Whatever. The remnants of our forebears’ lives can be pieced together into various patterns. I don’t buy the 6k theory, which was thought up by some guy, but that our existence arose merely from the arrangement of atoms into complex molecules, is even more ridiculous. Consider the simplicity of reading, thinking and posting, how it all flows through the will, and everything that can go wrong. You honestly think this just happened? Really?
This really boils down to an argument from incredulity, with a good deal of strawman involved. First of all, just because you have a hard time imagining something doesn’t really determine whether it is a legitimate claim or not. To many people Quantum mechanics seems counterintuitive if not outright fantastical (no less than Einsten himself was resistant, calling it “spooky action at a distance”), but in the end, it describes aspects of nature very well.
The strawman comes into acting as if evolution acts in some great leap, that the ability to do mathematics somehow just happened all at once, and that’s not how it happened at all. A great many organisms are capable of doing at least simple forms of arithmetic, and one can imagine the survival advantage of even being able to do quick calculations as to prey or predator. By the same token, even among H. sapiens, you’re going to be surprised to find out that some cultures have pretty rudimentary counting systems. Some, like the San Bushmen of Africa, don’t really have number systems that go beyond ten, mainly because they don’t need to. And the fact is that our closest relatives have brains that work a great deal like ours, which is what one would expect if we were both descended from a common ancestor.
Evolution is a process that has taken 4 billion years, step by step. There are no great leaps. Innovation is an illusion of time. Look at the tetrapod body form. There are thousands of species that use this form, and they all possess a similar set of HOX genes, and yet within that body form is an enormous amount of variation, but that variation didn’t spring all it once, and in fact took hundreds of millions of years, generation by slow generation.
At the end of the day it is up to you to square things away. I view evolution is as close to a fact as anything in science, with a vast body of research and evidence, whereas literal interpretations of Genesis come off absurd, to the point that it’s hard for me to fathom why anyone would want to misuse the Bible in such a way.
