Ok, can you share with me the evidence you have been presented with to cause your conclusion that we are a product of evolution. I am being forthright here and am not as informed as many on this subject and therefore would like to know what to look for in regards to supporting the theory of evolution.
My objectiveness is honest. I am not a creationist, I don't believe in God (yes, I am an atheist), but I have read some articles that have made disputing claims to evolution. The primary article I read about ten years ago in Discover magazine. I apologize that I can't remember the author's name, but the article's topic was Chaos theory.
The author, acording to the article, is a leading researcher on the topic of chaos theory and at the time of the writing had somewhere near thirty years of experience under his belt. His conclusion, after decades of research, was that using the principles of chaos theory it is impossible for life to simply spontaneously spring from nothing. He went on to state that there "must have been intervention" and that he believes that intervention was an intelligent being.
Again, I have read some compelling articles in favor of evolution. And I have recently been informed that my understaning of Mendel's experiments on species variation is actually an understanding of macro evolution. This interests me, but does not sway my opinion that both theories are still quite ambiguous (to me).
Thank you for any constructive response or additional information you might provide.
That's a good question, but I'm afraid I have to answer it "Not this late!" That would take quite a while. I'll try to get something written up in the next few days.
I was actually six-day Creationist up through college (Christian college, officially six-day as well) when I realized that problems with the data that I thought would be addressed at the college level were in fact not. I went from six-day to a period of wild uncertainty (ID? simultaneous six-day and billions of years in some fashion? age-day?) and then settled on theistic evolution (God got the ball rolling) for a while. About six months ago I left Christianity (not over evolution, you can read the post at the end of my profile page for the basic reason why), but my move away from Creationism far pre-dated this and was for entirely different reasons. Ironically my move away from Christianity was prompted by my research into Islam and refuting it, which required a rational defense of some of the OT that I ultimately found I couldn't provide.