Just a question, but who here believes in evolution? Why or why not?
I'm both religious and an evolutionist. I see no reason why the big bang can't be God snapping his fingers, and I also see no reason why it isn't possible for a species to mutate.
Take into consideration the following examples:
If evolution is the mutation of a species into a completely different species, then it's a little harder to believe. It is, however, not impossible. I watched a TV show that predicted the evolutionary capabilities of a fly. They basically gave the computer some DNA information, and sped up time in a changing envorionment. Over millions of years, the bug changed into a more capable organism (while still remaining similar to its anscestral fly). While this is not solid proof, it does suggest that it is not unreasonable for a monkey to become a man.
Keep in mind that, of course, man wouldn't have evolved from apes per se. We simply had the same anscestral species. We were always 'Human', we just had longer arms, more hair, and smaller brains a few million years ago.
If evolution is just the changing of a species to better suit their environment, then we see it in every day life. A thousand years ago, the average adult male was almost a foot shorter than the average male of today. Likewise, a thousand years ago, the average age for a girl to enter puberty was 17 or 18. Today, most girls undergo a change around 12 or 13. Black people have more pigment in their skin because they or their anscestors live(ed) in a place where the sun was hotter and more damaging to the body, so they became black as a way to counter the harmful sideeffects of our sun. White people have less pigment because they're from the north and south, and their anscestors had no use for great amounts of pigment. Hence their bodies gradually expunged it. Things like that.
Some people I know don't understand the theory of evolution, which is half the reason they don't believe in it. Everyone has their own opinions, but PLEASE DON'T VOTE UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE VOTING ON.
I'm both religious and an evolutionist. I see no reason why the big bang can't be God snapping his fingers, and I also see no reason why it isn't possible for a species to mutate.
Take into consideration the following examples:
If evolution is the mutation of a species into a completely different species, then it's a little harder to believe. It is, however, not impossible. I watched a TV show that predicted the evolutionary capabilities of a fly. They basically gave the computer some DNA information, and sped up time in a changing envorionment. Over millions of years, the bug changed into a more capable organism (while still remaining similar to its anscestral fly). While this is not solid proof, it does suggest that it is not unreasonable for a monkey to become a man.
Keep in mind that, of course, man wouldn't have evolved from apes per se. We simply had the same anscestral species. We were always 'Human', we just had longer arms, more hair, and smaller brains a few million years ago.
If evolution is just the changing of a species to better suit their environment, then we see it in every day life. A thousand years ago, the average adult male was almost a foot shorter than the average male of today. Likewise, a thousand years ago, the average age for a girl to enter puberty was 17 or 18. Today, most girls undergo a change around 12 or 13. Black people have more pigment in their skin because they or their anscestors live(ed) in a place where the sun was hotter and more damaging to the body, so they became black as a way to counter the harmful sideeffects of our sun. White people have less pigment because they're from the north and south, and their anscestors had no use for great amounts of pigment. Hence their bodies gradually expunged it. Things like that.
Some people I know don't understand the theory of evolution, which is half the reason they don't believe in it. Everyone has their own opinions, but PLEASE DON'T VOTE UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE VOTING ON.