At what stage in
human evolution did the modern races evolve?
The task, for example, of grafting the history of salvation onto to the phylogenetic tree of
human evolution does not belong to the teaching office of the Church.
The account of the players and theories in the field of
human evolution does highlight how much of the debate involves mere name games, with lumpers and splitters arguing ad nauseam about the same few specimens widely scattered through space and time.
In
humans evolution does care about ages 50 - 70.
Not exact matches
You're talking about the type of «
evolution» that we always knew existed and to make matters worse you're bragging about the advancements made by INTELLIGENT
HUMAN BEINGS which still don't even come close to the complication of macro
evolution but still required thousands of years of scientific advancement and knowledge and a team of researchers with high iq's working aroudn the clock with microscopes.
It is part and parcel of Ham's argument that it was 6, 24 - hour days, that god
did this 6,000 365 - day - years ago, that
humans did not evolve /
evolution does not take place.
Atheists aren't innocent either: eugenics, the belief that certain races
do not deserve to live because they could hinder the
evolution of the
human species.
Many who believe in
evolution assert that God
does not exist or that he will not intervene in
human affairs.
The concept of God
did not spring out of thin air - intelligent
humans created him and then thousands of years later used the idea to explain what they
did not understand and / or like about
evolution.
Technophobe,: Christians, Muslims and Jews
do believe in micro-
evolution (the
evolution inside species) but none of these religions believe in evolutionist macro
evolution, the
evolution of organisms changing species (ie, fish turning into reptiles, then turning to
humans)
By extension, evolving from less advanced life forms is distasteful to those same individuals, as that necessitates a point in
evolution at which
humans are not really
humans at all in the modern sense, which then brings up problems such as «
do slugs go to heaven?»
I don't have to use my imagination to know that we have endless evidence showing the
evolution of many types of species, including
humans.
Please
do your research on the subject matter, as there is much more to learn about
human evolution.
But I want to respond to people throwing out examples such as: The
human body is too complex to have formed from
evolution or where
did the universe come from, both must have come from god because none of you can explain it.
How
do Adam and Eve relate to what we have learned about the
evolution of modern
humans from Australopithecus afarensis and Homo habilis?
Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in
Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I
do not believe in hell but I
do believe in Satan, I
do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «
Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I
do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I
do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.
Of course the sequencing is not quite right, because the poem was written / inspired (take your pick) before science
did its work.But the intuitive observer could see a clear
evolution form plants to animals to
human life, with continuities and differentiations.
Let me help Nathan out a bit... Christ, if you are a medical student as still think that the theory of
evolution claims that the
human body happened «randomly,» please leave school now and
do not endanger people's lives.
The English honey bee was in fact Natural Selection and all Hitler
did was attempt to replicate that
evolution in
humans; through intellegent design, such as the horse.
actually you
do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us
humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated
evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang
Yeah but they want to teach the controversy... you know, how the earth might be only 10,000 years old (no it isn't) and that
humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth together (no they didn't) and that
evolution has no evidence (yes it
does) or that there was a global flood (no there wasn't) or that the earth might be flat or the center of the universe or a million other wrong headed theories that fly in the face of the evidence.
(Answers: 1) because they lived and died millions of years before
humans and extant forms; 2) because
humans and dinosaurs never coexisted; 3) this simply didn't happen, but the creationist response is apparently, and ironically, «hyper -
evolution» from severely bottle - necked gene pools; and 4) because we share a common ancestor with egg - laying organisms)
Of course we know that this
evolution was promoted by
humans but it doesn't really matter.
It
does make possible a quantum jump in the degree to which humankind can take control of the evolutionary process, including the
evolution of
human beings.
Evolution is just an
human abstraction to attempt understanding some real phenomena, following an ideological determination to
do it in purely materialist and mechanicist terms.
So how
do those who deny
evolution explain the
human remains found in archaeological digs, having been radio - carbon dated, in some cases over two million years?
Evolution has nothing to
do with understanding
human emotions or sociological explanations for how people live.
First, you sound a little unsure about how a computer works, and secondly nuclear energy has nothing to
do with
evolution, unless you are looking into creating mutant
humans and animals.
Organisms with a spine
do not automatically become
human,
human isn't the goal of vertebrate
evolution.
What I'm really going to
do is to rid the gene pool of its 10,000 worst contributors, in an effort to speed up the
evolution of the
human race (yes: I made the system automatic, so that I didn't have to bother diddling with it at every moment: Darwin was right, but the process turned out slower than I expected, and I got bored, hence the urge to speed things up a tad).
