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I am not a science student and and am totally uninformed about evolution. I'm just curious about how the science experts will respond to this post.
I'm an old-earth creationist. I am not a vehement Bible-thumper against evolution - I think Scripture allows for both positions pretty well - but I would like to express a couple of reasons for preferring creationism.
I believe that all consciousness, including sensations of pain, requires a soul. In my understanding, God plants a soul in every creature and traps it with His own hand inside its body, preventing escape. Since He is therefore involved very intimately with His creatures, I find it a bit unlikely that He took a mostly-spectator approach to speciation, as evolution would seem to suggest. However, this is not my strongest reason for creationism. I find the issue of gender a bit more weighty.
In other words I am particularly skeptical about the evolution of gender, especially in humans. Heterosexual reproduction doesn't seem possible unless male and female are both fully developed. Let's suppose the male reproductive system has already evolved x-number of years ago. Assuming evolution is typically slow, it's not likely that the female reproductive system would have, coincidentally, fully evolved by that same year, and thus reproduction fails, it seems to me. Hence the species dies out, I should think. I'm also skeptical that the male and female reproductive systems would evolve by any means since - with reproduction being slow - the mutations last/persist only if they provide a "selective advantage," and I imagine it unlikely that they would do so.
To summarize, it seems to me it takes an incredible amount of faith to believe in the evolution of gender, especially humans with all their complexities such as romance, puberty, hormones, plus the differences in voice, anatomical shape, and muscular strength. Am I mistaken?
I'm an old-earth creationist. I am not a vehement Bible-thumper against evolution - I think Scripture allows for both positions pretty well - but I would like to express a couple of reasons for preferring creationism.
I believe that all consciousness, including sensations of pain, requires a soul. In my understanding, God plants a soul in every creature and traps it with His own hand inside its body, preventing escape. Since He is therefore involved very intimately with His creatures, I find it a bit unlikely that He took a mostly-spectator approach to speciation, as evolution would seem to suggest. However, this is not my strongest reason for creationism. I find the issue of gender a bit more weighty.
In other words I am particularly skeptical about the evolution of gender, especially in humans. Heterosexual reproduction doesn't seem possible unless male and female are both fully developed. Let's suppose the male reproductive system has already evolved x-number of years ago. Assuming evolution is typically slow, it's not likely that the female reproductive system would have, coincidentally, fully evolved by that same year, and thus reproduction fails, it seems to me. Hence the species dies out, I should think. I'm also skeptical that the male and female reproductive systems would evolve by any means since - with reproduction being slow - the mutations last/persist only if they provide a "selective advantage," and I imagine it unlikely that they would do so.
To summarize, it seems to me it takes an incredible amount of faith to believe in the evolution of gender, especially humans with all their complexities such as romance, puberty, hormones, plus the differences in voice, anatomical shape, and muscular strength. Am I mistaken?