goodjewishboy
Shalom!
with people trying to disprove science with religion and vice/versa. Science is not diametricly opposed to religion. Evolution and Creation are not mutually exclusive. Religion is here to tell us why we exist, it gives us purpose. Science is concerned with how the world and the universe works. How and Why are two seperate questions. We cannot understand our existance without addressing both questions. Science is not equipped to tell us why we are here, and Religion is woefully inadequate in telling us how it all works.
Lets talk about evolution. Evolution is fact. the mechanisms of evolution are debated, but the fact of it is not because evolution is observable. fossil record has traced birds back to dinosaurs. the archaeoperyx is a creature with scales, teeth, and feathers. If we move to the present day you see animals like the ostridge and emu. they're built to run exactly like dinosaurs were. There are also some species of birds alive today that in the embryonic state they start to develop small shap teeth that do not mature. That in it self is a 'missing link' between the birds of today and dinosaurs of the past. We can see the changes in species millions of years back. We can even look up at the stars and calculate how old they are based on distance and the speed of light.
I've said it before on these forums:
G-d would not create physcial laws and natural systems if He weren't going to use them.
If you want to get theological about it. it makes sence. Say G-d creates life and His goal is to create a being in his image. Through His Will he made the conditions just right for life to occur, this process could take billions of years (in our perception of time) for all the right conditions to occur for life to happen. Once He creates life it still takes hundreds of millions of years for conditions to become such that life can change. The conditions for a single cell to become a multicell organism is probably more complex than the first spark of life. Once life had the ability to change G-d let it do so wildly. The pre-cambrian period had the most dirverse life than any other age. G-d lets the ones with the most potential develop and grow and most of the other life die off in an extinction event. There is evidance of six or seven extinction (add one if you count recent human activity) events in paeleologic record. Every time an extinction event has occured the life that has made it through has become far more complex and developed, but less diverse. Now through millions of years of directing life the first being capable of comprehending G-d arises from all this life that has developed behind him. Perhaps Adam was the first human that was self aware.
We have all this physcial evidence for evolution, it's all around us if we use our G-d given brains we can see it.
G-d writes his prophesy in earth itself as well as in the minds of man. With more insight we have in our physcial world, into how everything works can bring us more appreciation of the divine.
(If any of this is familiar it's cause I took the meat of it from some old posts, my arguement's not changed
)
Lets talk about evolution. Evolution is fact. the mechanisms of evolution are debated, but the fact of it is not because evolution is observable. fossil record has traced birds back to dinosaurs. the archaeoperyx is a creature with scales, teeth, and feathers. If we move to the present day you see animals like the ostridge and emu. they're built to run exactly like dinosaurs were. There are also some species of birds alive today that in the embryonic state they start to develop small shap teeth that do not mature. That in it self is a 'missing link' between the birds of today and dinosaurs of the past. We can see the changes in species millions of years back. We can even look up at the stars and calculate how old they are based on distance and the speed of light.
I've said it before on these forums:
G-d would not create physcial laws and natural systems if He weren't going to use them.
If you want to get theological about it. it makes sence. Say G-d creates life and His goal is to create a being in his image. Through His Will he made the conditions just right for life to occur, this process could take billions of years (in our perception of time) for all the right conditions to occur for life to happen. Once He creates life it still takes hundreds of millions of years for conditions to become such that life can change. The conditions for a single cell to become a multicell organism is probably more complex than the first spark of life. Once life had the ability to change G-d let it do so wildly. The pre-cambrian period had the most dirverse life than any other age. G-d lets the ones with the most potential develop and grow and most of the other life die off in an extinction event. There is evidance of six or seven extinction (add one if you count recent human activity) events in paeleologic record. Every time an extinction event has occured the life that has made it through has become far more complex and developed, but less diverse. Now through millions of years of directing life the first being capable of comprehending G-d arises from all this life that has developed behind him. Perhaps Adam was the first human that was self aware.
We have all this physcial evidence for evolution, it's all around us if we use our G-d given brains we can see it.
G-d writes his prophesy in earth itself as well as in the minds of man. With more insight we have in our physcial world, into how everything works can bring us more appreciation of the divine.
(If any of this is familiar it's cause I took the meat of it from some old posts, my arguement's not changed
)
