How can you not believe in Evolution?

Australia
February 11, 2007 8:34am CST
If God created Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden... Does that mean that Adam and Eve were Arabs? If all humans are the direct descendants of Adam and Eve... How do you explain the different races on Earth? Didn't those different races surfaced through evolution?
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@Thomas73 (1467)
• Switzerland
11 Feb 07
This isn't the only point that defies both observed facts and logic. Think about it: Jesus was a Jew, so why are most of his 'followers' today non-Jews? The Bible was written by many 'authors' at various points in history, so why do people believe that this is 'the word of God' despite many parts of this book contradicting each other? Now watch the god-freaks jump into your discussion and tell you that God created all those human variants, just like He created the different languages when the tower of Babel was being built -- and also watch your star rating getting shot down in flames! ;)
@jricbt (1454)
• Brazil
15 Feb 07
Agre entirely. On a side note: If I contest the god-freaks (loved the expression) they will rate me with a '-'? WOW, I will start doing it even more than I already do.
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• Brazil
15 Feb 07
Pua-pua-pua-puauauauaua! I loved this comment!
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@aaroux3 (110)
• Philippines
11 Feb 07
even the greats scientists cannot argue the fact the life is created by a higher being. with so many complexities of life forms, evolution played a great part but if you are thinking in a wholistic view, creation of life cannot still be proven scientifically.
@jricbt (1454)
• Brazil
15 Feb 07
Science has a lot of hipothesis about abiogenesis. And if there are a lot fo scientific debate about which one is better, what is the problem? Do you prefer the absolute truths (false as they may be) that religion give?
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@Thomas73 (1467)
• Switzerland
11 Feb 07
How wrong you are! Science has indeed proven that there was no need for the intervention of any external entity to explain life. But I won't waste my time going into details, as your mind's obviously already set in the concret of ignorance.
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@owens07 (325)
• Puerto Rico
12 Feb 07
What does science have to say about abiogenesis? No scientific controversy with respect to the evolution of the cell, right?
@Zebrochka (333)
• Brazil
15 Feb 07
The are other religions that explain the racian differences among people much better than the Christian religion. For example hinduism.
• United States
18 Feb 07
It can be explained bibically. In Genesis, Noah is said to have had three sons -- Shem, Ham and Japeth. Any analysis of human ethnology must begin here, and not in the Garden of Eden, because Adam and Eve were radically different human beings genetically. They had staggering live spans averaging 900 years and more, interbred with quasi-spiritual beings and basically poisoned the gene pool to the extent that God simply wiped them out with a flood. And there were no oceans at the time of Adam and Eve, just a "firmament" that enveloped and protected the planet (like a permanent, high-altitude cloud layer). The flood was, in essence, the collapse of this firmament and the formation of oceans, which have been shown to be much younger than scientists are prone to admit. People of African descent have traditionally been referred to as "Hamites," or descendants of Ham. Caucasians are widely regarded by biblical scholars as "Japites," or descendants of Japeth. And Asians, Jews and Arabs are of the same stock, "Shemites," or "semites" where the term "antisemitism" originates. As for evolution, humans just haven't been around long enough for much of that to occur. But evidence does not necessarily back evolution, and actually more reinforces a "creation model" and a much younger earth than scientists have thus far admitted.
• Australia
18 Feb 07
Wooaaa! Now we have something to talk about... I hope lots of people see your post... You realise of course... that you cannot have any form of life without water... Are you saying that we do not descend from Adam and Eve? Because God wiped them out and all their descendants with the great flood?
@owens07 (325)
• Puerto Rico
16 Feb 07
Interesting point. What does common descent mean to you as part of the theory of evolution?
@owens07 (325)
• Puerto Rico
12 Feb 07
I think when people state that they don't believe in evolution, they're referring to macroevolution. And of course you're already familiar with that term and won't have to go look it up. what controversial mechanism of evolution to you embrace by the way?