by truthseeker 18 Replies latest jw friends
This is big news from the Vatican. They now accept Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
It still doesn't explain why there are monkeys living today - surely they would have evolved by now into humans? Can anyone explain this?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5705331.ece
It still doesn't explain why there are monkeys living today - surely they would have evolved by now into humans? Can anyone explain this?
Anyone with a high school science education can answer that. Because we didn't evolve from monkeys, we have a common ancestor. We simply took different paths to evolving. Why haven't monkeys evolved into humans, because evolution is different in each species, for the chimpanzee that was their evolutionary path to evolve into. Humans merged two chromosomes from primates, if we did that for monkeys then eventually they would become more human, or they might not depending one what path they take. Bats and Squirels share a common ancestor, why haven't all squirels evolved into bats?
Evolution does indeed answer that, there are thousands of sources to read about evolution and 9/10ths of them will answer that.
Please learn how evolution works before questioning it with questions that are not just answered quickly but roundly laughed at.
Actually, Truthseeker, as this disclosure unfolds, expect to hear the mystery of the missing link.
Hominids were genetically manipulated by the Fallen Angels.
And these "Sons of God" will appear again to take mankind into the next quantum leap.
They will try to pull this off:
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Just remember....the dead are supposed to be raised first. Until you see THAT...don't believe anything they tell you. (Because they cannot raise the dead!)
Tuesday, you mean it's not a good idea to learn about science on internet forums?
Tuesday, you mean it's not a good idea to learn about science on internet forums?
I don't even care if you learn about evolution on an internet forum, just learn about it before making comments. The "why aren't monkeys evolved yet?" shows an absolute ignorance of the subject matter. Even thinking we evolved from monkeys shows a woeful lack of knowledge of the genus. We didn't evolve FROM monkeys, we ARE monkeys. Arg...you know what...if I don't stop now I never will.
> Anyone with a high school science education can answer that. Because we didn't evolve from monkeys, we have a common ancestor
Thanks! I was going to point that out too.
"Man from apes" = Myth
We have a common ancestor.
cameo, when i asked you before in your thread about the garden of eden or the annunaki performing experiments on people, you said you didnt believe all that. but here you are, essentially saying something awful close to that. just thought youd like to know.
Tuesday,
we didn't evolve from monkeys, we have a common ancestor. We simply took different paths to evolving.
You know I never thought about it from that perspective - a common ancestor with all its offspring evolving in various degrees. The Bible says that each reproduces according to its kind - apes breed apes, gorilla breed gorillas, humans breed humans, yet 97% of human DNA is also found in primates or is it the other way round?
I belive in macro evolution, that species can change and adapt but still reproduce according to their kind.
I watched a NOVA program a while ago about the Hobbit people of the island of Flores - thousands of years OLDER than Adam yet scientists came to the conclusion that they were another off-shoot of humanity.
RCC has a long history of embracing darwinism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_and_the_Roman_Catholic_Church
The International Theological Commission in a July 2004 statement endorsed by Cardinal Ratzinger
According to the widely accepted scientific account, the universe erupted 15 billion years ago in an explosion called the 'Big Bang' and has been expanding and cooling ever since. Later there gradually emerged the conditions necessary for the formation of atoms, still later the condensation of galaxies and stars, and about 10 billion years later the formation of planets. In our own solar system and on earth (formed about 4.5 billion years ago), the conditions have been favorable to the emergence of life. While there is little consensus among scientists about how the origin of this first microscopic life is to be explained, there is general agreement among them that the first organism dwelt on this planet about 3.5 - 4 billion years ago. Since it has been demonstrated that all living organisms on earth are genetically related, it is virtually certain that all living organisms have descended from this first organism. Converging evidence from many studies in the physical and biological sciences furnishes mounting support for some theory of evolution to account for the development and diversification of life on earth, while controversy continues over the pace and mechanisms of evolution. [10]
Tuesday,
Forgot to add in response to your comment "Anyone with a high school science education can answer that."
The only time I studied "evolution" in high school was back in the late 80s and as a born-in-the-truth witness I categorically refused to participate in evolution because we were taught that we descended from monkey's. Our science teacher even told us about the tail bone we had and how that used to be a tail.
I remember telling her I believed in creation and she seemed OK with that. The rest of my science education was limited to chemistry, biology and physics with no further reference to evolution.
Do you remember the Life - How Did It Get Here By Evolution or by Creation? There is a picture of a classroom setting with a bearded professor pointing to a blackboard which showed the progressive evolution from ape to man.
