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To: _Jim

Of course, how much DNA we share with primates would lend support to the evolutionist.

However, there is still enough difference it is hard for me to accept it has to mean we evolved. It could mean that God organized similar animals in such a way that animals in the same phyla....without evolving....shared the same DNA.

There are cases of transitional fossils being located for primates, but these could also just be species in the same phyla that died out; they are not not necessarily evolutionary ancestors of modern humans.

I try to keep an open mind. I am not a moron and won't sit back and close my mind to science. Heaven help us if Christians do that. But, I need something that shows there can't be other explanations. Transitional fossils etc. still could have other explanations.


137 posted on 12/19/2004 1:56:38 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
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To: rwfromkansas
But, I need something that shows there can't be other explanations. Transitional fossils etc. still could have other explanations.

Any one thing can have another explanation. But not everything. When evidence has been gathered for generations, and it all fits into and supports the theory of evolution (it was, after all, devised by Darwin to account for the evidence he knew about), and when even new, independent lines of evidence (genetics, and later DNA, things Darwin didn't know about), which could have contradicted the theory, but which also fit into and support the theory, and no evidence contradicts the theory, then you'd have to admit that evolution is a theory that is on very strong ground. There is no other scientific explanation that can deal with all this evidence. It could all be a miracle, but that's not a testable idea, so it's outside the domain of science.

145 posted on 12/19/2004 2:19:16 PM PST by PatrickHenry (The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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