RE: So you believe in evolution..
December 23, 2011 at 7:11 am
(This post was last modified: December 23, 2011 at 7:14 am by power.)
(December 23, 2011 at 6:31 am)Darwinian Wrote: Macroevolution (one species becoming another) hasn't been 'observed' because it takes such a long time for it to happen just the same that the formation of mountains have not literally been observed to happen.
However, any geologist will tell you all the processes involved in their creation because they have the geological records to study, and all makes perfect sense.
If each individual species was created by your god then why do animals such as wales have vestigial limbs?
The anatomy of the hand of a blue whale showing the bones and finger muscles.
And why do snakes (see below) have the remnants of hind limbs if they have never been anything other than snakes?
These are just two of countless examples of one species that must have evolved from another.
To simply dismiss all this evidence as nonsense in favour of a belief that these species were created individually by an omnipotent being existing outside of time and space as described by desert goat herders living some 2600 years ago is quite extraordinary and even now, I still have trouble accepting that otherwise intelligent people can think this way
How is a flipper a vestigial limb? A bat has the same bone structure in its wings. I'm not sure what you think that is supposed to prove.
The spurs on that snake are used for reproductive purposes, they aren't vestigial legs. They aren't even anchored to anything, they are just free floating in muscle tissue. To claim those were once legs is pretty silly.
If I thought it was good evidence, I would accept it. I once believed in the theory of evolution myself. I reject it because of a lack of evidence, not because I ignore evidence.
(December 23, 2011 at 6:32 am)Ace Otana Wrote:(December 23, 2011 at 6:20 am)power Wrote: What this is saying is that there is a general revelation that God gives from the Creation itself. So this isn't really about a lack of evidence, because you and everything else around you is evidence of a creation, but rather the question is why you are suppressing the truth about it.
Well that's helpful information....not!
All you've basically said is 'god did it'. You've done nothing, provided nothing, just given us a simple 'look, god did that!'.
Useless!
What that says is that the evidence is all around you, and that you are suppressing the truth. That the existence of God is obvious, and for some reason only known to you, you actively deny it.
Of all choices, atheism requires the greatest faith, as it demands that ones limited store of human knowledge is sufficient to exclude the possibility of God.
Francis Collins
Human Genome Project
Francis Collins
Human Genome Project