>>>>Another answer is creation: God did it.
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>>>>Obviouslly, I see a strength in the evolution answer in that it gives us some details as opposed to just pushing it off into the hands of a supernatural being.
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>>>While I personally believe in God, I think that just saying "God did it" still leaves the question unanswered: "What was the method He used?" I think that evolution played an important part in the answer.
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>>>In other words, the fact that a person believes in God doesn't necessarily mean he has to reject most of modern science.
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>>I agree that there is SOME evolution, but the facts don't bear out the evolutionists arguments as has been discussed here ad nauseum. However, how can we possibly understand how God created the universe?
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>"How did God create the Universe" is an entirely different question than "why are human beings on Earth?"
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>That you (and I) profess ignorance of the first doesn't mean that we should remain ignorant about the second.
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>In other words, the fact that a person believes in God doesn't necessarily mean he has to reject most of modern science.

Mike, I'm not saying I reject most of modern science. I reject any science that doesn't square with the Bible. Too much of it has been disproven. Many of the scientists today (and forever, I guess) are extremely dogmatic. Anyone who has a different take becomes an infidel immediately. Remember how they ridiculed Columbus for thinking the world wasn't flat? Ptolemy said he had counted the stars in the sky and come up with a definite number, Ptolemy counted 1,056. At that time the old testament said the host of heaven cannot be numbered” (Jeremiah 33:22), while also comparing “the sand which is upon the sea shore” to “the stars of the heaven” in multitude (Genesis 22:17).

I profess to know very little about the origin of man, or species, or earth, or much of anything else. It astonishes me though that someone would take a dogmatic position on evolution when therer is so much evidence that shoots holes in the theory. Then to go beserk when someone says, well what about this other theory? That's my problem with the whole argument. Let both sides be fully aired, then let those who want to believe in a particular theory defend their position. I think there has been some "evolution" like the way I'm 6'2" tall whereas my dad was only 5'10". My brothers are both over 6' tall too and I think that has to do with the environment we were raised in, plus the fact that my mom was 5'8" tall. I think you could say people, in general, have evolved into larger beings due to better health and nutrition. As for a person coming from an ape, there's absolutely no proof of that and I doubt there ever will be.