“You must understand how offensive the idea of being descended from chimps is to a believer in creation. We believe the we are made in the image of God. Evolutionary theory instead teaches we are descended from, like made in the image of, some sort of ape or monkey. It replaces the God of the universe with a chimp of all things. It’s just horrible for us.”
But god could design the basic blueprint of life to be able to adapt and carry information on to the next generation and slowly improve upon itself. Maybe God created DNA and gave it the occasional nudge here and there. Maybe he didn’t. I am the kind of person who requires testable results first and faith second. I am also really saddened by how much pure science has been mis-used and ignored in the whole global warming religion.
To me, science should be the kind of thing that is performed by 50’s looking guys with buddy holly type glasses in white lab coats and the occasional mad scientists type. Not tie dye T-shirt wearing philosophy majors in liberal arts collages.
As a religious person, I find the similarities between apes and humans fascinating but hardly threatening to my humanity.
God COULD do that. But since He says in His word that he did something entirely different, and that we’re made in His image, the contrast between father monkey and Father God are very dramatic.