Posted on 05/06/2024 8:22:32 PM PDT by kawhill
Of Homo sapiens, Darwin made only a passing mention on the third-to-last page of the tome, noting coyly that "light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." That's it. That is all he wrote about the dawning of the single most consequential species on the planet.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
You are free to believe anything you want. That is a quality of how you were created.
Believing in "evolution" does not mean that you are lost. Not believing in the finished work of Jesus Christ does.
So then it comes down to this: Where do you draw the line between what God says here versus what God says there?
Coming up with homo sapiens in that period of time would be like throwing all the orchestra instruments off the Empire State building and having it sound like the Beethoven 5th Symphony, when it hits the ground.
If the eye came about through natural selection, why don’t trees have eyes?
Human evolution relies on susceptibility to digestively-introduced viruses to accelerate evolution. Our closest relatives changed very little in the 3 million years since we diverged. Thank agriculture and the agricultural communities which it created.
Yes! But what is time?
The theory, as proposed by Darwin is untenable, even for the objective agnostic, much less the God fearing Christian. Do you have a non Darwinian theory of evolution on which you hang your believer’s hat?
Did time precede God and matter?
I guess I can understand how someone who never believed can come to belief through an intellectual process; but it isn’t something to which I can really relate.
Belief in a Creator God/First Cause has just always been with me.
I don’t believe Darwin was some kind of infallible scientific ‘god’. Even he sensed that his own theory was incomplete. But I think he sensed something going on and attempted to put that sense into a theory.
Unless one takes Darwin’s evolution as absolute truth just as it stands, I don’t find it incompatible with belief in God.
I don’t really know what God might say; all I have of His ‘saying’ is ‘through a glass darkly’ - filtered through the minds of the human beings who wrote it all down.
(I’m not concerned about being ‘lost’, in this conversation. I’m discussing God and the idea of evolution.)
Has anyone ever come up with a real explanation of ‘instinct’?
I’ve seen definitions of what instinct Is and Does - they’re largely descriptive; but none that satisfactorily explains HOW.
I don’t believe that God thinks like humans do, though a lot of our religions seem to assume so.
And I don’t see where a theory of evolution ‘disproves’ the existence of a Supreme Intelligent First Cause. That is just something that materialistic scientists have assumed and tried to force into Truth.
Ants or Man?
Ants.
The answer is yes.
They’re super-duper complex, too.
Hmmm
>the Creator gave the human species dominion over everything here.
And also gave him free will.<
I read this as..
The Creator of HUMAN species dominion OVER EVERYTHING here.
and also gave HIM free will.
What fascinates me most is how they communicate. I’ve seen that in action.
Bees communicate, too. Just *thinking* about all this is ‘staggering’.
But I’m not sure any of it measures up to the mystery of the human mind.
“ But I’m not sure any of it measures up to the mystery of the human mind.”
Both are “staggering.”
I’m addressing the poor quality of current writing in Scientific American.
It was not a staggering article.
I guess it’s not important. One would have to believe in human evolution in the first place, to find it ‘staggeringly complex’ or otherwise.
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