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Evolution Thread Posted: 07-23-07 11:32am


OK. So let's go at it: who here believes evolution is bogus? What's your proof?

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Posted: 07-23-07 11:53am


what do you mean by evolution?

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Posted: 07-23-07 11:56am


Evolution, as in we've evolved from a more primitive species. As opposed to the "God made us in his image" belief.

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Re: Evolution Thread
Posted: 07-23-07 12:07pm

yogahoneybunny wrote:

OK. So let's go at it: who here believes evolution is bogus? What's your proof?

ok.. i'm ready to get slammed.. Smile

if we came from monkeys, why are not all monkeys like us.. Some just decided to stay down-right and not walk up-right?
And if we came from the big bang? What made all the components to make the big bang?

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Posted: 07-23-07 12:09pm

meblonde01 wrote:

yogahoneybunny wrote:

OK. So let's go at it: who here believes evolution is bogus? What's your proof?

ok.. i'm ready to get slammed.. Smile

oh well in this case

i agree with meblonde01 Wink

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Posted: 07-23-07 12:19pm


um i don't think it's that we "came from" monkeys, it's that monkeys are our closest cousins since we have 98% of their dna.

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Posted: 07-23-07 12:22pm


ok you know how dogs and wolves are in the same "family" and cats and tigers...zebras and horses...etc thats what i think we are distant relatives to apes but ...didnt exactly come from them...i dunno how im trying to explain it but..ill...er...ill find the words

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Posted: 07-23-07 12:32pm


I just have a feeling that this might get personal for some people. I hope not. I dont believe that we as humans evolved from apes. Even in anthropology class in college when my teacher was teaching us about evolution, he himself that there is a missing link. So no I don't think that we come from apes. I do however believe that we as humans have evolved from primitive man as in cave man type humans. The cavemen have been found to have different bone structure than modern day man, and from this, I think that there is proof that we have evolved, not necessarily from apes, but we as humans have evolved into what we are today. There still is that missing link that as of now, still has not proven that we evolved from apes.

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Re: Evolution Thread
Posted: 07-23-07 12:46pm

meblonde01 wrote:

yogahoneybunny wrote:

OK. So let's go at it: who here believes evolution is bogus? What's your proof?

ok.. i'm ready to get slammed.. Smile

That's easy to explain. It's the same reason not all bugs are identical, not all fish are the same, etc.

Secondly, there were many many species of sub-humans evolving with us. Yes, there were many similar species of "human" evolving together, to answer your question. But not all monkeys had a need to develop bipedalism. Eventually, natural selection finally weeded homo sapeins out as the strongest species. All of the other species died out. They were just not as well adapted for changing climates and travel as homo sapiens was.

As for the big bang, we just don't know. Science doesn't have all the answers, but unlike religion, science doesn't "make up" reasons for everything just to finish the story Razz

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Posted: 07-23-07 12:48pm

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ok you know how dogs and wolves are in the same "family"
and cats and tigers...zebras and horses...etc

thats what i think
we are distant relatives to apes but ...didnt exactly come from them...i dunno how im trying to explain it but..ill...er...ill find the words

No, we didn't come from apes, that's what no one seems to understand. People AND apes both came from an ape-like ancestor.

Secondly, I'm pretty sure the "missing link" has been discovered. No, I don't remember exactly what National Geographic article it was in. Thing is, it was never just "one" animal or pre-human. Just like puberty isn't a single step...

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Posted: 07-23-07 12:58pm

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If the missing link was discovered, it wouldnt be called the THEORY of evolution. There is no missing links. In fact there would need to be thousands-millions of missing links to make the theory true.

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Re: Evolution Thread
Posted: 07-23-07 13:00pm

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meblonde01 wrote:

yogahoneybunny wrote:

OK. So let's go at it: who here believes evolution is bogus? What's your proof?

ok.. i'm ready to get slammed.. Smile

That's easy to explain. It's the same reason not all bugs are identical, not all fish are the same, etc.

Secondly, there were many many species of sub-humans evolving with us. Yes, there were many similar species of "human" evolving together, to answer your question. But not all monkeys had a need to develop bipedalism. Eventually, natural selection finally weeded homosexual sapeins out as the strongest species. All of the other species died out. They were just not as well adapted for changing climates and travel as homosexual sapiens was.

As for the big bang, we just don't know. Science doesn't have all the answers, but unlike religion, science doesn't "make up" reasons for everything just to finish the story Razz

ahh thats what i was trying to say!!! sub humans is a great word for it
and i didnt mean to say that we CAME from apes
but that they are apart of the group that never evolved

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Posted: 07-23-07 13:07pm


I think the theory is just silly. Its mans way to explain away God. If one just puts a little thought and reason into it, I believe they will come to the conclusin that God is real. For evo to work, plants and animals would had to have evolved at the exact same rate. If it werent for plants animals wouldnt be here. Coincidentally the plants evolved into fruits and veges that we must have to survive. And coincidentally they taste great. Life just doesnt come into existance. With our great technologically advanced labs, scientists have tryed and failed every time to create life. Yet it just happened. cmon. Self reasoning tells us its bogus. If we evolved we wouldnt have a sense of consious or morallity, but we do. enough for now.

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Posted: 07-23-07 13:13pm


Why is it that people think evolution has to exist seperately from "god". Why is it that "god" could not have made evolution possible? I don't pretend to know how we all got here. I am a small, infantisemal speck-I could no sooner grasp the big bang theory in my primitive human mind than I could grasp creationism. None of us will know for absolute certainty until the end. Personally, evolution makes more sense and there is a lot more supporting data for that than for creationism.

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Posted: 07-23-07 13:21pm

sillyakchick wrote:

Why is it that people think evolution has to exist seperately from "god". Why is it that "god" could not have made evolution possible? I don't pretend to know how we all got here. I am a small, infantisemal speck-I could no sooner grasp the big bang theory in my primitive human mind than I could grasp creationism. None of us will know for absolute certainty until the end. Personally, evolution makes more sense and there is a lot more supporting data for that than for creationism.

My hubby believe in God but he also believe in evolution. He feels they go hand in hand..

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Posted: 07-23-07 13:36pm

milletics wrote:

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Yes it would be. Even with irrefutable proof, religion would still deny science. Please take a college anthropology class and take it with an open mind.

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Posted: 07-23-07 13:38pm

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sillyakchick wrote:

My hubby believe in God but he also believe in evolution. He feels they go hand in hand..

There are many ways they can.

I would like to note that I do not believe that God and Evolution have to be separate. "Intelligent Design" is rather silly, but I believe that taking the real theory of evolution and the universe in general and saying god is up there sort of nudging things along is a rather fine stance to take. It's not mine, but I have no issue with it.

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Posted: 07-23-07 13:40pm


For the note, I wasn't actually typing "homosexual sapiens". That was an attack of the word filter. It doesn't like the word "homo".

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Posted: 07-23-07 13:43pm


ha ha that's funny! Homosexual=no progeny=no evolution at all!

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Posted: 07-23-07 13:45pm


There is actually an evolutionary way to explain homosexuality as well. I'd best get myself off this topic. I am not religious, I am scientific to the core, so I cannot conceive someone not believing something so OBVIOUS. It's like believing the Earth is flat... That's how dumb people sound to me when they don't believe evolution.