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Now, now... All I did was change a few words in your post. If you think that I was making flagrant, absolute, "you-can't-be-right", statements, you need to back off a little bit and put your own words back in the post.

Sorry to ruffle your feathers, but you did state your belief as declarations of fact (NO WAY..., etc.)

As for God using evolution to create - that's a tough sell. If we (man) are nothing more than upgraded monkeys, then there is really nothing special about us. But He says He made us in His image. He loves you and me, no matter if anyone else does or not.

If we (man) are nothing more than upgraded monkeys, then there is really nothing special about us.

This kind of recurrent objection to the plain evidence always makes me wonder about what self-esteem problems religious people suffer.

I mean - we've gone in just 6,000 years from unable to make written language to sending probes out of our solar system, unlocking the genetic code of life, probing the subatomic and mapping the galaxy. Not to mention whipping most diseases, hunger, increasing personal liberty, etc etc etc. Then there's all that philosophy, morality and ethics we've developed over the millenia that increasingly focuses on individual liberty rather than service to king or state.

Hell, I'm practically exploding with pride. If that doesn't make us pretty freaking special, I don't know what would.

As for God using evolution to create - that's a tough sell. If we (man) are nothing more than upgraded monkeys, then there is really nothing special about us. But He says He made us in His image. He loves you and me, no matter if anyone else does or not.

Self-esteem problems there? so what if we evolved from Monkeys, are we monkeys now? Good grief!!

And maybe, just maybe he created others in his own image as well, do you know differently? Sometimes Religious fundamentalists amaze me. If it were up to you, the earth would be flat, the sun would rotate around the earth, and we would be the center of the universe. Well, sorry, the earth is a big ball, we orbit the sun, and our galaxy is insignificant and we are on the outreaches of that.

We are NOTHING compared to the rest of the universe, less then a spec of dust. GET OVER IT!!!!

We are NOT the end all be all of the universe, it is statistically IMPOSSIBLE for us to be the ONLY civilization to have developed in the universe, they are out there, and we will someday contact them if they are close enough, or we ever figure out faster then light travel. In the meantime, it is time for you to realize that we are insignificant when compared to the size and scope of the universe.

We are not the center of the universe and NEVER have been.