Have I jim_darwin been tricked by Satan himself because I believe in the evolution of man from ape?
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Hey Jim, I've looked at your picture a bunch of times and I'm still not sure what to believe. Throw some feathers on and some gills and you could be from any era you want.
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This is one of the most common misconceptions regarding the theory of evolution.  The theory of human evolution does not claim that humans came from apes.  Instead, it says that many millions of years ago, there was a species that was neither a human nor an ape.  This species split into at least two groups.  Over millions of years, one of those groups gradually changed to become what we now know as apes, and one of them gradually changed to become what we now know as humans. \n\nWhether you choose to believe the theory of evolution or some other explanation for how humans came to be is an entirely different matter.  That's something you have to decide for yourself--a bunch of strangers on the Internet can't tell you that.
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Friend, it is the devil that is trying to confuse you. I will try to answer Your questions, Jesus was born right around Sept. to the first week of Oct. Because he was 331/2 yrs. old when he was crucifed.  As far as cavemen, evolution, Adam & Eve & Dinosaurs, I will bring that out too, my Friend satan would like to get you to not believe God,  Now about cave men, Was there any, Yes. & is evolution correct, up to a certain point, & that will not take away Creation, Adam & Eve, Yes, & Dinosuars , Yes.  Go to the bible, there is always a hidden word that many has for many yrs. overlooked, Gen 9:1 God told Noah to Replinish the earth or to fill it up again, Gen.1:28 God told Adam & Eve to replinish the earth or to fill it up again, as far as evolution, NO we did not evolved, But there is certain cases of evolution, like for instance, A tappole turns into a frog, & a larva turns into a butterfly, & an egg turns into a chicken or a Bird. But there is no evolution when it comes to Humans, We did not evolve from monkies, or a slimmy creature out of a polluted pond somewhere. Not back to The prehistoric time frame, In the Beginnng, God created the Heaven & the earth & the earth was void & without form, then God finally has his prehistoric time frame, where there was cave-men & women But they was not a SON or Daughter of God, & they did not have a soul. This was the time of the prehistoric animals & the angelic angels to test & try them. This time frame could have lasted for millions of yrs. & As time went on God saw they became more evil, Why, Remember, satan is already a fallen angel at the beginning of the prehistoric time, The time was a testing time for the animal kingdom & the angelic kingdom, Because to futher prove what I said, turn to 2nd Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, (when, in the beginning of the prehistoric time)But cast them down to hell & delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto Judgement. Now we come to the end of this prehitoric time, God just took this earth far enough away from the sun to cause a Great Ice Age, & this Ice age could also have lasted millions of yrs. That is why they have found Palm Leaves in the North & South pole, this planet one time had a perfect climate.Then when God decided he wanted anothet life form to be put on this earth, God slowly took this earth & slowly began to bring it back into a relationship with the sun to warm it up to once again bring forth life. Then Adam & Eve is Created, Now Adam & Eve was a Son & Daughter of God & they did have a soul. But now we see a upright creature in the Garden of Eden, that had a vocal cord, That was a Prehistoric creature in the highest form from the prehistoric time frame, God just resurected him from the Prehistoric time to be a worker for Adam, & this Creature did not have a soul & neither was he a Son of God. The upright creature had a vocal cord, We see the story about the sin in the garden of eden, It was not eating an apple Because in Gen.1:29 & also Gen 2:9. God said that of EVERY tree in the garden was given for food & that includes the apple, But 2 trees that did not grow out of the ground like the other trees, was in the Midst of the garden, They were 2 laws of Reproduction. It was first put into man & woman to come together in God's due time to bring forth another offspring of God that would have had eternal life, But The serpent, was inticed by satan to try to break The Law of reprodution, The serpent went to Eve, & finally pursuaded Eve to have a sexual relationship, Then Eve knew that this act can be used for pleasure also, & she took this act to Adam out of the true time factor that God ordained. Now we come to the Curse, God goes to the serpent & right there God curses the Serpent & said UPON THY belly thou shall go, Remember, at first he was a upright creature, but now God is taking away his arms & legs, & dust shall be his food, Not dirt itself But the Insects & rodents of the dust he will e
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Darwin never "withdrew" his theory, nice try.\n\nYou're right there were lots of storms and meteorites.  For all we know, life needed a couple of tries to get started.\n\nJust the fact that you are asking whether we came from monkeys or from goo, shows that you either have NO idea what evolution is about or are just trying to get a rise out of people.  You bore me.
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good lord, the level of the ignorance here is amazing!  please, see gs saint's answer, people.\n\n-man did not evolve directly from monkeys, he evolved from apes\n\n-there are still apes around because not all apes evolved into humans, only those in a certain locale did.  the environment man lived in was diffferent from the environment of the apes, spurring him to evolve in a different manner than chimps or bonobos.\n\nTurkishGamer13: it is not a flaw in the theory of evolution.  the coexistance of humans and other primates is fully supported by evolutionary theory, and is what would be expected if eveolution were true.  Umm, just about every characteristic of organisms today started out as a mutation.  Many mutations are harmful, because it is not likely that a random change in a being is going to be beneficial.  Some are though.  I have no wisdom teeth, and my dentist says i never will.  this is a mutation which benefits me.\n\nKajaK: science is moving away from evolution? LOL, read a book on the subject. there are controversies among biologists about the details of evolutionary theory, such as whether evolution occurs gradually at a steady rate or quickly in rapid bursts.  but these controversies do not affect the strength of the theory itself.  Evolution is one of the strongest scientific theories - it is independently confirmed by all different branches of science: chemistry, biology, paleontology, anthropology, geology, ecology, etc.\n\namrmusicqueen: yes, the thousands of scientists over the past 100+ years, working with the most advanced technology, and who have devoted their entire lives to research, study, and experimentation in the issues of biology are ignorant about their subject.  Thousands of PhD's who have each spent decades studying the theory of evolution, trying to find flaws (if a scientist was able to disprove evolution, he wuold be one of the most famous scientists ever, so there is a lot of incentive for scientists to over turn previously established theory) are ignorant about the subject.  But a girl who has never studied the subject (this is a justified assumption, because if you had, you would not be so quick to make hasty generalizations) is qualified to pronounce evolution as "not-cutting it."  LMFAO.
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You know if you click on his name and go to his profile  you can email him your question. Why do you post something like this for others to answer? Are they sitting on his shoulder? Do they know how he gets his information?  You really should just ask him directly. Jim_Darwin does a lot of research on religion. He reads a lot of books. This is one of the driving forces in his life. To get at what is real. To find the truth that works for him. To pick apart all the things that don't make sense. Are you saying that what he posted isn't in the bible? Did he make it up? Why does it bother you so much if it is true? He didn't write the bible, he is just showing what he has found and why he doesn't follow that book. Talk to him personally and I bet you get a whole new opinion on him as a real person not just some Y!A Religion/Spirituality character.\nLove & Light\nSharon\nOne Planet = One People
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Ummmm Last time I checked humans have never evolved into monkeys.  However, there has been a lot of scientific research indicating that apes may have evolved into humans over very long amounts of time.   Evolution is something that occurs over an extremely long amount of time... if humans started living in water now- in thousands of years we could live like a fish. Do your research and don't judge people on what they do or do not believe. That isn't very Christian-like is it? Christians are supposed to be really nice and respectful aren't they?  The Bible could hold some truth, or it could possibly just be a way of setting good morals. No one knows for sure if God exists, and thats a fact.  I think you need to do some research.... I mean good grief- you thought we evolved into monkeys. I think you're a little backwards.  haha!
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Yes, I have noticed this in some people. \n\nBut in all fairness you do it too. I mean what is Jim Darwinism?\n\nGotta be fair now ;)
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We have fact and the ability to think  on our side. Facts that prove that there is no god. That means that you only have ignorance on your side. No one but Christians suggest we came from monkeys, that is just one more example of their ignorance. Evolutionists say humans and apes came from a common ancestor that was not either human or monkey. Do you really think creationism is better? We came from Adam and eve? So then all after them were inbred. The family must have sat down together for orgies. Inbreeding that closely would kill a species, but god let them live to f*** their mothers. I would think you would rather be related to apes, than come from motherf***ers. You need not kid yourself by suggesting that you have a trace of intelligence, when you don't have a clue as to what you are talking about. Have a nice day.
