What I can't figure out and maybe it's just me but why does one have to exclude other. I am one of those rare individuals I guess who believes there is a God but also believes in the theory of evolution. After all it's kind of hard for me to swallow that all the population of the earth came from one man and one woman. Yes, maybe the garden of Eden story happened I won't dispute it. But what if God thought this wasn't enough to populate the earth and that more human being were needed. So he took one of the animals populating the earth most like humans the primate and allowed it to start to evolve into human form. Funny how some feel this happened but it didn't happen clear across the board if it is true, because there are still primates on the earth right? So, why did evolution start and why did it stop. I guess I am just someone who is of a believer that evolution did happen only God played a part in it. That is just my theory on this long reaching subject.
Well said Ken I look more at what people post/reply than their "fakenames/or not" and photos. I think those that come to cause discord are trolls, isn't that the term across the www.
I don't think it's right to say that evolution has stopped. Animals and humans are still in the process. Look, for example, at species that live in isolation or those that have adapted to urban environments. They continue to evolve. Humans have not stopped, either. There is a great deal of evidence that shows humans developing differently in different parts of the world, particularly where they have developed immunity to certain diseases. This has involved considerable genetic modification.
This is a good question, @Hannah Davis , and probably one that almost everyone has a different idea about. For thousands of years, this was never even in question. All races of people everywhere had legends of creation done by some kind of a god. No one even considered that humans and apes might be related. Then, Darwin came along with his theory that all life on earth was not created by god; but instead it evolved. Even so, that theory was not widely accepted, but since it has now been promoted by teaching it in schools, people who believe in God have been trying to reconcile the two thoughts. The proposed answers run the whole gamut from believing in evolution only, to believing in creation only. I think that our generation is maybe the first generation that started to accept the idea of evolution, and question what we were taught from the Bible, or try to make it all fit together somehow. Even Bobby and I have totally different ideas about this topic. He believes in evolution, but that it was done by God. I am a young-earth creationist, and don't believe in evolution that changes species. We actually have more DNA that is like a pig than we do that is like a monkey, which is why some transplants can use organs from pigs; but no one thinks we came from pigs and not monkeys, even though it makes the same amount of sense.
Could it be that, insofar as the Bible is a history, it is a history of the Hebrew people? That would solve the problem of where Cain found a wife. Not that there aren't other reasonable answers for that. Anyhow, I don't see dinosaurs as being contradictory to the Bible.
It is possible that although Adam and Eve were the first man and woman God made...they were not the last. The "them" in the Scripture above could possibly mean that mankind was created but just as Adam and Eve were the first male and female made, Adam and Eve also were the first to bring forth children too. And then the rest of mankind that God created and "planted" in different areas of the world started bringing forth children too.
Anything is possible with God. But it would have been just as easy for Him to make more humans...which is what I believe He did do.
If I'm not mistaken, Lilith is from Jewish mythology. I've read through Genesis many times and I sure haven't seen it. **** Edited to say that it's said in Jewish folklore that Lilith was actually a demon and Adam's first wife. My goodness.