by worldtraveller 22 Replies latest jw friends
>>"Well if we can trace our DNA etc, back we would find that we all descended from the same female.
Be careful with this one. It's not as simple as it seems. Hint: The single female that we are all today descended from, lived in a population that was ALSO descended from a single female. And even she had a mother. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve)
Dave
Pretty easy questions. One can believe that people came from two common ancestors and not believe in evolution with no conflict. You would first have to define what you mean by "evolution," as it is used in wildly different meanings. If you mean change or adaptability, then such a belief would be hard to reconcile. If you mean the theory of human origin, then the difference between 3 or 4 skin colors and all of us evolving from lower life forms is obviously two different things and the former is not in conflict while the latter would be.
The second question is based on a shoddy premise. Your implication is that we have to meet someone before we know what their name is. Now, suppose an alien were to land and leave the earth before anyone saw him, but while he was here he left a photograph of himself with his name spelled in English. Even though no human would meet him, we would know what his name is, no? Also, the teaching is merely that no human has met God, not that no person has met God. People have met angels in the Bible who can be assumed to have met God. Pretty simple, no?
African people come from Africa.
No, really... think about it.
On a similar note, about 10 years ago I sold some GPS equipment to some prominent evolutionary researchers who were headed to Africa to continue a dig. They worked on the Lucy site... I asked them about their work... the people I talked to did not believe in evolution.
Interesting, eh?
samiam2b
Interesting, eh?
samiam2b
Got a point? Or you just like to string random words together?
On a similar note, about 10 years ago I sold some GPS equipment to some prominent evolutionary researchers who were headed to Africa to continue a dig. They worked on the Lucy site... I asked them about their work... the people I talked to did not believe in evolution.
Huh?
An evolutionary researcher that doesn't believe in evolution?
African people come from Africa.
No, really... think about it.
Not sure what your point is/was.
Yeah African people come from Africa, are you trying to say that only African people come from Africa and not the human race on the whole?
That those characteristics that make them African are adaptations to their environment?
Thanks for the interesting responses. I wasn't wondering how Africans lived in Africa based on their skin, etc. I was actually wondering how these people were able to migrate thousands of miles,thousands of years before they invented plane travel, cars, etc. Seems hard to travel thousands of miles so long ago. I think there is much more to the story, that we can only speculate. Sort of like how people could build pyramids with absolutely no technology and be able to aim the stairs parallel to the equinox shadow. Aliens, maybe? So The Creator is not male. Someone added the name Jehovah. It's odd to me that ppl refer to someone that isn't human and has not identified itself with a male label. I think I will call electricity-James.Also an invisible power. Makes about as much sense (maybe more as James last name was Watt.) My JW friend says all species just simply appeared . Then just as quickly vanished. Time for a trip to the past with my way back machine.
That reminds me of the movie-The Time Machine. An interesting story.
You can find some really tasty food for thought if you go to pbs.org. There are a lot of thoughty program transcripts from Nova. Cracking the Ice Ige, Map of Human Migration, and I remember seeing one program on how the continents were once a solid landmass and how they broke apart. Don't remember title of that. But it gave very plausible explanation of origin of races.
I think you are hitting the nail on the head. I have often looked at a globe and noticed that all the continents seem to fit together like a jig saw puzzle. But with no water, and some terrifying earthquakes, the likes we have never seen, it's hard to imagine anything that could live during that time. If you believe in creation, the world just showed up and all was as it is now. An unlikely story, unless you are an uneducated JW-hmmm.
