(January 27, 2015 at 4:45 pm)bob96 Wrote:(January 27, 2015 at 4:05 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Why bother? You're just going to blindly assert that your interpretation of whatever we say conveniently sidesteps the obvious contradiction.
But the easiest one would just be that the creation account is contradicted by what we know of biological evolution; the bible makes an unambiguous claim that all life was created, in pairs where humans are concerned. This is, quite simply, wrong: life evolved gradually as part of a complex, interconnected series of speciations from common ancestors. If your response is to appeal to interpretation then you're essentially saying that the bible says one thing, but means the exact opposite of the words it says, and I don't know why you expect any of us to take that seriously at all.
One issue I have with evolution is the interpretation of skulls. There is enormous variation of size and shape in the human skull.
For example, look at the following comparisons:
Modern Aboriginal vs Slavic skull [1]
"its morphology (the Modern Aboriginal skull) could be described as archaic" (Jim Vanhollebeke - Paleoanthropologist)
Neanderthal vs Homosapien skull
Note the protruding eye ridge and 'bun' are similar features in both Neanderthal and modern Aboriginal skulls.
To claim that Neanderthal was a less evolved human is simply not objective science.
Err, so?
What do you mean 'less evolved'? 9x out of 10 'more or less' evolved is nonsensical when we consider evolution.
Is a goose more or less evolved than a human, for example?
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