolved from one thing to something different? Therefore the original "thing" would no longer exist...
Oh wait... I know! We evolved from dinosaurs!! That's it! That's why they no longer exist!
heh...
P.S. I wasn't trying to compare anything really. I was just trying to say that when you believe (or decide beforehand) that something is a load of crap... regardless of your reasoning for thinking that... it's easy to not give any credence to it. :wink:
Hep, stop thinking of evolution as a chain where one species gradually molds into another species. If the theory of evolution ever tried to say such a thing it would be wrong because the first species would've remained as the only species if that simplistic here-to-here interpretation were correct. Evolution occurs with an ancestor species that typically branches out into several other species, which branch out into other species, and so on. (That is assuming, of course, that each set of species "on a branch" survive and keep branching.)
I will give a short example of how you could visualize the process. The example will not be 100% accurate (there are more "branches" than I will mention here) but for laymen it will work well enough. The first life forms branched out to form the groups we now call Eubacteria, Eukaryotes, and Archaea. The Eukaryotes branched out to green plants (algae at this point of time), Rhodophyta (red algae), Opisthokonts, and the Opisthokonts branches out to form the groups Microsporidia, Fungi, Choanoflaggelates, and Metazoa (animals). The Metazoa branches out to form the groups Porifera (sponges), Cnidaria (jellyfish, corals, and so on), and Bilateria (vertebrates, molluscs, and arthropods). I can keep going but I think you'll see where I was going with this example. If you're interested in a more complete look at how species have branched out, along with the thousands of peices of research to verify that it happened this way, you may find the Tree of Life Web Project interesting.
Errrr there was a time when the theory of evolution said just that. They even had a poster that showed the "process" the gorilla/monkey, whatever went through in order to "become" man. So obviously they've changed their theory. LOL Dang... That was always a show stopping question! I guess I'll have to find a new one... hehehe Just kidding. I'll look at the link when I get a chance though. Thanks. Not to poke fun at your ignorance, but how can someone who obviously has little knowledge of what evolution is even claiming to be true, honestly question whether or not evolution is true.
You don't know what the Theory of Evolution states. But you claim that "I have yet to see this evidence of evolution". If you don't know anything about evolution, then how do you know what you're seeing?
Sorry to interupt, but despite the title of this thread, we're more concentrating on the Genesis theme here. Oh, and hephzibah, we have in fact found many "half-human half-monkey" skulls. Thats what neanderthals were, and handymen, and many others. For God's sake, educate yourself, dammit.
