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Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric:
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Originally posted by Alexander:
We didn't evolve from apes - Darwin's whole idea was that there was a "missing link", from which man and apes both evolved. Apes are not our ancestors, they are our cousins. And that's why they're still around.
Creationism has enough holes to put Swiss cheese to shame, so for now, I think I'll stick with evolution.
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The problem with the "missing link" theory is that it is just that - MISSING. Despite Darwin's theory...no bona fide evidence has EVER been found of this "missing link". Scientists have discovered skeletal remains that pre-date and post-date the "link", but have never found any remains that could conclusevily be classified as the heralded "missing link"
AFA the "holes" in Creationism, please specify them. If there are so many,then it shouldn't be hard to list them.
The fact is, there is just as much documentation to support Creationism as there is Evolution...but since the documentation for Creationism is a religious text, then it is rejected out-of-hand.
For those who may not know (or can't tell), I belong to the "deeply religious" segment. Here is a link to a Christian website's answer to several questions concerning Evolution vs Creationism.
Evolution vs Creation[/QUOTE]Well, belief in Creationism is started by taking the Bible literally - at its word. If it says "God created the world in 6 days", by Jove, he did it in 6 days, not 7 days, and certainly not millions of years.
Going by that "logic", if you take the Bible literally (as you would with Creationism), it lists the ages of certain people going all the way back to Adam. Add up the number of years these people lived, and according to the Bible, you should get an accurate age of the Earth.
The problem with this is that if you do that, you find that the Earth is about 4-5 thousand years old, give or take a few hundred years. Yet there is a plethora of evidence to indicate that it is much, much older than this (do the words "dinosaur" and "carbon-dating" come to mind?).
So, in order to avoid conflicting with known FACTS, one cannot take the Bible totally and absolutely literally. So, then, why should one take it totally and absolutely literally when it says that God created the world in 6 days, etc., etc.?