(September 25, 2013 at 11:23 am)Rahul Wrote:(September 25, 2013 at 10:49 am)Drich Wrote: which is really meaningless anyway, because again this is not an evolutionary discussion, but how the Whole of evolution now fits with in the confines of creation.
The creation story in the bible is very brief and very vague. You can invent whatever apologetics you would like to try and shove a square peg into a round hole but it's not going to look very pretty after you're done.
Humans and chimps share more DNA with each other than any other creatures on the planet, even though all life is related. We share around 30 percent of our DNA with plants like the carrot.
Theists say, "Well, why couldn't god use the same DNA for various creations?"
Well, he could. Especially if he was too dimwitted to come up with an alternative way to code for it.
Human remains a little over 100,000 years ago can not be found anywhere else on the planet other than certains parts of Africa. Oddly enough the same part of the planet where Chimps exist.
Humans show the most genetic diversity also in this same location. The only genetic variability among humans more diverse between groups rather than within groups relates to skin pigmentation. This is an example of environmentally selection based evolution.
All of these various facts, found in wide ranging scientific fields from Evolution, Geography, Morphology, Archaeology, etc., support that we share a common ancestor with Chimps and that this common ancestor was from somewhere in Africa.
Everything humanity has learned, including new fields of study that didn't even exist more than a few decades ago, supports a scientific theory first proposed over 150 years ago.
That biological evolution is a fact, that humans are just another animal on earth, and that we are descended from a common ancestor with our fellow great apes.
Now either god A) is retarded or B) he intentionally meant to deceive us by his creation or C) religion is a bunch of BS. Or can you come up with a fourth suggestion? If not a fourth, I would like to hear your explanation for why a supposedly "all loving" god would intentionally deceive us humans in order to trick us into ignoring his salvation and spending an eternity in his little punishment dimension of never ending anguish and torment.
You also have to factor in that if all life is the result of intelligent design how is it that the Amoeba has a genome 200 times larger than ours?
Was God learning on the job?