Posted by Cygnus [Cygnus] on November 25, 1999 at 08:18:04 {yaNwUlwC5cKL7zxXW/42L4bdfUTIaI}:
In Reply to: *Oneglove Guess what??? posted by Tom on November 25, 1999 at 00:20:51:
Good points, Tom. May I share what Isaac Asimov had to say relating to this topic:
The notion of evolutionary development of life arose, to a great extent, from the observation of similarities between animals. Wolves and jackals are similar, as are sheep and goats, lions and tigers, horses and donkeys, and so on. Going further, groups of groups are similar in some more fundamental ways, and groups of these larger groups are similar in still more fundamental ways, and so on and so on. The most logical way of explaining this (short of supposing some supernatural agency who created life in this fashion in order to mislead us) is to presume evolutionary development and to weigh the evidence with that in mind. (Beginnings, 1987)
I can understand how the diversity of life and the awe of creation can amaze a person into accepting a creative force. My reasoning as a pseudochristian-JW was that thinking too hard about the origins of species make my head hurt, and it was much simpler to say that "God did it." That appears to be the problem with DeJah's thinking as well.