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 Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 11:01 am
. I support evolution, to an extent.
I mean, it does make a lot of sense, but there are also parts that aren't explained.
i mean, first of all, there's the time problem. a single bacterium has 2000 enzymes.
scientists have estimated how long it would take the enzymes to randomly assemble themselves from a primordial soup, and the estimates run for 40 billion to 100 billion years, and the earth is only 4 billion years old.
and that's only one of the problems.
what do you think?
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 11:24 am
I totally believe in evolution. It just makes sense! WAY more sense than Adam and Eve...
Some people think it's absurd because it says that we come from monkeys. What's wrong with coming from monkeys? Monkeys can be really smart!
I remember when I had to sit next to this one girl in art class. I swear all she talked about was how awesome god is and how "Passion of the Christ" is the most powerful movie to ever exist. I HAD TO LISTEN TO HER EVERYDAY... Then one day I told her that I don't believe in any of that, I believe in evolution, and she totally freaked out on me. Saying I'm going to go to hell and stuff if I don't change. Man I hated that girl... stare
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 11:49 am
I like to think of it as a blend of evolution and the Creation theory.
Because I believe in God. But I believe in scientific facts.
I like to think of the "Seven days" not really days but more like years...many years.
Basically I believe that God created everything, it just took him(or her? whatever) longer to do it.
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:06 pm
I can agree and relate to the above. I do get alot of rude comments from people who dont believe in evolution and believe in some higher power instead. Between the two, evolution makes a heck of alot more sense. I just kind of think of God as another story my parents told me when I was little. Like Santa Clause.. I mean If you believe there is a God how much more crazy would it be to believe in Santa Clause? Not that I'm saying anyone has to be crazy to believe in those sort of things. It really depends on how you were raised. Kids are very naive and that is the age where they can be most influenced in how to live and how to act. If you can make a child believe that the boogeyman exists. Surely God and the Devil would be a snap for them to grasp their minds around. Act bad, you go to hell. Act good, you go to heaven. Which brings me back to Santa Clause, good boys and girls get toys and the bad ones get coal in their stockings. It's just another way to influence future generations to grow up and live a way that you would prefer them to. My dad is very religious and ever since I can remember he'd take me to church every Sunday and bible studies on wednsedays and you cant forget sunday school. And during holidays we probably went to church 3 or 4 times a week. Needless to say I was way past brainwashed. I felt like I couldn't think for myself on how I should live my life, it was decided for me. I didnt have the balls to tell my dad how I felt and that I was confused on all the religious crap and unrightfully shoved into my head. So eventually I snapped and to make my point we no longer talk and I've never felt more like a free woman. I dont totally agree or understand evolution and I doubt I ever will. Life is a really random thing.. If it was supposed to make sense well, wouldn't it? If you think about it nothing really makes sense in this world.
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:20 pm
I strongly believe in evolution, I mean heck, you can watch single cell organisms duplicate in a tube... I also, however, believe in God (And by God, I don't neccesarily mean the Christian God, but God as the higher power, and creator of life). If life begins as a small, illiterate, creature... Why then, would God have created the first two humans at full adult hood? Why would he not merely give the spark of life (Bacteria) to the world, and not only our world, but many worlds. That is merely my opinion though, and not everyone has to agree with it, or even accept it, I just decided to share it with you all.
Also, at MissAnnoyingPants... I had an art TEACHER, who would constantly preach to our class about the Christian faith. I did three art projects in the class, and heard lectures on faith probably exceeding the two-hundred mark.