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Satan created mankind. All of the ancient texts point to this. Christianity and judaism have tortured Satan's name for their own benefit. I feel that everything I have in life I owe to Him, and He rewards me every day. Other religions teach people to be stupid. "Dont eat from the tree of knowledge!"  Well I say "why not???"  You should want to know what the Gods know. You should want to ascend to a level of Godhood. Anything less is selling your existance and purpose short. We use 5% of our brains. It is the judeo-christian beliefs that have caused this to mankind. And for what? A book created by Constantine? Satan is not evil. All He ever wants and asks is that mankind use his brains and ability to the maximum extent. All other religions preach to DENY knowledge. Satan saved mankind when other "Gods" wished to destroy mankind. Yes, I love Satan.
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I'm not really sure about the evolution thing.  Evolution as a theory has pretty much been proven on a limited scale---as in a single species.  I'm not really sure that its been proven on a cross species basis.  For example, I believe there are 17 different species of finch on the Galapagos Islands that Darwin studied.  Each had evolved a different style of beak in order to specialize in a food source, be it berries, nuts or blood.  Yes, there are blood eating finches in the Galapagos.  They have sharp bill and will peck the legs of cattle, sheep, goats, etc and drink the blood that comes out.\n\nBut I'm not sure that evolution has ever been proven on a cross-species basis---for example, the monkey to man theory.  However, I think its estimated that we as humans have 99.5% identical genetic makeup as the great apes.  That's pretty significant.  It's also a sobering thought, only a half a percent difference in genetic makeup is the difference between us and the great apes!\n\nFinally, I believe the Bible and I believe in God and Jesus.  As far as God creating the world and all that's in it---I believe that.  As far as how he created it, I have no idea.\n\nI believe it would be rather foolish of me to dictate to the Lord that he could not create man by having man evolve from the great apes.  Actually, I think it would be pretty foolish of me to try to dictate or limit the Lord in any way---so I won't do it.  I'll just believe what the Bible says and leave the details to the Lord.
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I've read and studied to limited degree some of the standard textbooks on evolution and it has not shaken my faith, but i don't claim to be an expert, but you might want to take a look at the fact that some of the writers of standard text supporting evolution have since begun to question its ability to explain the world around us... see Dean Kenyon, he didn't read the standard graduate level text "Biochemical Evolution", he wrote it, but he has since changed his view to intelligent design.  see also Stanley Salthe he wrote the widely used text "Evolutionary Biology" (1972) as far as I know he's not a christian but he recently signed a list of over 600 scientist expressing their doubts about evolution.Even among staunch evolutionist there is widespread disagreement as to how or if current theories can adequately explain the complexity and diversity of life. Don't let an oversimplified pop culture understanding of evolution mislead you into thinking the universe is understood and God has been somehow disproved/discredited or made irrelevant. Evolutionary theory has in no way proven we are here by chance. see www.wasdarwinwrong   its a good survey of pro-darwin, neo-darwin, alternative and intelligent design literature.  see also  discovery.org and reasonstobelieve.org  don't fail to examine the claims of Christ because a theory of biological origins
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You've got a few misconceptions there.  I'm going to assume you are really asking a question and not just fishing for agreement, so I'll try and straighten them out.\n\nFirst of all, IF man evolved from other primates, it would be more proper to say that mankind arose from -A- primate.  To draw an analogy, if you build a house out of lumber from trees, it doesn't mean there are no trees left in the world... only the trees you used to make your house are gone.  So it is perfectly plausible for monkeys to still be around even though something else might have evolved from them.  Populations become isolated and develop different traits all the time - try comparing someone from China, Iceland, and Africa some time.\n\nSecondly, I don't suspect any evolutionist would say that man evolved from monkeys.  Instead they would suggest that they had a common ancestor, and both man AND monkeys are different from that ancestor, just in different ways.\n\nAnd last is the question of transition.  And transition implies you're going somewhere.  Since none of us know what life will be like a hundred million years from now, it may very well be appropriate to say that EVERYTHING now is in a state of transition from what it used to be from what it will be.  Looking for 'half-fins' and the like is a straw-man argument, though there is certainly no dearth of vestigal organs and DNA around in most species, if you only look for it.\n\nI respect your desire to dispute the validity of evolution.  Most true scientists WELCOME having their theories challenged - it can only make them stronger and get rid of bad ones.  But if you're going to tilt at a windmill, make sure your lance is pointed in the right direction!
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There was originally a jim darwin thing the guy did with the picture in my icon.  It was very funny.  He seems to be doing the thing in good taste.  I usually answer his or her questions.\n\nI would definately consider it an honor.
