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Originally posted by KingPenguin:
i did say they were just some thoughts and i find it strange that you didnt respond to the creationist half of my post.
Originally posted by KingPenguin
also god may have tried to create an earth suitable for man, failed to do so, destroyed all
the life besides man and eden, and repeated this several times. maybe god had always intended man to only live
in the garden of eden and not be outcast for eating the forbidden apples. he just didnt need to have an animal
counterpart for man until man was cast out to live without the fruits of eden. maybe it was easy for humans at
first but we kept sinning so he made life more and more difficult for humans as they made it more and more
difficult for him to forgive them for all of their sins. just some ideas.
The problem with replying to the
creationsist half of
your post is that there is nothing to reply to. It represents
your own opinion/thought (which is fine), but if you want it
to spark debate you need to SUPPORT it with some evidence.
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Originally posted by KingPenguin:
the river still could have corrupted a few and maybe added and removed fossils that were or werent in that region originally.
It could, but that would show up as an anomaly in the fossil
record ... it would not re-order the ENTIRE fossil record.
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Originally posted by KingPenguin:
also if we did evolve from apes and the apes survived all this time then why didnt a few of the middle species stay around too, it to me seems more likely that the better smarter monkey would have had a great chance of living than the ones we have now.
First (how many more times) evolution does NOT say that we evolved
from apes. Find me an evolutionary reference that says so if you
can!
Second (a bit pedanticly) monkeys are NOT apes.
Modern apes, man, and monkeys are on the SAME RUNG of the
evolutionary ladder. We are NOT more advanced than other
modern animals in an evolutionary sense.
We
may have higher intelligence than other animals (even
that is open to debate), but we are not more advanced.
What evolution does postulate, is that apes and man have a common
ancestor.
There was a creature in the dim and distant past which was split
into two populations, each of which developed along slightly
different lines. One branch led to modern man, the other to
modern apes.
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Originally posted by KingPenguin:
or did the smart monkeys just breed with eachother like crazy and were then allowed to choose mates?
The 'smart monkeys' evolved into us.
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