Evolution exists right from the beginning of life.
But why does the bible preaches 'Creation'?
In a sense, both complement each other only in the
context of human creation.
Genesis 1: 27: So God created man in his own image, in the image of
God he created him; male and female he created them.
Creation here doesn't mean that pre-human doesn't exist, and human
are created out of nothingness, but rather, an intervention from
our creator - God.
One thing clear that distinct ourselves from the rest of the living
organisms is our seemingly advanced and developed nervous system -
the emergence of consciousness, the awareness of our surroundings,
and higher order level of cognition.
Simply said, we're intellectually superior in all aspect compared
to the rest of the living organisms.
In fact, it befuddles people, that we ourselves as homo sapien
actually exist; the fact that we ought not to be evolved in this
way. Evolution is a fact, it represents the truth of life and how
organisms adapt to changing environment, yet humans cannot simply
exists because a very developed nervous system doesn't correlate
with the then existing environment that doesn't requires higher
order cognition - there is no need for the homo species to develop
so abruptly in the nervous system at all! Look around us, the
animal kingdom is still as it is, the basic instinct suffice their
survivability, still.
Perhaps, the only species to have developed a certain degree of
higher intelligence is the now extinct Neanderthal.
The point of divergence between Neanderthal and homo sapiens'
ancestor occurred somewhere between 355,000years ago to
150,000years ago - this could be the time period when God created
the first man and woman which results in the creation of homo
sapiens apart from the homo neanderthalensis that ought to be the
normal evolution pathway.
Time is rather a relative thing, and carbon 14 dating may give a
rough estimate but never an absolute one. Since evolution on
macroscale takes a long process, God may or may not create human in
one day, but rather span the creation over a period of time. Since
a day to God doesn't equates to a day to Human. (Talking about
space-time here, twin paradox and stuff, my physics sucks but time
is a relative thing.)
Many people has interpreted the bible literally - thinking that God
has literally created humans out of nothingness, thus sparking the
nonsensical creationist point of view but they never looked at the
relationship between evolution and creation, but rather shut
themselves off evolution and uses creationism as a means to rebuke
(albeit pathetic) the theory of evolution.
For assert my point that humans undergone evolution as well as
intervention aka "Creation" by God is the rapid emergence of the
human accelerated region (HAR) genes that holds the key to
understand the abrupt divergence and rapid growth in brain
development which enables us humans to reign supreme over other
animals forever.
"It's evolving incredibly
rapidly," Pollard said. "It's really an extreme case."
Pollard is an assistant professor at the University of California
who herself developed a technique that discovered the HAR
region.
Excepts from
http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2006/08/17/researchers_identify_human_dna_on_the_fast_track.html
"Some DNA regions have hardly changed at all over many millions of
years in most species," said Pollard. "My twist was to look for the
subset of these regions that have changed just in humans."
Forty-nine regions, which the team called human accelerated regions
(HARs), rose to the top of the list. Surprisingly, only two of
these regions code for proteins. Instead, the majority of the
regions tend to be located near genes that are involved in
regulating the function of genes. Furthermore, 12 of the regions
are adjacent to genes involved in the development of the
brain.
The Nature paper looks in depth at the region that has undergone
the most change in the human lineage, which the researchers called
HAR1 (for human accelerated region 1). Only two of the region's 118
bases changed in the 310 million years separating the evolutionary
lineages of the chicken and the chimp. Incredibly, since the human
lineage separated from that of the chimp, 18 of the 118 nucleotides
have changed. This region "stood out," said Pollard.
Could it due to purely luck that at such a short period of time
human spawn out abruptly because of a need to survive (aka survival
of the fittest) in a natural selection, or is it because there is a
direct intervention from a superior being?
We're supposed to head into the evolutionary pathway of the
neanderthals, but we didn't. We're not supposed to be the tertiary
consumers, but we did. The balance of our world's ecosystems are
disrupted by the existence of humans. We ruin the world's beautiful
emergence of life by being a parasite that feeds onto the resources
of the very Earth we live in.
We did all that not because we have extreme agility, strength but
because of the ability to execute higher order cognitive ability.
And all these are a direct contradiction to how evolution should
take us to. Humans shouldn't exist in the first place, evolution
doesn't takes us on to the path of homo sapiens but to the now
extinct neanderthals.
If such an abrupt changes could have made happened, it could only
meant one thing - that there is external intervention. A direct
analogy could well be our manipulation of restriction enzymes that
allows us to perform genetic engineering. Insertion of gene of a
firefly into tobacco plant such that they glow, just like the
firefly themselves - to state an example. Or the creation of
transgenic cows that produce more milk than otherwise would not be
necessary by Nature's law?
We were created in the image of God. And now we're doing the same
thing, because we derived from Him.
Creationism, Evolutionism and Intelligent Design does not have to
be at odds with each other, because after all, they all seems to
make sense to me.
- my 2cents. (=
