Science, Creation & EvolutionEvolutionjmc5682 wrote:It hasn't stopped and we are still evolving. We are living longer and sublte changes are happening. Evolution takes place over millions of years. Did you know that the human genetic code is very similiar to that of some primates. The fossil record does show animals chaning. Why do you think we have a tailbone? I know your opinion differs. I choose the way of science. You go by the Bible. Maybe there is some way to two are correlated. That I would be very interested in exploring. Maybe one does not have to be exclusive from the others. There are so many unanswered questions.
Got to go for today. Have a good one LindaBee
Life expectancy has nothing to do with evolution, unless you want to address the evolution of knowledge. In 1900 the life expectancy of an adult was 47.3 years, in 2000 it was 77.2 years. Now, since 1900 medical science has made major advances in treating disease. My great grandmother died from complications due to diabetes, today with proper diet, and/or insulin early deaths due to diabetes is less of a problem. We don’t have to deal with small pox, polio, influenza epidemics, bubonic plague, etc. Add the fact we eat more nutritious foods, and suffer from less industrial accidents and you have the cause of this increase in life expectancy.
You made the statement “The fossil record does show animals changing.” Yes it does, however, it does not show animals evolving from one species to another. There is no fossil record of an intermediate reptile evolving into a mammal. Do a Google search using “intermediate” or “transitional fossils” and you will find some good references that back me up.
As to the similarities in DNA found in humans and apes: Evolutionists' advancement of homology as evidence for evolution is invalid not only at the morphological level, but also at the molecular level. Evolutionists say that the DNA codes, or the corresponding protein structures, of different living species are similar, and that this similarity is evidence that these living species have evolved from common ancestors, or else from each other. For example, it is regularly stated in the evolutionist literature that "there is a great similarity between the DNA of a human and that of an ape," and this similarity is presented as a proof for the evolutionist claim that there is an evolutionary relationship between man and ape.
We must make it clear from the start that it is no surprise that living creatures on the earth should possess very similar DNA structures. Living things' basic life processes are the same, and since human beings possess a living body, they cannot be expected to have a different DNA structure to other creatures. Like other creatures, human beings develop by consuming carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins, oxygen circulates through the blood in their bodies, and energy is produced every second in each of their cells by the use of this oxygen.
For this reason, the fact that living things possess genetic similarities is no proof of the evolutionist claim that they evolved from a common ancestor. If evolutionists want to prove their theory of evolution from a common ancestor, then they have to show that creatures alleged to be each other's common ancestors have a direct line of descent in their molecular structures; in fact, however, as we shall shortly be examining, there have been no concrete discoveries showing any such thing.
http://www.darwinismrefuted.com/myht_of ... gy_04.html
You can read the rest for yourself.
The Bible is not a science textbook. However, it does agree with science in many ways. The order of creation follows the geological record; the Bible says God gathered the seas into one place and the land in one place. Science has named this original continent Pangaea. The Bible says all mankind are descended from Adam and Eve, do a Google search using “mitochondrial mother” to study the validity of this statement. Many fundamentalists get so lost in proving the age of the earth using the Bible they forget why we have the Bible and it is not to prove the age of the earth.
In Genesis the six days of creation are indicated with this phrase: “And the evening and the morning were the (1st, 2nd, etc.) day.” The Hebrew word translated “day” is “yowm”. OT:3117
yowm (yome); from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), [often used adverb]:
KJV - age, + always, + chronicals, continually (-ance), daily, ([birth-], each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever (-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+age), (full) year (-ly), + younger.
(Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.)
Yowm can be properly translated “eon”. We speak of the “day of the Lord”, “day of reckoning”, the day of whatever adjective you care to insert. Evening and morning could refer to the opening and closing of an undetermined period of time. It is interesting to note that the seventh day as recorded in Scripture does not include the phrase: “And the evening and the morning were the seventh day.” Therefore we can understand this to mean we are still living in God’s seventh day of rest, which will continue until He creates a new heaven and a new earth. There is also internal evidence in the Bible that could indicate that Genesis 1:2 ff is a recreation, not the original creation of the earth and heavens. The Hebrew for created from nothing “bara” appears in only three verses in Genesis 1, vs. 1, 21, and 27.
I will leave it to others to debate evolution and creationism vs. an ancient age theory for the universe since the purpose of the Bible is to teach us the character, nature, and purposes of God and to proclaim Jesus Christ, whose coming is first prophesized in Genesis 3.
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