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To: steve harris who wrote (246295)	8/16/2005 10:08:31 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571802

>Do you really think man came from apes given enough time? Yes, and I'll let someone more articulate and with links like CJ explain... -Z

To: steve harris who wrote (246295)	8/16/2005 10:49:28 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571802

"What evidence is there of evolution other than "similarities"?" There is a lot of evidence. Humans have intentionally bred for certain characteristic in animals and plants for thousands of years. Look at dogs, a Chihuahua and an Irish Wolfdog are the same species by any definition in use today. Yet they differ in mass by orders of magnitudes. Insects develop resistance to pesticides, bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics. Virii develop new ways to circumvent the immune system. Or, what the heck, look at humans. Humans are the same species, yet look at the different races. Compare a pygmy with a Watusi. Or an Australian Aborigini to a European. Or to a Mayan. If you believe in the literal inerrancy of the Bible, we are all descended from Noah and his immediate family. So all of the varieties of humans arose in somewhat less than 6000 years if you take the Creation to have occurred in 4004 BC(maybe 4500 years). So if those kind of changes can occur in 4k years, +/-, what can occur in millions? FWIW, according to current evolutionary theory, we didn't descend from apes. Both we and the apes descended from some common ancestor.

To: steve harris who wrote (246295)	8/17/2005 12:44:56 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571802

But there's no evidence for creationism other than the Bible. What evidence is there of evolution other than "similarities"? Do you really think man came from apes given enough time? Seems to me it takes Someone mighty powerful to create something from nothing. That's enough reasoning for me. That's what I don't understand.....why you guys think evolution is the lesser of ID? To create DNA, to establish an ecology.....the rainforests, the water currents, the sun, the wind, the jet streams........essentially the terraforming of the earth. Not just making it happen but making it in such a way that it works to keep everyone alive. That all the pieces fall together and work together to support each other..........it is a far greater miracle than ID......and it makes rational/scientific sense. Even if science could support ID, it is so much the lesser theory.