Comments on: Question #20: Was man created or did he evolve?

By: Jim Palmer

Jim Palmer — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:48:26 +0000

Evolved. The evidence is pretty firm and clear at this point.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:20:38 +0000

Evolution is a theory of how life evolves and says nothing about how life initially began, so they are not even mutually exclusive.

But more to the point evolution is provably true. And creationism is arbitrary. All you could say is that man was “created” by the order of reality.

By: Angel

Angel — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:21:08 +0000

We don’t know who, but the way the animals have evolved, so have we!!!

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:57:05 +0000

We have no evidence for creation so we must have evolved. It is the only rational option. We know by the fossel record we weren’t always on the planet. Especially when the planet was first being formed and was unable to support life so we sprouted here somehow. We just don’t know how the process works. I am ok with that and have no need to create a god of the gaps to explain it.

By: Papa Ron

Papa Ron — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:27:05 +0000

I believe in evolution. I also believe that the whole thing became me and you, and everything else. The whole thing did more than create, it is also acting out our great action-adventure comedy-tragedy drama and doing a fine job. Evolution is part of the plot.

An infinite set of infinities conspired to be me. (and of course everyone else)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:12:51 +0000

Humans, as well as non-human animals, evolved through a natural process. The non-random survival of random variations in the genetics of successive generations.

By: SWEJ

SWEJ — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:50:52 +0000

Uh, all the evidence points toward a process of evolution. This has been accepted for ~200 years.

To think otherwise is honestly laughable in this day and age, but because of the insecurity of some major religions, even basic scientific facts like this are still questioned.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:28:03 +0000

Evolution is a fact, and there’s no good reason whatsoever to believe that our species – or ANY species – was “created” (as in “created” by a god or some other such “entity”). Even if we had no knowledge of evolution, claiming our creation happened by some special means simply moves The Big Question over a skooch.

If we primates and the universe we inhabit were created by some god-thing, then who/what created the god-thing? If it created itself or always existed, why not save a step? Since we see only the universe and not the god-thing allegedly responsible for it, why “create” it specially so that it can “exist” to “create” US? We are still left with a question of origins, and complicating it needlessly with god-stuff which is utterly devoid of evidence doesn’t appear to help us at all.

By: Robi

Robi — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 09:57:00 +0000

This sounds funny but interesting, a friend once asked me, “What if Adam was an Amoeba or at least the first primate? Then the both camps could be equally right!!!!God said he created Adam in his likeness, God’s description so far best matches with an Amoeba (Shapeless, invisible etc.) and his temper with a crazy chimp…”

By: AdamK

AdamK — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:36:07 +0000

Humans evolved, as did all living things, by entirely unguided natural processes.