(June 6, 2014 at 8:50 am)mickiel Wrote: I am ignorant of many things, but my awareness grows annually.Ah, so you'll be an atheist soon enough.
Please be aware that "I cannot imagine that this could have occurred in this manner" is best dealt with by continuing to learn and trying to increase our knowledge and understanding. If we decide to go with "therefore the only possible answer is god" we have decided not to learn anything else. You cannot progress further once you decide to stop moving.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould