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Evolution!!!!!
I hope all of you keep an open mind when reading this:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6...132/632/527201
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I hope all of you keep an open mind when reading this:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6...132/632/527201
Very cool article....

I'd like to reiterate this part:

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Before I begin with more of the article from NewScientist, I want to lay some ground-rules. A lot of people don't know what evolution is, and some are sure to misrepresent the whole shebang, so I'm going to do it here before we go any further.

A GENETIC MUTATION'S INITIAL SPARK = PURE BLIND CHANCE, FOR GOOD OR BAD. NOTHING MORE. BUT EVOLUTION IS WHEN THAT MUTATION GETS PASSED ON FOR GENERATIONS, EITHER BECAUSE OF THE MUTATION (OR EVEN IN SPITE OF IT).

Now to bust some of those myths.

Humans evolved from apes we see today, am I right? No. Humans evolved from a primate a few million years ago. And so did the apes we see today. We have a common ancestor.

Just a theory, right? In the same way that stress theory is what engineers use to build buildings, bridges, and keep the wings on airplanes ...yeah, just a theory. 'Theory' and 'law' in science don't have the layman meanings. If they did, you could break the law and then claim to be free of gravity too.

If nobody saw it, it didn't happen. Well, that's a beautiful one now that people HAVE seen it. And seeing as these bacteria didn't evolve to prove evangelical preachers wrong, it's always been a fact of life. That's what we call a weak argument.

There are no intermediate fossils. Ah, you haven't heard about the intermediate fossil remains from the ancestors of whales. Indocetus, Pakicetus and so on.

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The God I know is big enough to have allowed evolution to happen.
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The God I know is big enough to have allowed evolution to happen.
So how did you vote or how would you vote in that last poll on the page itself?

Creationism will evolve to claim evolution is how creationism works.

OR

Creationism will not evolve and will die.

It sounds like you're going with the first choice.

i believe the same thing you have written -- the only thing I don't understand is why the trickery with the time lines... I don't understand people who hold to the "young earth" idea (believe the world is only about 6,000 years old).

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The God I know is big enough to have allowed evolution to happen.
You're right, but I also believe that God could have pointed at "the dust of the earth" and Adam could have appeared out of just the dirt. I also believe God could have said, "hey, Adam, let me get one of those ribs" and Eve could have appeared out of nothing more than a human rib. I believe that God created the process that we call evolution because we don't have minds to process the instant miracles that God is capable of. If some guy was flying from Montana to Africa and when he jumped of the plane he suddenly turned black......I don't think anyone would be able to handle that. I also don't think anyone could handle a fish flying out of the water and instantly growing wings and flying off. Creation is a slow process in our minds, but probably almost an instant process in the eyes of God. The fact that we theorize and guess what might have happen is because of the fact that we are human and we need some type of pliable, physical evidence that something happened. The problem there is that God isn't pliable and he isn't physical......he is spiritual. You just have to have a little faith and not so much science.
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I believe that we evolve but not from a "primate" I do not believe that things happened the way they think they did but I do believe we have changed and so has everything else









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I believe that people with Ph.D's in biology know more about evolution than I do...does that count?
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I believe that we evolve but not from a "primate" I do not believe that things happened the way they think they did but I do believe we have changed and so has everything else
We were primates, we still are primates. Our species (homo sapiens is a member of the Family Hominidae which includes all the other primates -- apes, chimpanzees and bonobos, etc...

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