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Originally Posted by Megan1
I’m not studying evolution in high school, never have. My science classes don’t teach it. I’m currently learning things like PH levels, amino acids, etc. And I have a B in science.
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Then you should be able to understand what the basic premises of science are yet you haven't been showing that on this thread. If your science classes don't teach evolution, then how and where did you obtain the incorrect information regarding evolution? Did someone tell it to you one day or did you take the effort and look it up on a non-scientific website?
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Originally Posted by Megan1
I just explained why the timing that scientists use is wrong. Read the last post of mine that you quoted.
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Your explanation involved god putting a curse on the Earth and having it age faster. That is not a scientific explanation. If you're going to say the scientific timing method is incorrect, then give a scientific explanation.
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Originally Posted by Megan1
The person who originally brought up evolution in this thread was talking about Adam and Eve and why evolution supposedly disproves them. I know that wasn’t you. And the bible doesn’t say that the rib bone is what determined Eve’s gender, it just said that God used it to make her. It doesn’t say how her gender was determined. Plus, it doesn’t try to say that all humans are made that way. That’s just how the first 2 humans were, and from there God set up the system of reproduction.
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The rib bone of Adam is what was used to make Eve. I never said it was used for sex determination. To quote myself, I said "
...not to mention Eve was made from a bone from Adam". After that I mentioned sex determination in the fetus. This answer though makes no sense. For god to set up the system of reproduction after Adam and Eve were made, that means they were first living with no gentialia and no reproductive system then suddenly, *BAM*, they got some.
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Originally Posted by Megan1
I understand more of what evolution is now from your posts and reading those links that you posted. I understand that it is scientifically possible. I understand that both the bible and evolution can’t be proven or disproven, and that you can't really believe both.....so you have to choose which one to believe. I chose God.
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They are not mutually exclusive, you can believe in both. Alternatively, you can believe in what ATP747 mentioned of theistic evolution, although that's not considered scientific. Some of my professors are religious and of them, one of them taught an advanced comparative evolutionary biology course. He never once mentioned he was religious, never included religion in his lectures and the way I found out was from anecdotal evidence, then later seeing he wore a little cross on a thin chain (which is funny because for our final exam he came in wearing a hat with devil-like horns).
Why do you think they are mutually exclusive? Is it because one is science and one is religion? Charles Darwin was religious (or agnostic), assisted local churches and obtained a Bachelor's degree in theology. He once said:
"Science has nothing to do with Christ, except insofar as the habit of scientific research makes a man cautious in admitting evidence. For myself, I do not believe that there ever has been any revelation. As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities"