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Well actually Tribo...not get into a pissing match with you but can't we all say that we live in a world full of unknowns. We live it every day if we are observant.

I can say that even tho I am a visual person I know there are nuances to faith that most people don't realize for themselves or their lives. We only complain when things don't go our way but how about all the joyful surprizes in life?

I think it's the same thing with evolution vs. creation. I think it's both. Since God can divinely intervene at any given time in the course of the natural realm...why not the big bang theory?

I know you recognize that some things can't be explained. I do too. Can we agree on that?

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Uh...people kill their children every day. Ever heard of abortion?

Please! Stop with the twisted logic here. Left up to their own devices, People kill themselves ...and other people. Not God.

O.K. now creationism:

Let’s see, what observations or objective evidences demonstrate that a supernatural being poofed fully formed man into existence, out of dirt, only about 6 to 10 thousand years ago, and then yanked out a rib to create woman? None. Zip. Zilch. All that supports those religious assertions is a book written several thousand years ago. And this book – the Holy Bible – was written by grossly superstitious people who were completely ignorant of modern biology, astronomy, geology, physics, and other sciences; has been translated and mistranslated time after time over the years; and consists primarily of second-hand and third-hand stories (at least), many of which are reports about other people’s dreams. This “evidence” for the special creation of man does not even begin to compare favorably with the many scientific evidences listed above for the evolutionary origin of humans.

But let’s go ahead anyway and spend a few minutes considering what it would mean for a Creationist God to have created humans as mentioned in the Bible. More precisely, we are looking at two possible explanations for human origins: Creation (special creation by God about 10,000 years ago) and evolution (our species arising by descent with modification, most recently from an ancestor we share with chimps). Let’s consider just the first piece of genetic evidence provided above (the 96% to 99% identity between chimp and human DNA) and ask which of the two possibilities is the better explanation. Or rather, how does the Creationist explanation compare to the evolutionary one already laid out.

According to Creationists, God is an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-righteous supernatural being who created the entire Universe in only 6 days: His powers are unlimited and He knows the past, the present, and the future. But then why would God have created humans and chimps to share 96% to 99% identity in their DNA?


1) First, God could have created humans with completely different DNA sequences. For example, God could have effortlessly zapped humans into existence with a gene for hemoglobin that is only, say, 85% identical to that of chimpanzees. Why did God make ours exactly identical to the chimp’s? Worse, why did He not only make the human and chimpanzee base sequences for hemoglobin identical, but also make them different from that of most other animals? And, different in just the right manner to give the supposedly false illusion of a hierarchical system (groups within groups) of relationships between species, that He also tricked scientists into believing by falsely creating a vast number of other genes that overall also demonstrate the same nested groupings? For some unexplained reason, God knowingly chose to make our DNA – not just for hemoglobin, but for a whole slew of other genes too – so similar to chimps, and decreasingly similar to increasingly less-related species, that it convincingly gives the supposedly false illusion that we share a common ancestor with them? Why? That would be knowingly misleading: grossly misleading.

2) Second, God is claimed to be all powerful and not limited by the laws of nature. So He could have created humans such that we didn’t even have DNA! We humans could be based on some weird genetic molecule called, for example, “ZNA”, which is based on inorganic metals like zinc and iron (instead of carbon), while all other life was based on DNA. Now that would be great evidence that we were created separately from all other life: but it’s not the case.

3) Third, why did God even create chimps? If God didn’t create the great apes – animals that genetically and anatomically are highly similar to humans – and ancient hominids, which was surely within His powers, we wouldn’t even be having this discussion. Unlike nature, God didn’t have to create any primates or ancient hominids in order to create humans: He controls the whole Universe and is not bound to creating something only if something else like it already exists. Maybe God wanted to plant more misleading evidence, laying His great deception on extra thick!

All of these things God would have done, intentionally, knowing the future. Why? It sure appears that He would have done so specifically to mislead future scientists into believing “the lie” of evolution. God set a complex, interdependent trap, so that He could then condemn to eternal damnation and unending torment anyone who falls prey to His deceit?

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