[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by Blueblaze

It goes back much farther than fishes becoming mammals. It goes all the way back to stars becoming planets, and atoms becoming stars.

If the 98% DNA we share with chimpanzees isn't enough to prove that, if we didn't evolve from chimps, we at least had a common ancestor, than what's your explanation? Random chance? God "poofed" everything into existence simultaneously 6,000 years ago because you think your holy book says so? (It doesn't, by the way). Do you have any inkling of the number of atoms involved? Try to imagine the trillions upon trillions of coincidences that would be necessary for that to happen! And then try to explain why a significant portion of your DNA is also identical to that found in insects and jellyfish!

The question isn't whether evolution is a fact. The question is how all of those coincidences could happen without a plan. Evolution doesn't disprove God, any more than understanding how an airplane works disproves flight. The astounding level of coincidence necessary for evolution to work is the best evidence that, not only does He exist, he's the ultimate engineer!

Why do people expect a book written for people living when Ramses II was alive to be scientifically accurate 3,000 years later? A holy book, even one dictated by God himself, doesn't have to be scientifically precise in order to be true. You've heard of parables, right? The creation story wasn't written to explain quantum mechanics. It was written to explain why people behave so badly. Even the story itself isn't contextually consistent on its face. Where did Cain and Able's wives come from? Not important to the story, so it's not included -- just like the details of how God created Man from dust -- star dust, over about 4 billion years.

You obviously have me confused with someone else.