Question for Creationists

P1234567890 · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject: Question for Creationists

I'd like to hear your answers for this one:

If God made each of the half-dozen human species discovered as fossils in ancient rocks, why did He create in an unbroken temporal sequence of progressively more modern features -increased cranial capacity, reduced face and teeth, larger body size?

Did He create in order to mimic evolution and thereby test our faith?
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RevJP · Moderator Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 6886 Location: USA

First you would have to demonstrate empiracally that the fossil record is an unbroken temporal sequence of progressively more modern features -increased cranial capacity, reduced face and teeth, larger body size.

Then you would have to demonstrate that those fossils are human and not some extinct lower form of life.

Then you ... oh never mind, you lost on the first one.
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theseldomscene · Banned Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 7817

milk is good for teeth and bones Razz

...maybe those guys just need to drink more milk Razz

P1234567890 · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:35 am Post subject:

Let me make my argument clear: here is an article about human evolution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution. Pay particular attention to the timeline.

For some reason, the cavemen / apemen that were around 7 million years ago had much larger brains than apes, but much smaler brains than us. The ones that were around 6 million years ago had even larger brains. The ones around 5 million years ago had even larger ones, and so on, until you get to us, with the largest brains.

Here is the question: you guys obviously believe that God created all of these different species. Why did He create them specifically in the order of increasing brain size? Why did He create them such that their similarity to us is a function of time (the older they are, the more different they are)?

Is this some kind of test of faith? Why would God create them in this specific order? He sure is trying to make it look like evolution happened!
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
-Blaise Pascal
"...with or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil -that takes religion..."
-Steven Weinberg
"I would bless my children with your destruction instead."
-Someone who shall remain anonymous.

cballard · Grizzly Bear Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 716 Location: WV

That God created the world is a fact. How he did it is open to debate and nature has a way of revealing facts. It goes back to the old Galieo and the Church affair. I'm not going to be damned to Hell if I don't know how God created the world am I?

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theseldomscene · Banned Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 7817

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Tiptronic · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:40 pm Post subject:

So living things change. Like viruses change and adapt over time. Maybe it was the way we were made- ability to adapt for the better of ourselves.

I still go along with the milk thing though.

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