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 5:30 pm
AniMangaKun Also, at MissAnnoyingPants... I had an art TEACHER, who would constantly preach to our class about the Christian faith. I did three art projects in the class, and heard lectures on faith probably exceeding the two-hundred mark. Damn, that must have sucked... gonk I respect that you believe in God, but since I don't, that one girl kept picking on me about that. Same with a lot of people who believe in god and think that I should too. gonk Religious person: Where do you think we came from? Me: We evolved from monkeys. Religious person: Where did the monkeys come from? Me: I dunno. Fish? Vertebrea animals? Religious person: And where did they come from? Me: Bacteria I suppose... Religious person: Where did the bacteria come from? Me: Proteins that manifested themselves into living things during the lightning storm when the earth was young? Religious person: And where did the protein and the lightning storm come from? Me: They were just there when the universe began... There are still scientist trying to find out how and why. Religious person: See? God PUT them there... So cheap... emo
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:38 pm
. well, religion and science have always been against each other.
that's mainly because wherever faith didn't have the answer, science did, and the church resented science for that.
so maybe people that don't believe in evolution because of god, are just avoiding the real issue at hand
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 8:08 pm
evalution? yeah. the similarities can't be coincidense!
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:57 pm
I very firmly believe that evolution is a fact. I'll openly admit that we don't know everything about it that there is to know, and perhaps we never will, but the basic theory of evolution itself is fact. You only need to look around to see evolution working everywhere and in everything in nature.
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:14 am
I try remaining open minded to this stuff, I believe in evolution, since it's been proven. Our exact origins though, from the earlier life of the world is still a mystery, perhaps it'll always remain that way, and I believe the theory of God is to help people, just with the comfort of someone looking out for them, even when they're alone.
Also I heard theories that the original god could of been early encounters with what we now know as aliens.
Whether created by a malevolent being, ET, or by pure dumb luck, I don't know, and I'll remain open minded about it, but not in a ignorant fashion. Faith is something I don't give for accumulation of coincidences.
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:41 am
I agree with Brilliant Insanity but like Sk2k52 said we need to remain
open minded to everything that's thrown around theories are just
thoughtsor ideas someone thought up and until we have the ability to go back in time there is no true way of proving evolution or the creation theory wrong
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:12 pm
I believe in the Theory of Evolution.
We came from Monkeys. The monkeys evolved into the Cavemen and so on and so forth.
Sure, there are time problems, but it seems very logical.
I don't really believe in God, but a force of higher ranking than ours as mortals on this Earth.
Anyways, I do believe more in the Theory of Evolution then I do in the Adam and Eve theory. I do kind of combine them somehow, but most of my belief is in the Evolution theory.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:38 pm
 Are you going to be alright?
I believe in evolution.
The creation story in the bible is just a myth, a story, of how the world started because Jews did not know the answer, so they created a story. Adam and Eve were not created in the Garden of Eden. Life did not begin 4000 years ago, as according to the Church(some priest said he found out the exact date od Creation...). It is the same as the Greeks, the many, many Natives, the Romans, etc. It's a myth about something unexplained.
Evolution is the truth.
Besides there are no Dinosaurs in the Bible. ;>>
Yes. I have you by my side...
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 10:21 pm
luvSimpson3 I try to be religious, so this is my take on it... I believe that evolution is god's rough drafts of what we should be, we haven't gotten there though so he's still working on it, haven't you ever wondered how is it that before we are even born our body is already adapted to our surroundings? Like for example, eskimos generally have small bodies as to decrease heat loss, and so on and so forth, almost everywhere it's proven, i'm not saying that ethnicities should be subcateragized, but here's the point... how do cells know what to prepare for, without ever having touched the surface world?, to me there has to be a larger divine power controlling our progress, I don't care what scientists say, it's not being stubborn, alright maybe a little...but why is it so hard to believe, why do we NEED to see to believe? Can't we just believe there's a greater good that wasn't created by us?
And you say these things: "Why do we NEED to see to believe?" "I don't care what the scientists say"
Try denouncing science next time a doctor saves a loved one's life.
Try denouncing science next time you drive to church in an automobile.
Food for thought?
I'm sorry you "try to be religious"; I don't see why you should. Are you trying to please your parents and your friends at church? Think for yourself, and keep an open mind. wink
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