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To: Ready2go

OK, fair enough, "dragons" is open to interpretation - let me try another tack, using good old common sense:

If we're all descended from one father / mother, why do we all look different?

I mean our planet's various races have different skin color, different facial features, different hair characteristics - how did that happen? Doesn't evolution perfectly and logically explain such a variety?


29 posted on 11/05/2005 9:48:27 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative
I mean our planet's various races have different skin color, different facial features, different hair characteristics - how did that happen?

Those "classic" racial traits are adaptations to local environmental conditions. They have little to do with descent. Descent can be tracked by DNA, fingerprint patterns, etc.

31 posted on 11/05/2005 10:02:46 AM PST by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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To: canuck_conservative

"If we're all descended from one father / mother, why do we all look different? I mean our planet's various races have different skin color, different facial features, different hair characteristics - how did that happen? Doesn't evolution perfectly and logically explain such a variety?"

Well IMHO...I'd say God explains it much better.

Each one of us is created as special unique person.

Of all the 5 Billion + folks alive today (except for identical twins....triplets & ect.) All look a little different. Yet we all have two eyes...two ears...a mouth...and nose. (With the exception of those born with a birth defect).

We all have a different DNA...each one of us have our own fingerprint...foot print...eye print.

Whats the chances of that happening by happenstance?

And God told us why he scattered us around.

The Tower of Babel
Genesis 11

1 At one time the whole world spoke a single language and used the same words.

2 As the people migrated eastward, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there.

3 They began to talk about ***construction projects***. “Come,” they said, “let’s make great piles of burnt brick and collect natural asphalt to use as mortar.

4 Let’s build a great city with a tower that reaches to the skies—a monument to our greatness! This will bring us together and keep us from scattering all over the world.”

5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.

6 “Look!” he said. “If they can accomplish this when they have just begun to take advantage of their common language and political unity, just think of what they will do later. Nothing will be impossible for them!

7 Come, let’s go down and give them different languages. Then they won’t be able to understand each other.”

8 In that way, the LORD scattered them all over the earth; and that ended the building of the city.

9 That is why the city was called Babel, because it was there that the LORD confused the people by giving them many languages, thus scattering them across the earth.

We've been brainwashed so badly over the years we picture our forfathers as cavemen, but that isn't so.

Gen 4
17 Then Cain’s wife became pregnant and gave birth to a son, and they named him Enoch. When Cain founded a ***city***, he named it Enoch after his son.

18 Enoch was the father of£ Irad.
Irad was the father of Mehujael.
Mehujael was the father of Methushael.
Methushael was the father of Lamech.

19 Lamech married two women—Adah and Zillah.

20 Adah gave birth to a baby named Jabal. He became the first of the ***herdsmen*** who live in tents.

21 His brother’s name was Jubal, the first ***musician—the inventor of the harp and flute***.

22 To Lamech’s other wife, Zillah, was born Tubal-cain. He was the ***first to work with metal, forging instruments of bronze and iron***. Tubal-cain had a sister named Naamah.


35 posted on 11/05/2005 10:13:45 AM PST by Ready2go (Isa 5:20 Destruction is certain for those who say that evil is good and good is evil;)
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