God creating systems from which man arises is more glorious than one where god merely creates man. It's more compatible with a god who prefers free will and consequence, and is entirely compatible with genesis when you read it as written for a newly awakened mind. But what's more, it's supported by measurable reality.
See any half-human-monkey hybrids?
Natural selection is dependent on mutation, not inter species breeding.
Chimpanzees are specialized for their environment, Gorillas for theirs, and humans for ours. You don't see anything in between, because what would they be good at that an existing species isn't already better at?
We outcompeted what we evolved from. and what we evolved from outcompeted what it evolved from. And so on and so on. We didn't evolve from monkeys, but they evolved from the same predecessors before each of us - they for their environment, us for ours. They stayed in the trees and the forest, we went to the ground, stayed there, and were pretty forgettable until we breached a critical threshold and were then off to the races, each iteration replacing the last because our environmental niche was the same as theirs.
And it was not billions replacing the last billions, it was thousands replacing thousands - Chimpanzees, only ever numbered in the low hundreds of thousands, and in no greater numbers is the extent of man as we would come to know ourselves either until that threshold was passed and we became true masters of the world, rather than as our origins as another equally competing sub group amongst the greater animal kingdom.
The short breakdown is a "Kind" cannot interbreed or come from another "Kind"; e.g. Equine "Kind" cannot interbreed with the Bovine "Kind"
We don't evolve from interbreeding, nor did we arise from it, nor is it necessary to arrive at something new. Random mutation and time is all you need for that. From individual systems such as mitochondria, chloroplasts, the eye, and species. If you doubt the power of mutation over time, look at a beagle and a world over only just a few tens of thousands of years. Labradors have webbed feet. Whales are just proto horses returned to the water post mammalian split -- or better to say that horses and whales are two branches from the same precursor before them.
A Theory is defined as: "an unproved assumption : conjecture"
No, you're describing a hypothesis. A theory is a rules system that explains existing phenomena and has falsifiable predictive power.
You underestimate the power of god, are blind to the majesty of his creation, and lack the faith to believe in him and evolution (his creation) simultaneously
Gave you an upper for your thoughtful comment but am going to remind you that objectivity only holds for superficial circumstances - for superficial conditions.
What does that mean?
Just this: Objectification necessarily leaves a residuum (that which objectifies).
The objectifier (that which objectifies) is necessarily "more intimate" than what it objectifies.
Thus the ultimate objectifier is always "self" (than which NOTHING is more intimate).
Because of this, "self" cannot be objectified and since it is required to have a residuum (that which objectifies) to have ANY object - there are no objects.
Thus we find that objectivity fails.
This paradox is the fundamental condition of nature. It cannot be resolved. Nature is not objective. We are nature.
God creating systems from which man arises is more glorious than one where god merely creates man. It's more compatible with a god who prefers free will and consequence, and is entirely compatible with genesis when you read it as written for a newly awakened mind. But what's more, it's supported by measurable reality.
Natural selection is dependent on mutation, not inter species breeding.
Chimpanzees are specialized for their environment, Gorillas for theirs, and humans for ours. You don't see anything in between, because what would they be good at that an existing species isn't already better at?
We outcompeted what we evolved from. and what we evolved from outcompeted what it evolved from. And so on and so on. We didn't evolve from monkeys, but they evolved from the same predecessors before each of us - they for their environment, us for ours. They stayed in the trees and the forest, we went to the ground, stayed there, and were pretty forgettable until we breached a critical threshold and were then off to the races, each iteration replacing the last because our environmental niche was the same as theirs.
And it was not billions replacing the last billions, it was thousands replacing thousands - Chimpanzees, only ever numbered in the low hundreds of thousands, and in no greater numbers is the extent of man as we would come to know ourselves either until that threshold was passed and we became true masters of the world, rather than as our origins as another equally competing sub group amongst the greater animal kingdom.
We don't evolve from interbreeding, nor did we arise from it, nor is it necessary to arrive at something new. Random mutation and time is all you need for that. From individual systems such as mitochondria, chloroplasts, the eye, and species. If you doubt the power of mutation over time, look at a beagle and a world over only just a few tens of thousands of years. Labradors have webbed feet. Whales are just proto horses returned to the water post mammalian split -- or better to say that horses and whales are two branches from the same precursor before them.
No, you're describing a hypothesis. A theory is a rules system that explains existing phenomena and has falsifiable predictive power.
You underestimate the power of god, are blind to the majesty of his creation, and lack the faith to believe in him and evolution (his creation) simultaneously
Gave you an upper for your thoughtful comment but am going to remind you that objectivity only holds for superficial circumstances - for superficial conditions.
What does that mean?
Just this: Objectification necessarily leaves a residuum (that which objectifies).
The objectifier (that which objectifies) is necessarily "more intimate" than what it objectifies.
Thus the ultimate objectifier is always "self" (than which NOTHING is more intimate).
Because of this, "self" cannot be objectified and since it is required to have a residuum (that which objectifies) to have ANY object - there are no objects.
Thus we find that objectivity fails.
This paradox is the fundamental condition of nature. It cannot be resolved. Nature is not objective. We are nature.