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2+2 = 4, no matter how you feel.
I disagree. Our sense of morality, the 'gut feeling' we have that certain things are 'just wrong' (murder, selfishness, etc) have evolutionary origins: it is beneficial to a social species for its members to abhor, say, the murder of its members. Thus, our species evolved to consider murder 'wrong' (though cultural extremes can overcome this; death penalties exist in the US, Iran, etc.Morality is not a subject that is foreign to evolution.
Not everything legal is moral, nor illegal immoral. Otherwise there'd be no impetus to change the law.Morality is taught by justice systems in society. The concepts of "Don't do this" or "Don't do that" is essentially morality.
Unless, of course, it doesBefore the times of the bible, if you were to kill someone you would surely be punished. The central ideas of "Morality" predate the bible. Morality does not, however, predate humanity in the form of an all knowing God.
The Symphony of Science on YouTube is both beautiful and instructive, and contains remixed synths of quotes of famous scientists.It is true that there is no "Simple" cell. There are "Complex" organisms and "More complex" organisms. It is not impossible to evolve a cell. One percent of, say, an endoplasmic reticulum is far more beneficial than no endoplasmic reticulum at all.
In regards to the idea that evolution requires the "faith" that molecules came together to form cells, it is hardly as far a stretch as believing in creation.
If you want a basic version of the evolution of the first cell it goes like this: Hydrophobic molecules (Molecules that don't like water) and Hydrophile molecules (Molecules that like water).
They both came together through one end that liked water, and the other that did not in order to form the basis of a cell wall. Once enough of them were gathered, it formed a sort of shell, (much like a bubble but measured in micrometres) that had other molecules within it.
That very cell housed the ancestors of DNA. Once this had occurred, the history of life on Earth was half over. It took hundreds of millions of years for microscopic plants to develop, which produced oxygen through a process known as photosynthesis (Carbon Dioxide + Water {Reaction} Oxygen + Glucose). But this branch didn't lead to us.
It is difficult for creatures with a lifespan of 70 years to grasp the concept of a time frame of 70 million years, let alone 4 billion.
Those are some of the things that molecules do, given four billion years of evolution.
Look up "Carl Sagan Evolution" on youtube for a more comprehensive explanation if you'd please.
I'm not sure if you're a Creationist or what, but my own calculations of an exponentially growing population over 6000 years from two people to 6 billion people yields a growth constant of ~1.00364; that is, if the population grew by 3.64% per year, we would have 6 billion people today from two people who lived ~6000 years ago.evidently you don't understand the term "exponentially" by the nature of uncontrolled reproduction all life reproduces exponentially untill resources limit it. 10 percent growth is still exponential. And if one looks over the 200 plus generations there can easily be 6 billion... one of the questions is why there aren't more.
Meh, that's their choice.Some people think the world looks too designed, complex, etc, for there not to be a higher force.
How can you think too much? Surely the more you think the better, since you're more likely to learn?Even if I were an evolutionist, which I'm not, I'd wonder if the evidence for evolution was all in my head, that I think too much, and that I should just believe in God.
They look designed and complex, to a degree, I'll give you that.Creatures do look designed and are complex, there's no doubt about it.
Both of which have demonstrable evolutionary pathways.Many people use the eye as evidence for creation, but I'd just as easily point to the beating heart.
Perhaps, but it suffers from three great flaws.Any way, there's other reasons people believe in Creationism. I also think its better to believe in God, even if just so people may behave more nicely from the thought there's a God and we are here for a reason. It's a nice thought to live by.
I believe in creation because i dont believe somthing can come from nothing for no reason
the planets form over billions of years in the right places for life
I bealive it because i believe my life has a meaning you that your life has a meaning
and i think the odds of this happening by accident are very high even impossible, i believe that everything that had a beginning had a purpose.
God did not have a beginning and needs no purpose but decided to make us for his joy and love. The very fact you are alive from a few cells (thousands) which combined in your mother and formed you i believe is a miracle.
Im sure in another hundred years there will be completly new theorys to how the Earth and Life exists. as there was a hundred years ago. The only place that has a real explanation is the bible.
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