(November 12, 2009 at 12:53 pm)MetalVampire Wrote: As one of my GCSE options i took religious studies, and last week we had a creationist come in to talk about genesis one or something like that
He said that the creationist evolutionary tree is different to one that acctually makes sense, not in thoes exact words, but yeah
anyway, he said that the one that makes sense starts with one organism or something like that, and then eventually leads to us, in one tree
And the one that he believes is lots of little trees for each type of animal to evolve from, e.g. wolves start one tree leading onto dogs, or crocodiles to lizards and stuff like that.
at the end i asked him how that was possible, and what the wolf would have come from, how any of the first animals evolved, and he said that they were the ones that got onto the arc.....
He said that all the animals and people we have today, all came from the animals that got on the ark and noahs family
Eurgh, that doesnt make any sense to me at all...
How could that even happen?
According to Biblical creation, God created the animals after their "kind". Now it cannot be said exactly what the original "kinds" were. But it sure makes sense to me that given two animals that are of say the "dog kind" which have a lot of potential diversity built into the DNA thereof, all the types of dogs we observe today could certainly have been produced. So if your question is could all things that we call dogs have come from two original dogs, I think the answer is yes. Could all the cats we see today have come from two original cats? Yes. Could all the humans we see today have come from two original humans? Yes. So why does this make less sense than to say that we all come from some original organism? Why is this inconsistent with what we actually observe?
As to the platypus, maybe it was its own kind?
