...not for Atheists.? Now, you will see why:
What do you think of the possibility that evolution and creation are hand-in-hand and both equally as true?
The reason this question is not for you Atheists is because you've pretty much made it up in your mind that you will not believe in creation, nor in intelligent design, thus I wouldn't expect a very thought out answer concerning this question coming from you. However, you're welcome to give an answer if you want.
Now I don't mean fish into frog and back into fish again, I mean that God designed the process of adaptation and change for the sake of survival when He created a very limited population of animals, for example a few types of fish, sharks, stingrays, jellyfish, e.t.c..., birds, and other types of organisms. Enough to really get the world going, but small enough so that Adam naming of all of the animals was actually feasible, provided that was not just a metaphor for mankind naming the animals, and by the time of Noah, fitting two of each type of animal on the ark was actually feasible, because if Noah existed today, I seriously doubt he could fit two of every single land animal that walks the earth into an ark even the size of a football stadium.
Although, I'm not sure exactly how big the ark was, mind you, and as I say below, fitting every animal type, might have meant that God only saved the current version of the original animals created, leaving the descendants of them all to die off.
My thinking is this: We know that adaptation occurs, as in subtle changes in the genetic code that happen to allow for traits that allow for a greater reproductive success among animals either directly through reproductive habits and/or through longer survivorship. My thinking is that perhaps a few or several types of fish actually did give way to all the varieties of fish we see now. I don't mean a fish into a shark, I mean that God created a few types of sharks, and they progressed into all the different varieties.
Perhaps there were several types of rodents, and perhaps the mouse actually progressed into the rat, which progressed into the banana rats later on. Perhaps the ground hog progressed into the beaver, the rabbit and some other similar rodents.
Now, I'm just suggesting here, but it's easy to see how over time, which I believe may have been a lot more rapid than we realize in the past, that there would be several small changes to the same animal over time that is genetically separated from others of it's species either by geography or by other means.
It would explain a few things, like how truly perfect God's creation is that it not only can be beautiful, but that it will continue to survive, and it will continue to increase in beauty and diversity even in a sin-imperfect world as time continues. It would explain how Noah would actually be able to fit every animal type, although every type of animal could have easily merely been the ones that were created specifically, while leaving all of the descendant species to die in the coming flood.
It would also explain the sheer variety we have now despite the limited number that survived the flood.
I mean, maybe there are a few things that God created specifically to keep us guessing and remembering that He designed it all, such as the duck-billed Platypus, Viruses, and other weird organisms that don't seem to make sense and are outside the norm of what one would expect even when trying to trace it's ancestry as evolutionists attempt to do.
What do you Intelligent Design and creationists think about this idea?
What do you think of the possibility that evolution and creation are hand-in-hand and both equally as true?
The reason this question is not for you Atheists is because you've pretty much made it up in your mind that you will not believe in creation, nor in intelligent design, thus I wouldn't expect a very thought out answer concerning this question coming from you. However, you're welcome to give an answer if you want.
Now I don't mean fish into frog and back into fish again, I mean that God designed the process of adaptation and change for the sake of survival when He created a very limited population of animals, for example a few types of fish, sharks, stingrays, jellyfish, e.t.c..., birds, and other types of organisms. Enough to really get the world going, but small enough so that Adam naming of all of the animals was actually feasible, provided that was not just a metaphor for mankind naming the animals, and by the time of Noah, fitting two of each type of animal on the ark was actually feasible, because if Noah existed today, I seriously doubt he could fit two of every single land animal that walks the earth into an ark even the size of a football stadium.
Although, I'm not sure exactly how big the ark was, mind you, and as I say below, fitting every animal type, might have meant that God only saved the current version of the original animals created, leaving the descendants of them all to die off.
My thinking is this: We know that adaptation occurs, as in subtle changes in the genetic code that happen to allow for traits that allow for a greater reproductive success among animals either directly through reproductive habits and/or through longer survivorship. My thinking is that perhaps a few or several types of fish actually did give way to all the varieties of fish we see now. I don't mean a fish into a shark, I mean that God created a few types of sharks, and they progressed into all the different varieties.
Perhaps there were several types of rodents, and perhaps the mouse actually progressed into the rat, which progressed into the banana rats later on. Perhaps the ground hog progressed into the beaver, the rabbit and some other similar rodents.
Now, I'm just suggesting here, but it's easy to see how over time, which I believe may have been a lot more rapid than we realize in the past, that there would be several small changes to the same animal over time that is genetically separated from others of it's species either by geography or by other means.
It would explain a few things, like how truly perfect God's creation is that it not only can be beautiful, but that it will continue to survive, and it will continue to increase in beauty and diversity even in a sin-imperfect world as time continues. It would explain how Noah would actually be able to fit every animal type, although every type of animal could have easily merely been the ones that were created specifically, while leaving all of the descendant species to die in the coming flood.
It would also explain the sheer variety we have now despite the limited number that survived the flood.
I mean, maybe there are a few things that God created specifically to keep us guessing and remembering that He designed it all, such as the duck-billed Platypus, Viruses, and other weird organisms that don't seem to make sense and are outside the norm of what one would expect even when trying to trace it's ancestry as evolutionists attempt to do.
What do you Intelligent Design and creationists think about this idea?