I hope that you do not believe that life arose from non-life. God is a living God, so if He created life on earth then life arose from life.
That is the crux of you argument? The god of BUC is simpler?
Google “Occam’s Razor”. The simplest sufficient explanation is preferred. There is no point in adding unnecessary complexity to a solution.
For how long have we been intelligent and rational? 4000 years? 40,000 years? Or more?
About a couple of years back my wife and I were out shopping and, would you believe it, someone had set up a flat earth exhibition on a street corner. Hey, I thought. This’ll be interesting. So my wife headed off to the shops and I wandered over for a chat to these guys. Asked them things like why we couldn’t see the North Star from Australia and why the moon is upside down in London compared to the view in Sydney. We had a nice discussion.Buzzard3:
There are many things I am smart enough to not say right now. However, I will say that throughout this thread, all you have done is ridicule evidence, then ignore any refutation of your claims. You defend whatever your theory is without question or open mind, something you accuse us of despite never actually addressing any of the problems in your theory, all while we address the issues you see in ours.
Your last line of defense is to repeatedly call it “mythical” and "fairy-tale"ish because you’ve finally run out of evidence, or at least it appears so. The fun part about being right is we could go on all day debunking your arguments without resorting to other strategies, but it appears you cannot.
I at least hope others see through the charade.
I have my reasons. Perhaps I’m kidding myself. Don’t think there’s a way to really know. In any case, I’ll keep doing what I’ve done, because I have no real reason to give up.
Yet you claim to “know” how life evolved.
The Cambrian explosion is an obvious example of God leaving his “fingerprints” in the rocks, but theistic Darwinists seem determined to deny this evidence of special creation.
I’m smart enough to know that it’s pointless offering a theory for what is unknowable. I’m happy to let the unknowable remain what it will always be – a mystery.
So, the fact that the human heart, for example, initially forms a embryological “primordial heart tube” is evidence that humans evolved from fish. Wow, talk about quack science. If we apply your logic to other structures, we can conclude that the first houses built by man consisted of only foundations – a masterpiece of deduction.
This is a bit vague - Christians have very different beliefs about the origin of life - some Christians believe in a literal six days of creation, for example
That’s tells me next to nothing about how the human eye evolved. Darwinists love vague answers when it comes to the actual nuts-and-bolts of how novel organs evolved - such vague answers are code for “All I know is, evolution dunnit” - ie, blind faith.
I would imagine the creator was present at every step of his creation. He did not set the machines rolling and come back a million years later to see what they produced.
I think science how zero chance of explaining what process was responsible for the history of life on earth.
How do you know what the genetic landscape was like millions of years ago? You seem to assume is was exactly the same as it is today. Thousands of years of animal and plant breeding suggest that genus-genus evolution is impossible. It could be that the evolutionary process God used before Adam has ceased.
Genetic similarities don’t prove Darwin’s tree of common descent is a fact.
The Cambrian explosion and other conspicuous gaps in the fossils record look like the result of a “natural process”? You could have fooled me!
What “natural process” was responsible for the existence of the human brain?
All Christians believe that their God is a living God. All Christians also believe that their God is eternal. Hence all Christians believe that life is eternal; life has always existed because the living God has always existed.
How do you think the first life-forms come to exist? Were the created by a god, or did they appear naturally?
Keeping it vaguerossum:
such vague answers are code for “All I know is, evolution dunnit” - ie, blind faith.
We have a really good guess.
Or, just a thought…it’s not a problem for evolutionary theory, your sources lied, and you’re the one who can’t let it go.
Yeah, intelligence is giving up when so many clues are staring us right in the face.
No, it’s a direct refutation to your claim that heart evolution was impossible. It’s not evidence for evolution, it’s a refutation of your claim against it.
Okay, let me explain this for you. Evolution doesn’t happen in an environment which completely lacks selective pressures. Cultivated plants and animals have their every need catered to, and are only selectively bred for certain characteristics, so they’re not cut off from other members of their species long enough to diverge. There is no reason for cultivated crops or animals to evolve, and you not realizing that is even more evidence that you’re running short on ideas.
Nothing proves it. It points to such a reality, though, along with all the other evidence.
Fixed that for you.
All chordates have brains. It’s just the central processing unit of the animal. Our evolutionary ancestors with larger brains were better able to survive because we are a relatively weak species that evolved in a very competitive and harsh environment. Bigger brains gave us the ability to create fire, which gave us the ability to grow even bigger brains because we finally had the energy. Tool use and learning by example are common traits among certain animal groups like primates and corvids. We just took it a step further because our bodies, already adapted to life in grassland, happened to be conducive to fire and tool use.
If we assume that this is a 100% correct source with no motivations, biases, or flaws whatsoever, I would simply say that the reason many insects suddenly appear is that insects aren’t preserved well, so we are just missing many prehistoric insect species.
Simple mutations change the body’s development instructions on how to link together blood vessels in embryonic development. These new hearts provided survival advantages to Amphibians and, later, mammals, so they were kept. Things like extra heart valves and tissues are well documented among modern humanity, and our species is very young. There’s no reason that other, older prehistoric animal species could have changed this way as well.
You must be reading really old sources, because ancestors to vertebrates have been found all over the world and are a well-documented group. Most appeared to have small, semi-formed backbones composed of cartilage rather than bone, which likely hardened as a result of a mutation to form jawless fish, the very first vertebrates.
Life has always existed in the Buddhist universe.
What is the difference - given God is the first cause of everything?
Do you think Adam and Eve’s parents were disappointed when they got kicked out of the Garden of Eden ?
I wish that contemporary science would go with the least complex possibility and that would be Almighty God as the Intelligent Designer.