[CHRISTIAN DIARIST]

Whether one believes in human evolution is a metter of faith. Pro-Darwin journos, like the Times' Nick Wade, believe that ape somehow transmogrified into man. That requires at least as much faith as the belief of most Americans that man was created by God.

[jdsteel]

I have no problem with the idea that God created the universe and evolution is part of that plan. What I have a problem with is shoddy or just plain bad science that tries to use evolution to somehow prove there is no God.

[dartuser]

This is a stunning scientific turnabout in the prevailing wisdom about human evolution.

Which seems to happen a few times per year these days.

[Popman]

I have never gotten a cogent response from a Darwinian to this statement...

“when you wake up in the morning look at yourself in the mirror and you must make a decision.... The human being looking back at you came from a single cell entity from some mud hole or was created in the image of God with muscles, bone, ligaments, eyes, ears, blood, a brain that has almost unlimited capacity to invent, innovate, that loves to the point that will pay the ultimate sacrifice

[circlecity]

"Whatever DNA modern humans and Neanderthals share in common came not from interbreeding, the scientists concluded, but from a common, unknown ancestor (a chimpanzee, maybe?)."

Or maybe is just the result of a common maker and designer?

[jonno]

“How,” he asks, “can such willful ignorance thrive in today’s seas of knowledge?”

Seems to me that this can be applied to either side of the argument.

The difference is, that while we are all "ignorant" when it comes to origins, at least those coming from the Christian perspective (or even ID) admit that their position requires a modicum of faith.

No such admission from evos (in my experience...).

[allmendream]

If the first group of “Darwinists” was wrong - it logically follows that this second group of “Darwinists” must be correct.

The fact that science changes based upon new evidence is only proffered up as a weakness of the scientific method by idiots who don’t understand the way science works and why it is useful.

[HeadOn]

Horses and donkeys produce mules. Mules do not reproduce, but they are useful animals and men keep breeding them. Let’s imagine that, thousands of years from now, no one remembers how mules were made, and all the records were lost from our glorious technological age.

Mules appear to have been around for quite a while, and then, for some reason, disappeared.... Will scientists of that time say that mules look to be the common ancestor of horses and donkeys in the evolutionary chain?

I’m just wondering if Neanderthals were “mules” of a sort. I know, I know. It’s a stretch, but I’ve always wondered if man and apes got together at some point.

“When all logical possibilities have been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how illogical, must be the truth.” - Spock

I hate to light a fire and run, but I’m going on vacation in an hour - gotta go.

[thouworm]

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Neanderthal and Human Matings Get a Date