At 4/25/05 12:54 PM, TigerDemon wrote:
Adam and eve were perfect and so they had no bad genes that would have caused problems. Sickness and death only started after the fall of man and has gotten worse as man have become more corrupt.
That's crap and I'll give you three examples why:
1) Even a gene pool with no know disorders, when all the genes are coming from a single mated pair, will ide out within three generations based solely upon the fact that the genome has been PROVEN to work like a copying machine: you make a copy, of a copy, of a copy, and by then the newest copy is illegible and worthless.
2) Man is still evolving. You can look at medical records from years ago, and tell that the average human is nearly a foot taller, 30% stronger, and has a life span almost 30 years longer than our ancestors.
3) If we as a species are degenerating, how is it that "Adam and Eve" are long dead, and we're only getting stronger and stronger? Is it REALLY in the best interests of our species to blindly believe whatever is put in front of us?
In conclusion:
Whether there was an original creator or not, human beings are changing for the better. We evolve constantly. Every species does. If it can't adapt, it dies. Barring the problem of the missing link, there are definitive fossil records showing us that humans have been changing and adapting for hundreds of thousands of years. Proof of either the Big Bang or Deity Creation has not been found, and personally, I'm willing to believe either. But you can't expect anyone who understands basic scientific theory to believe that we evolved from two people who look startlingly more advanced in pictures than ANY fossil of human remains between "then" and the 130th century BC.