[amchugh]

"Ok if we evolved from apes why are they still here?"

"Or wouldn't there be all the intermediate steps still in evidence, at various places around the globe?"

Pat Boone answered your question for you, inaccurately. Some common primate ancestor diverged into several different ecological niches, gorillas, orangutangs, baboons, chimps and man. If I recall there is about ~98% compatible DNA between chimps and man.

I fail to see why the theory of evolution as it stands is incompatible with the idea of a creator. Only the biblical literalists have trouble with this.

Anyway, I'm not getting my science or theology from Pat Boone, thank you very much.

[sully777]

Anyway, I'm not getting my science or theology from Pat Boone, thank you very much.

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...And at times you struggle with an empty void? So did George Noory from Coast to Coast.

Please give Pat your heart. Please give him one more chance. He'll ply you with milk and cookies until you break.

[eleni121]

And humans share 60% of their DNA with chickens. And? Nothing is proved by that.

Darwin's proposition is that nature acts like a breeder. That all life is descended from that elusive single cell and random (not designed) mutation has led to the diversity we see in the present.

Fossil finds do not support a gradual change from one species into the next. In fact just the opposite. Fossils show sudden change, fully formed new creatures, and no evidence of any kind of subtle change.

Darwin himself doubted himself before he was turned into a god by the secularists.

[ChessExpert]

I fail to see why the theory of evolution as it stands is incompatible with the idea of a creator.

I agree.

But that doesn’t mean that Darwin’s theory of evolution is good science. There has been a lot of junk science that was/is accepted as good science. Notable names and groups: Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Rachel Carson, Kinsey, Robert Malthus, and a bunch of environmentalists to include those afraid of global warming, or, in an earlier decade, global cooling. On closer examination, I believe the same may apply to Charles Darwin. This is hard to see because we have been indoctrinated to believe in evolution. The competition of ideas has not taken place on a level playing field in high school and elsewhere for many decades.