Evolution/Big Band: State sponsored Religion

[Liv]

no , i do not agree, yes i think that human's differ from any animal, but is it not possible we are the ancestors of neanderthals. I you fore an exaple take a wee baby, he is not very aware of anything, but at this early stage in life, his survival instinct is allready working.?Sooner on he learns, grow's, all things we know are really fedd to us from others, through our upbringing, untill he reaches the age where he can "think for himself", and has become a unique person in the world.
if you take this, and think a little abstract, isn't it easy to see that things change, it is offcourse not the same with a baby boy, but could you ever imagine a baby being born with full awareness and ability to speak , and do you believe that he allready know's the existance of God?
I'm just trying to prove that there is nothing strange in things changing, if things and animal's including the human race. they would simply die.!The surveval of the fittest, and really, i believe that even people today practise that more or less, it's just in a more civilized manner than animal's. and animal'¨s do have sex just for pleasure, take lions fore an example, and some birds have one partner all of their life. Aren't animal's also creations of God, and if so, why could he not have chosen that things should evolve.?
Some animal's also kill only fore pleasure , and they leave their prey behind without eating any of it.
We have no racial enemies except fore ourselves, therefore we fight each other, we still have that animalistic thing in us that forces us to hunt ( go to work ) mate, reproduce ourselves, and , if neccecsary, kill.!Many mass-muderers claim to be the torch of Christ, if they do not believe their christ himself, and that they are here to cleanse by taking the lives of sinfull people...I could , and will never blame all christians for that, as if i will never hold it against all christians what you say , and believe.
But i don't understand why this good god would create a world as the one we live in today, we' would be wrecking what he built and if there ever was a good, i really wouldn't blame him if he left us behind.!!
but this god of yours is not perfect is he, i mean , why should there be a snake in paradise , and why would adam and eve betray him if was perfect.?

Hope to hear from you soon, i really enjoy this discution*S*
Hugs mARIA.

[Modern_Bard]

Maria,
Sorry it took me so long to pick up on your name. (I kept calling you Liv) The answer to your last question is this--Free will. It is the mystery of free will that can answer those questions. God is perfect, and he created us for companionship, in his own image. But God did not want automotans who came to him because they had too. He gave us a will to chose our path, and so when we came to him of our own choice it would mean so much more. If there was someone you loved and you wanted to be with them, would you want them to come to you because they were forced, because they had no choice? Or would you want them to come to you because they wanted to? This is the same way with God. Adam, (which also means 'mankind' in the Hebrew) had a free will. He chose the wrong path, he chose the path paved with evil. God has spent the rest of history trying to get people to come back to him. He doesn't need us but he wants us, and therein lies the awesome and unexplainable love of Christ. And yes, it's okay for Christians to say they don't know certain things, because we are only humans as well. But I want people to know, as I think you are begining to realize, that our faith in Jesus is not ignorant. I am not (I hope) a stupid person. My loves are literature (Shakespeare, Marlowe, Dickens, Burns, Mary Stewart, Doyle, Tennyson, etc.) Scotland, history, and music. I understand the tenants of human philosophy and the sciences. I used to be somewhat of a scientist, an astronomer to be more correct. Then I rediscoverd God, and haven't been the same since. I am not saying this to brag on myself but to show that I am not an ignorant yokel with no knowedge of any worldy things. Knowledge comes from books, but wisdom comes only from God. Adieu for now, I enjoy this conversation.
What a piece of work is man,
The Modern Bard