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Originally posted by winofiend
Originally posted by smyleegrl
I'm agnostic, but I've always wondered why people have such a hard time resolving creationism and evolution.
What if evolution is a god's creative act? In other words....evolution as the process by which a creator creates?
Because it's a cop out. For god to exist he must be omnipotent and made the world in 6 days.
But that doesn't sit well with people these days, so rather than argue an unwinnable argument they change the rules.
Now it's a case of god hasn't finished yet. Not rested on the 7'th day.
Well it still makes it all a sham.
Religion is fine and dandy. God is groovy and cool. But it's all man made.
What if evolution is a god's creative act? In other words....evolution as the process by which a creator creates?
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by smyleegrl
That's a lazy way to reconcile the two, unless you can prove that evolution is a divine process.
The creator is not mindfully making choices about how life forms should emerge, but rather, the life forms are responding to the presence of a creative force in unique ways. So this life force, our innermost essence, inhabited the material world which reacted freely to it.
I believe life is inevitable. I believe that life was in the making, built into the system, from the start.
I think awareness, or whatever, exists independently of what we call, "animate life" almost like it is the 11 dimensional space itself or either what matter really is in its essence. And I think this awareness connects us all.
The more I write, the more I want to call awareness, "space".
Originally posted by Jauk3
In the context of human evolution, human vestigiality involves those characters (such as organs or behaviors) occurring in the human species that are considered vestigial—in other words having lost all or most of their original function through evolution. Although structures usually called "vestigial" often appear functionless, a vestigial structure may retain lesser functions or develop minor new ones.[1] In some cases, structures once identified as vestigal simply had an unrecognized function.[2]
The examples of human vestigiality are numerous, including the anatomical (such as the human appendix, tailbone, wisdom teeth, and inside corner of the eye), the behavioral (goose bumps and palmar grasp reflex), sensory (decreased olfaction), and molecular (junk DNA). Many human characteristics are also vestigial in other primates and related animals..
Human Vestigiality
The concept of vestigiality applies to genetically determined structures or attributes that have apparently lost most or all of its ancestral function in a given species. Assessment of the vestigial status must generally rely on comparison with homologous features in related species. The emergence of vestigiality occurs by normal evolutionary processes, typically by loss of function of a feature that is no longer subject to positive selection pressures when it loses its value in a changing environment. More urgently the feature may be selected against when its function becomes definitely harmful. Typical examples of both types occur in the loss of flying capability in island-dwelling species.
Vestigiality
We have various organs which we don't use or we still have a small part of that organ, like our third eye lid, our tail bone, appendix, wisdom teeth, etcetera. Why would God create us with these unused body parts which serve no purpose in our body?
Let me guess,''God made it that way to test to see if you would still believe in him'' or ''the devil created it to decieve you''
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by guitarplayer
Nothing developed independently, and no scientist would assert such a thing. Everything is dependent on it's environment. Evolution occurs partly due to changes in the environment and partly because of random mutation. If the random mutation serves in the survival of an animal it will survive in it's given environment.