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To: narby

I totally disagree. The more I look at nature and the complexity of it and the human body and mind, the more convinced I am of God. It is not logical to think that such variety of life could be a random happening. Randomness usually does not create order and I have not yet seen proof that God did not create the universe and everything in it. Mankind has come so far in just the past 100 years that I have serious doubts than humans have been "evolving" over millions of years. The fact that plants and animals are able to adapt in such a variety of ways definitely makes me think there must be some "intelligence" involved. It just makes sense.


295 posted on 10/21/2005 5:36:28 PM PDT by mlc9852
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To: mlc9852
Mankind has come so far in just the past 100 years that I have serious doubts than humans have been "evolving" over millions of years.

Mankind has learned a lot in the past 100 years, but really has not evolved much at all. Civilization has slowed evolution (for the time being). Clothes, for example, allow people to live much farther north, and in Antarctica, without having to adapt physically.

301 posted on 10/21/2005 5:41:24 PM PDT by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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To: mlc9852
It is not logical to think that such variety of life could be a random happening.

Evolution is not "random". This is your fundamental misunderstanding that stands in your path. Snow flakes are "random" from each other, but still follow a pattern. Water molecules are "random" in liquid state, yet form perfect mirrors in calm puddles following a pattern. Ice crystals line up molecules in long orderly chains that completely defy "randomness".

The underlying biology that drives evolution is not "random" in any sense of the word. That's why it works. But still it is not "predictable" any more than you can predict the shape of the next snow flake you examine. But when you see that six sided flake, you can identify it as a water ice snowflake because it follows the rules of snowflake theory. Likewise, we can examine the common virus DNA sequences in apes and humans, and determine that the pattern they make follows evolution theory.

You should join a great many other faithful people and rejoice at God's grand invention of evolutionary biology. By far the greatest invention in the universe, and yet you don't seem to grasp that God is capable of doing it because of your simplistic interpretation of Genesis. Sad.

366 posted on 10/23/2005 8:01:08 AM PDT by narby (Hillary! The Wicked Witch of the Left)
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To: mlc9852
The fact that plants and animals are able to adapt in such a variety of ways definitely makes me think there must be some "intelligence" involved.

You do know that ID agrees that man evolved from simple evolutions and that we should teach the children that God may be dead.

379 posted on 10/23/2005 2:04:22 PM PDT by WildTurkey (My Bad)
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