It
does take faith in
evolution because that is not a repeatable experiment in relation to
human existence.
For Bergson, like many process thinkers (Peirce, James and Dewey come particularly to mind), the entire concept of «necessity» only makes sense when applied internally to abstractions the intellect has already devised.11 Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the
human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson
does in Creative
Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it
did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270).
As reason sets
human beings apart from all other animals, it seems that our rational nature can not be explained by
evolution alone, for we
do not find stages of lesser reflective selfconsciousness before the
human species but
evolution requires only gradual changes at a time.
The
Evolution of Adam: What the Bible
Does and Doesn't Say About
Human Origins by Peter Enns — This book came along and just the right time for me.
The onward drive of «
Evolution'therefore,
does not lie in material mutation, nor in any fundamental change to
human nature and its laws of good and true.
Oh, next time I go to the zoo, I'll say HI to some of your relatives that didn't evolve Mr. Catholic Christian believing in «An evolving creation»; where the principles of biological and social
evolution are indeed part of the design of an intelligent creator who is NOT all powerful and not «NICE» in the
Human context, but «benevolent» at a cosmic scale.
The term moderate
evolution might therefore be applied to a theory which simply inquires into the biological reality of man in accordance with the formal object of the biological sciences as defined by their methods and which affirms a real genetic connection between that
human biological reality and the animal kingdom, but which also in accordance with the fundamental methodological principles of those sciences, can not and
does not attempt to assert that it has made a statement adequate to the whole reality of man and to the origin of this whole reality.
According to
evolution things are made by themselves things just happen by chance to say that
evolution knew than
humans would need to eat to survive suggests that something would have to know this are they considering
evolution is a thinking force that knows what a creature needs to
do to adapt ti certain things or that
evolution knew that spiders needed to make webs to catch flies?
The
Evolution of Adam: What the Bible
Does and Doesn't Say About
Human Origins by Peter Enns (see my review)
To get a proper and adequate understanding of
human freedom, one has to see man in the total context of
evolution, for freedom
did not start with man; it had its evolutionary roots at the infrahuman level.
Nor
does this theory provide any clear answer to the question: Now that further
evolution in man is partially subject to his conscious control, toward what goals should he influence future
human development?
I maintained that, contrary to the commonly expressed or tacitly accepted view, the era of active
evolution did not end with the appearance of the
human zoological type: for by virtue of his acquirement of the gift of individual reflection Man displays the extraordinary quality of being able to totalize himself collectively upon himself, thus extending on a planetary scale the fundamental vital process which causes matter, under Certain conditions, to organize itself in elements which are ever more complex physically, and psychologically ever more centrated.
How come we still have monkey's... I guess they
do not get CNN saying they have evolved... The only solution is that gay marriage will pass and everyone becomes gay and that will solve the problem of the
evolution atheist debate since the
human race will be extinct.
But it is here, in my view, that the importance becomes manifest of an intuitive notion which, timidly evolved less than fifty years ago by a small group of
human minds, is now beginning to pervade twentieth century thought as rapidly as
did the idea of
evolution in the nineteenth century.
It seems to me that both Bergson and Peirce had the insight that the cosmos, including
human languages,
does involve
evolution from past to future that expands reality.
Has nothing to
do with actual fossils that demonstrate an
evolution of a single species over time; whether dogs, cats, monkeys, birds, or
humans.
We
do not deny or circumscribe the Creator, because we hold he has created the self - acting originating
human mind, which has almost a creative gift; much less then
do we deny or circumscribe His power, if we hold that He gave matter such laws as by their blind instrumentality moulded and constructed through innumerable ages the world as we see it... Mr Darwin's theory need not then be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of Divine Prescience and Skill... At first sight I
do not see that «the accidental
evolution or organic beings» is inconsistent with divine design - It is accidental to us, not to God.»
The
Evolution of Adam: What the Bible
does and doesn't say about
human origins By Peter Enns.
Generis: «For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church
does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of
human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of
evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the
human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» [italics added].
If it is true that, bound by the collective interaction of its liberties, the
human social group can not escape from certain irreversible laws of
evolution,
does this mean that, observed along its axis of «greatest complexity» (i.e. increasing liberty) the World is coiling upon itself with as much sureness as it is in other respects radiating outwards and explosively expanding?