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Originally posted by Wayfinder
1) The Bible teaches otherwise and since by extensive personal study I have come to recognize the Bible as the word of God, I take it as truth.
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Really??? The Bible literally says, don’t believe in evolution? That’s amazing considering it was written by men millennia before the concept was ever considered. The men that wrote that book, whether they were guided by G-d’s hand or were simply very wise men that knew they needed to control the less informed masses, did not know a lot that we know today.
They didn’t know microbes existed - Leeuwenhoek showed that in the 17th century.
They didn’t know larger organisms were made up of cells (cell theory; Scheiden and Schwann, 1838).
They didn’t have Darwin’s insight that organisms adapt to their environment over time, thus proposing the Origin of the Species in 1859 or that traits resided on genes (Mendel showed that in 1865).
They didn’t know those genes existed on chromosomes (Sutton and Bover, 1903) or the chromosomes were made up of the double helix DNA (Watson and Crick, 1953).
They didn’t know the precise sequence of that DNA in triplets of nucleotides creates a specific sequence of amino acids in proteins (the genetic code, Nirenberg, 1965).
They didn’t know that a change in a single base pair of that sequence can result in a different protein or that this difference could give an individual a selective advantage to survive in its environment or that the change could be passed on to it’s offspring thus giving them that same advantage.
In spite of being so uninformed, those men wrote in a book that evolution is not the way G-d created all the plants and animals on earth. Really, really amazing.