My House Did not have a Builder (or did it?)

[bennyboy]

I don't think scientists are dumb. But I did hear that somewhere. Not sure where. I haven't gone to church in over ten years. Maybe I heard it when I was a kid.  I've heard a few times that evolution has to take such a long time to occur, that the earth has to be that old in order for the evolution to take place.  If I'm wrong about that, then I apologize.
But if evolution doesn't take that long to occur, then why isn't there so much more evidence of it? Not only in observation, but in paleontological finds and archaeological finds, etc?

It's true that evolution takes a long time, especially for long-generation species like humans.  But that's not how the Earth was dated.

As for lack of evidence-- not sure how to respond to this.  Instead of saying there's no evidence, why don't you google "Evidence for Evolution" and find the many hundreds of pages, scientific papers, and so on, about exactly that.  In fact, here:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=evidence+for+evolution

or just go to wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_o...on_descent

or one of my favorite sites now, Khan academy, for a nice video about it:
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biol...-evolution

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Here's my position regarding evolution and God:
1)  If God is real, evolution is a mechanism put in place by God, or a natural byproduct of the physical rules set up by God.
2)  Avoiding discovering the truth as revealed by science is to choose the God of text over a living creator God.
3)  If (2) is heresy, the religion is wrong-- because truth cannot be against God, right?

Take care when choosing the scientific knowledge of the ancient sand dwellers who wrote the Bible against the actual observations and careful thought of hundreds of years of brilliant scientists.  This will not only lead to a poor understanding of our physical reality, but I'd suggest that dwelling on the ideas of man rather than on the truth as revealed by God's universe might actual be a mortal sin.