IMHO, evolution leaves so much unanswered and requires so much more of a leap of faith to believe in. I could never understand the need to explain away so much.
Much less faith is needed to believe in intellegent design. I love the explanation of taking a bag of music notes, shaking them up, throwing them into the air and expecting them to form a song when they land, and a bunch of building materials to make a perfect building w/o an architect. We know that everything man creates requires a designer, how much more complex is say, a human eye? No designer for that?
I do however believe when matter was called into existence, it very well could have caused a big bang, and I totally believe that natural selection has played a huge part in why owl’s have awesome night vision and giraffes have really long necks and lots of other adaptations. None of this is evolution tho.
If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes. If we evolved from lizards or fish, same question. Why the need for 1300 varieties of orchid? Wouldn’t the best orchid be the only kind? If there was never matter, wouldn’t there still never be matter? How did the first matter get here?
No, the only thing evolutionists need to be able to do is deny the existence of God because man, in their minds, has become like God, as there is no other superior being if we evolved as the higest form of life.
not “from apes” but a common ancestor.
That is why the DNA is so common with so many other species.
The poll is a crock because both positions are not mutually exlusive. God can be the creator of life and evolution is a sound scientific principle.
Evolution actually specifically is the antithisis of asking for faith. It is supposed to be examined and disected and reexamined. Creationism, in the political context, is the one that demands loyalty to the exclusion of what is seen before the eyes.
That argument is actually one that shouldn't be used, because if evolution were true it wouldn't be contradicted by lower forms remaining.