Glenn Beck: What if God made us from monkeys?

WND ^ | October 19, 2010 | Joe Kovacs

[RobinMasters]

Were human beings created by God in an instant, or over millions of years through evolution?

Glenn Beck addressed the question on his radio show today as he came to the defense of Christine O'Donnell, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Delaware under fire for challenging evolution.

"Did evolution just stop?" Beck asked rhetorically. "I haven't seen the half-monkey/half-person yet. ... There's no other species that's developing into half-people."

"I don't know how God creates. I don't know how we got here," he continued, wondering what God might tell him after he dies. "If God's like, 'Yup, you were a monkey once,' I'll be shocked, but I'll be cool with it."

Beck explained, "If God didn't create, if things evolve, then your rights evolve. You're not endowed by your Creator.

"Just like you go from a monkey to a man, you go from simple rights to higher rights and somebody has to take those rights and give them to you and take them away or change them. This is again the evolutionary thinking of progressivism."

[OneWingedShark]

>I’m not sure we stopped evolving. We are 4-6 inches taller than our counterparts from the early 1900’s.

Which has been credited to the increase of nutrition [including reducing deficiencies], especially in the childhood years, in the people’s diet.
Also, two of my little brothers are taller than I, does that mean they are more evolved? — I *really* don’t think that height is proof of evolution.

[Raider Sam]

To Big-Bangers, I would ask - what created the stuff that banged?

[Raider Sam]

Actually, every theory is unproven. The problem with Evolution proponents is they are not staying true to the scientific method. If the theory is that humans evolved from apes, then scientists should look for 1 example of it being false.

It is impossible to test every example with every variable, which is why scientists dont set out to prove a theory. If we find 1 example of a human not evolving from apes, then the theory will be disproved.

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[xzins]

WND picked a terrible title for this article.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

"If God didn't create, if things evolve, then your rights evolve. You're not endowed by your Creator. Just like you go from a monkey to a man, you go from simple rights to higher rights and..."

Arrrrrgh. Please Mr. Beck, stick with your regular calling. If things evolve, God created evolution too, and He could have made it all at once, since He made time itself. We're all curious but it really doesn't matter HOW He did it. He could've done it any number of ways. Your if-whens can't touch that.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

God’s real and if He wanted to He could make a whole different universe for each and every one of us. And for each and every monkey too.
He’s infinite. Nuff said!

[guitarplayer1953]

I do not belive that God looks like a moneky.

[bert]

Hey glen.....
This is your ass
This is hole in the ground

[SuzyQue]

Bookmark.

[wendy1946]

Were human beings created by God in an instant, or over millions of years through evolution?

I'll say it again: God does not use broken tools.

[bigheadfred]

What if God made us from monkeys?

We would ALL be sittin' on the front porch collectin' welfare.

[csense]

I believe Scripture. I’ve asked that question before to those that subscribe to Theistic Evolution. I’ve never received a satisfactory answer.

[Salamander]

I was turned into a newt.

Obviously, I didn’t get better.

[Semper Mark]

"I was turned into a newt.

Obviously, I didn’t get better."

Obviously.

[Salamander]

No....I got omnipotent, instead....:-P

[Semper Mark]

"No....I got omnipotent, instead.....:-P"

Well cheer up, I know of an ointment that'll clear that right up.....;^P

[gleeaikin]

"Like Beck said, how come we stopped evolving?" If evolution doesn't happen, how come we need a new flu vaccine every year? If evolution doesn't happen, how come bacteria are now resistant to almost all types of penicillin, to the point we are in very real danger of "super bug" forms of e coli and strep? Furthermore, if evolution did not exist, there would not have been the "white" mutation that allowed African humans to move north and supercede the Neanderthals 30 or 40,000 years ago. Nor the lactose tolerance mutation that allowed middle easterners to move into central Europe with their cows and highly nutritious milk and suplant the non lactose tolerant population that was there before 6 to 9,000 years ago. Furthermore, if Mr. Beck doesn't know it is because he hasn't looked. Just like I don't know Swahili, because I have never studied it. Doesn't mean that Swahili doesn't exist. A very interesting book that illustrates evolution in action, not over thousands of years, and not in microscopic organisms, is "The Beak of the Finch" by Jonathan Weiner. He has been doing detailed population studies of various finch (bird) populations over a 20 or 30 year period and documenting active evolution among them.

[gleeaikin]

“God says he made man from slime.” Where did the “slime” come from, I thought it was earth or mud. Also which of the two versions of creation told in the Bible is correct. The one where he formed man and woman from earth (implying they are equal), or the one where he took woman out of man’s rib (implying the man is superior)?

[ZULU]

Millions of years are an instant to God, and no evolutionist I know of ever said man evolved from a monkey.

I support O’Donnell even if I disagree with her on issues like evolution.

Beck is either dead-on when it comes to an issue or in total left field. There is no in between.