I've decided to write another entry on religion. This time it will not be as critical of Christianity as the one about Easter hypocrisy. I'll just share my beliefs on evolution and creationism, or "intelligent design" as some call it (if you believe something, better really believe it: don't beat around the bush).
I myself are leaning strongly towards evolution, but if I have read Darwin right, I believe his theories aren't really that correct. If it were about the survival of the fittest, man wouldn't have survived past the first ice age it encountered, and the world today would have been dominated entirely by cockroaches, ants, spiders, and other bugs. It really isn't about who is the strongest. There are many different eco systems the world over, and the species that adapt the best to the various situation it encounters will prevail.
Darwin himself has brought up the Galapagos Islands as evidence for his survival of the fittest theory, and on the islands there is a type of bird that exists on each of the islands. Yet, on each of the islands there is a completely different eco system, which has forced the bird to diversify and adapt to conditions that exist on the various islands. On each of the island the local bird population has adapted to condition on that island itself, which means that on no two islands the bird species has the same survival strategy, and if one of these birds would another island, it'll have serious trouble sustaining itself.
Even in mankind this exists. Around the equator, the general populations are of a much darker color than on my parallel, and there are other differences. All simply caused by the geographics of where our ancestors have lived for the past thousands of years. In spite of all the attempts to protect their skin by wearing white sheets, I have read studies that claim that the klansmen in the south of the US show more facial features more likely to show up in people of African origin with every generation. They may not like it, but their bodies are simply adapting to the conditions. It may take a few thousand years before their offspring will really be black, but it will happen.
I also have no problem believing we descend from apes (I just hope apes feel the same way). Apes are not the stupid beings that are portrayed in cartoons, and children's stories. In fact they survive under much harser conditions than us, and do a great job at it.
I'm not a firm believer of creationism, or its euphemistic name, intelligent design. About that name, I really wonder what's so intelligent about the design of us human beings. Many believers come up with the human eye as proof, because it's so brilliant, but if that were the case, what about all the people who wear glasses, or the people who have varying degrees of blindness, and color blindness. It's more complicated than the eyes of the dinosaur, but it's had millions of years to develop, and the only reason it's better than the eye of just about every other species, lies in the fact that we simply have nothing else to go by. If I smell excrement, I get annoyed, but it doesn't warn me about the proximity of let's say... wolves. And since it's possible to smell things that are hidden in thick woods, but impossible for us to see, I must say I dog has a serious advantage over us.
This doesn't mean I rule out that there is a God or anything. I hope I'm not that cocky. When I read my Bible however, I always get a feeling that it's completely unimportant where we come from. The only thing that matters is how we die: do we die at peace with the LORD, and go to heaven, or do we die cursing His name, and go to hell. Where you were born, or where we all come from has no meaning. In fact, the first Christians never even commemorated the birth of Jesus Christ Himself. Therefore, I believe, that if the Bible were the absolute truth, the creation story would not have been in it, not the Eve and Adam version, not any other version.
Besides, if we look at the origin of the Bible, not the scriptures in it, but the Book itself, you'll find it was put together under the stewardship of the two Roman Emperors Constantine and Theodosius. Many of the scriptures in it were selected to serve them, and not necessarily the truth. The Book of Job for example is very likely to have been popular fiction in its days, rather than a truthful account about what happened to a servant of God.
I also wonder why it is so hard for Christians to believe in the Big Bang theory. All the evidence is there. Besides, I think the Big Bang, and all the energy released in the process, is a gesture worthy of an Almighty Being, and the size of the universe and how long it took for us to evolve to this stage could very well serve as a testimony to His Greatness.
Even evolution itself could very well be the work of God. You can't expect even God to know everything before He has ever done anything. The dinosaurs were a grand experiment, but God wasn't satisfied and sent a comet to wipe the slate clean, and start anew, giving mammals a chance. That has led to our being here. And if you attribute that to God, well, you know what is awaiting us, when God decides he's seen enough.
Even in the Bible God Himself evolves. From the unforgiving pettiness of punishing sinners with a deluge that very nearly wiped us out, to sending Jesus to die for the forgiveness of our sins. That's a completely different God. If we just remove Genesis, and the Book of Revelation from the Bible, it could be a very reasonable explanation for the order of things in this world.
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