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I don't believe in evolution though... Adaptation?
Slight difference. Actually, no. Major difference. No species has ever crossed. Adaptation has been observed and proven, not evolution. You don't need to rely on human interpretation, it's really easy to see how evolution - the gradual process of individual genetic mistakes creating features that make a creature better adapted for survival that also pass along to their progeny- cannot be the answer for anything more than adaptation within a species.
One way to look at it is- all the less-adapted creatures would have been selected out and no longer exist. Else there would be those missing links they keep looking for. Yes, every one they've declared has been disproven, by the way. Another way to look at it is, take a complex mechanism, like dolphin sonar, and explain it as gradual, single-feature evolution. That doesn't work, because the complex system changes would have had to happen all together to make any sense. There is no valid reason for a special sound-producing vocal system to be an advantage without the complex receptors in their skulls also being present to 'hear' them, or the very complex hyper-developed area in their brains to interpret them. How about the fact that after all this time on the planet, apes still can't float? Definite survival advantage they're missing out on.
The people at Answers in Genesis probably can explain better than I; they've done the genetic analysis. Me, I can talk to the fact that carbon dating beyond hundreds of years is a total myth. And they do know it, which is why new finds use only relative dating instead of declaring new carbon dates.
Evolution, as a process, has been demonstrated, but not the fact that complex life like Humans were created purely by evolution from the primordial cells.
Yes, I agree with that, but note that the question as you put it, has no value in all the real discussions regarding evolution. Its a. technical fact with no real impact.
Inb4, you will claim that "But some people go around saying 'I dont believe in evolution'" - but note that these people, whether they have thought deeply or not, are really trying to say that "I don't believe we came to this world purely through evolution", or to put it more accurately what they are really saying is "I believe in a Creator"
Knowing that modern peoples' minds are so distracted with technology and having calcified third eyes, I would think that ancient people probably had a better connection to God and likely a better understanding of God's capabilities and intentions. Beyond that, how much of the original book has been revised and misinterpreted by theologians (and other powerful men) ruminating on its contents? For whatever reason, the aphorism, "Idle hands are the Devil's work" just floated into my mind as I was typing. I feel like the modern Church is reminiscent of Gary Oldman's character in "Book of Eli."