This ongoing battle about whether we're a product of creation or evolution needs to stop, and I think that maybe semantics may be the reason that it rages on. Give this a few minutes thought, if you would.
Say we were created, bam, we're here. Nowhere in the Bible does it say exactly HOW long it took for things to "mature" into what they are now. One of God's days could be millions of ours, right? SO, that could mean that we took a LONG time to become what we are, couldn't it? And as far as the term "evolve", it could just as easily be called "adapting", couldn't it? We have always adapted to whatever we were presented with. You can see that in the different races around the globe, how they adapted to the weather and conditions in their areas. Adaptation does NOT mean we were not created, does it? It doesn't have to. It's like the automobile. The first cars were made of what was possible at that time, right? And as the years have gone by, the cars have adapted to the changing conditions, the wants of the consumers, the laws of the land, etc., but that doesn't negate that they were created in their original form, does it? No. Everything that was created at the start is not still around. Some things were killed off and some could not make the necessary changes to survive in their current circumstances...survival of the fittest...but again, that does NOT negate the possibility of creation. We've changed just in the past few hundred years, since medicine and such have improved, and things like hormones are found in our food. There are 6 year old children hitting puberty now because of all the hormones in some foods, and there are people living to be 100+ due to the great medicines available now, and that can be considered "evolving", because we are, more correctly, adapting to our world as we go along, as we always have. So, if you really think about it, one concept does NOT negate the other. They can live quite nicely together if the powers that be would just be more flexible about things. I could name probably 20 things that have changed about us physically since ancient times, and that is due mostly to necessity and availability of different things, but it sure doesn't mean we weren't created by something greater than ourselves billions of OUR years ago. Just try to wrap your head around the time frame issue, and it's very clear. And we, and everything else in the world, are SO complex that there is no way it just, in a totally random way, Happened to all fall into place. Just look at what's inside an atom and you can see that plain and simple, and if that doesn't do it for you, look at everything just in the known universe. None of this was an accident, not possible.
So all you have to do is agree that we were created, and have been adapting to our situations ever since, and we have the whole thing nicely covered, and all these people that live on government grants trying to prove one or the other will have to get real jobs. They keep the battle going because it's so simple to keep people divided on any big issue. It's our nature to take sides on things, but in this instance, I think it's time we were all on the same side. We have much more pressing issues to be fussing with. This seems to me to be a no-brainer.
Just sayin'
Dragonfly Davis
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