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To: Physicist

I would say I believe God created humans as humans.


84 posted on 11/18/2005 8:41:12 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: mlc9852
I would say I believe God created humans as humans.

But what about those previous, almost-human creatures? Would they be human, or not human? Did God breathe life into a remarkably chimp-like human, which "begat" over time, changing to look like us along the way? Or did the ape-descended hominids evolve up to a certain point and die out, after which God fashioned a nearly identical creature out of clay?

Once you accept the skulls, you have to accept the gradual evolution of the hominids. But how do you set us apart from that chain? Are those the skulls of our ancestors, or not? What are those things, anyway?

86 posted on 11/18/2005 9:01:19 AM PST by Physicist
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To: mlc9852; Physicist
I would say I believe God created humans as humans.

Except here is the rub. A scientific theory can be modified by data points when they no longer fit within the framework of that model. So I am certainly open to "junk" evolution should evidence (real, verifiable, peer reviewed) come along that is at odds with the evolutionary model. Religion on the other hand (being set down by God) has no checks and balances. Our notions of God are completely subjective as apposed to objective. So with that in mind, do you wonder that all of us (living in a solipsistic universe) have our own ideas of what God is? How then can you use "God" to define or help define the observed models we create to describe this physical universe?

So back to belief. Does your belief in the Bible allow you to rewrite or junk the parts of it that are shown to be no longer true as we continue to increase our collective knowledge as a species? Science works just that way. We junk or modify old theories and models as we discover new information that requires us to re-evaluate those models.

94 posted on 11/18/2005 9:54:02 AM PST by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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