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Your question is a very reasonable one --and brave, since you'll certainly get answers from religious zealots who have completely closed their minds.  Let me start by saying my *only* personal agenda is a search for the truth, no matter where it leads me.  Unlike many, I'm not here to shove my beliefs down anyone's throat. \n\nThe short answer is that I doubt it's possible in this kind of forum to get into enough details to convince a confirmed *creationist* that humans evolved from simpler life forms.  But I hope to encourage an open-minded person to continue with their own research, and not be tempted by overly "easy" answers.   \n\nThe long answer (most of it written by me, some of it transcribed manually; none of it pasted)...\n\nI, too, was unclear about the evolutionary process for a long time.  While I'm not an expert (and *nobody* has *all* the answers) I think I can help you get to a place where it makes *sense* to you as it now does to me, since you appear to have an open mind.  (Agnosticism is good!)  \n\nAfter hearing people's arguments and questions for many years, I am convinced that there are six huge factors getting in the way of a general acceptance of the *overwhelming* scientific evidence for evolution.  \n\n1 - the common misconception that evolution claims apes or chimpanzees changed to human beings, and the perceived indignity -- and indignation -- that goes along with that idea... or with *any* suggestion that we evolved from a lower form.  It's nothing but ridiculous human arrogance!\n2 - the lack of human conception for the vast time life has had on Earth to evolve\n3 - the human temptation to rush things and jump to ridiculous (and therefore naturally hard to believe) conclusions.  Evolution involves not three or four steps, like fish to amphibian to ape to human!)... not hundreds, or even thousands of big, visible steps... but perhaps hundreds of millions of minute, subtle changes in a life form.  Remember, we have had the time!\n4 - the mistaken notion that creatures evolved because they "decided" to, or "wanted" to.  When we say, for example, that fish needed to absorb oxygen more efficiently from the water, so they evolved gills, that's not to imply it was a choice.  Evolution is about mutations... changes that were random from one generation to the next, over long periods of time.  Those changes that happened to be good for the creature meant that creature survived long enough to reproduce, which meant there would now be lots of little babies with that same feature.\n5 - a fearful and/or stubborn refusal to abandon faith in a Creator, since doing so might condemn the unbeliever to eternal suffering\n6 - It's just *easier* to think about a Creator.\n\nI know you want to see some details of our "life's path" to make sense of it, and I will provide that, below.  Just a bit more, first.\n\nThe central ideas of evolution are that all life shares a common ancestor, and that it has changed over time (obviously, if we are to explain getting from A to B).  While it's hard for many people to imagine the changes that would result in, for example, human beings from lifelessness, the first thing to keep firmly in mind is that we are talking about an *unimagineable* amount of time to play with... the earth having been around for some 4.5 billion years, as you said.\n\nUnderstandably, few people can appreciate how much a billion is.  Do you realize that roughly a billion *seconds* ago, "The Godfather, Part 2" was about to win the Academy Award for Best Picture?... that Richard Nixon was President of the U.S.?... that Hank Aaron had just broken Babe Ruth's record of 714 career home runs?  1974 was drawing to a close -- one billion seconds ago.\n\nIt's a lack of appreciation for this vast amount of time which, I think, makes people skeptical.  They wonder how, in any amount of time they can envision, an ape can c
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yes I do. There is scientific evidence that we evolved from primates. I don't believe one man pointed his finger *boom* man was created. There was life before Christ, what makes anyone think it was Christ Himself that put the life here afterwords? \nBible thumpers are going to be all over me for this, but why should I believe a book? For all anyone knows, a really drunk author could have written the bible. I mean look at Scientology.. someone invented that religon. Completely made it up! And look at all of the followers. \nIf I was alive 2000 years ago and wrote a book about worshipping grasshoppers, would we all be praying to the 'almighty hopping insect'? \nSadly, no one will know if there is a God or not untill it is our time to go. \nI don't think we have to praise Him in order to go somewhere nice after death. As long as we are good people and live our life to the fullest, we will be happy in death.\n\nAnd 1 more thing: how come we can dig up fossils from dinosaurs (BC), but nothing to back up anything the bible says (AD)?
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No you don't know the answer. You know that "that's the way god made it" or "we evolved that way", but either way, you can't truly and accurately know if you are right.\n\n---\nBTW, if you believe that "we evolved from chimpanzees", you need to refresh your memory on what exactly the modern evolutionary theory says. Don't put words in Darwin's mouth that he never said.