RE: Evidence God Exists
April 27, 2010 at 12:46 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2010 at 4:36 pm by AngelThMan.)
(April 26, 2010 at 1:23 pm)lukec Wrote: Ok cool so your evidence, right or wrong, is that humans are now the dominant species?As a theistic evolutionist, I believe in God as well as evolution. While evolution alone can explain our intelligence to the degree of survival (as in early man), it cannot explain intelligence to the degree that it ultimately developed into (as in modern man). Since everything that happens in evolution is geared towards the survival of a species, then how is sapient and sentient intelligence necessary for our survival? In other words, how is the ability to develop art, science, technology, etc. an evolutionary necessity? Other primates have survived without it, as did early man.
But this could also have occurred through evolution so... how is this evidence for god?
So how is this evidence God exists? To be able to gauge my theory, you need to consider all these different points at once...
1. We are the only species equipped with this special intelligence. If sapient and sentient intelligence were just a result of evolution, why didn't at least 1 other of the millions of species on this earth, including close primates, develop it?
2. We are the only species provided with dexterous opposable thumbs.
3. The above features affords us an incredible advantage over all other species (i.e. we enjoy dominion on the planet).
4. We are the only species that can follow God, and are therefore given the above advantages.
5. What I've outlined here corroborates the bible's assertion that God created man in his image, and that animals are inferior. (It's important to note that these things were written in the bible in completely different contexts. In other words, no one was using them to prove that because we have intelligence there's a God.)
6. The Neanderthal is extinct, perhaps another sign we are the only species meant to have our brand of intelligence.
If you consider all these points, you may be able to detect an intelligent design.