thief said:
How about....God created Man of Day Six and stepped back....
altering the environment to alter the form.
But....generation moving quickly we might over run the environment before the spiritual portion matures.
So....Chapter Two of Genesis.
I lean to the science guys that suspect there was an 'alteration'.
Sorry, thief. I don't understand how your reply relate to anything I have written to sincerly...
I do understand what you mean that god create everything in those 6 days, but then alter the environment so that it would alter what he had created, but I don't see how that's a respond to my post. I don't see the connection.
Sincerly think that evolution is producing something out of "nothing", which is not true. No matter how many time people have tried to teach him what evolutionary biology is, he either ignorantly ignore them or he is deliberately and intransigently attacking a straw man.
I don't know which is worse, him refusing to learn, or him attacking evolution by misrepresenting evolution that doesn't exist.
To give you an example of evolution, say that we have a family of tortoises living in one island, where the environment is suitable for them: good climate, and vegetation are low enough for them to reach and with leaves they can feed on. So physically, these tortoises would have short neck, short legs and the usual shells.
Now say a group of these tortoises separated from this family, and found their way on another island, where the climate and terrains are different: drier climate, and the leaves on vegetation are higher off the ground, making it very difficult to reach.
So this group have to change their feed habits, where they have to stretch themselves to reach for their food; they have to work harder than the other tortoises in the original island. Their shells are still same shape and structure, their necks and legs are still short. Nothing can really change for them, physically or anatomically.
In order for this group of tortoises to survive, they have to adapt to the new environment. If the pairs of tortoises of this generate mate with each other that have the longest necks and legs; those that, may die out in the next generation.
If you have watch documentaries on wildlife, you will often see two or more male animals competing against one another...sometimes quite violently, to see who become alpha male that can mate with group of females, and produce generation of new and hopefully better offspring.
Among the carnivore animals, strength or speed is one of qualities that the females would look for in their alpha males. But that not always the case in wildlife. It could be about their looks, like which have better hide or pretty feathers (birds for instances), or who could sing better or louder than other males (again birds).
In the case, tortoises on the 2nd island, the alpha male would be the one who have the longest neck and legs. A new generation of tortoises should have slightly longer neck and legs. And this new generation will produce another new generation of offspring with even slightly necks and legs than their parents.
Because they have to crank their neck, the shape of the shell would gradually and structurally change its shape, with each successive generations of tortoises, until eventually the tortoise have enough space in their shells, known as "saddleback shell", that they can crank their necks in upright-position.
There is a great pictures of tortoises with saddleback shells at
Galápagos tortoises @ Wikipedia.
The Galápagos Islands are some of the places that Darwin had visited, and these tortoises were some of the species he had studied nearly 30 years before he published his theory on Natural Selection.
This is what it mean by Natural Selection, creatures producing offspring that are better adapted than them or their ancestors. It may take a few generations or hundreds or thousands of generations for us to see the anatomical or genetic changes.
Evolution is not about life coming out of "nothing", and evolution was never never about origin of first life. Origin of first life is called abiogenesis in science.
But even then, abiogenesis is not about making life out of nothing, but trying about making inorganic compound into a living organic compound. This is more a field of chemistry than biology. Inorganic matters or compounds are not "nothing".
All MATTERS are SOMETHING, whether they be organic or inorganic. Even antimatters and dark matters are SOMETHING.
The only way there can be NOTHING if there were no "matters" in a vacuum.
This is what sincerly doesn't understand or he is deliberately misrepresenting these scientific theories.
