Flooding in Colorado caused by HAARP

[Shawn Schuman]

I have to admit when I got into advanced physics class, relativity and special relativity... time dilation and length contraction... some of that stuff was hard to grasp. Plus the math got to be a pain. But I generally do ok with concepts. I think I understand the theories, and I've seen what has been said to be evidence of big bang, evolution, etc.... We are to believe it just happened, and more and more complex species arose from less complex. But the examples given are always evolution within a species by the process of natural selection, which no one denies. I've not seen even a best guess as to how a single-cell organism could evolve into a single-cell organism with a motor. There are no single-cell organisms with parts of motors, for example, and evolution by natural selection sort of says there shouldn't be. But anyway, I can't muster up enough faith to believe it all just happened so it is easier for me to believe in a higher power that did it. I've yet to see any proof the Bible is wrong. It is a simplified account of what actually happened, no doubt.

I'm not sure what you mean here. All evolution is "evolution within a species" in a sense. One species doesn't suddenly become another one, it's a gradual process of mutations - sometimes very subtle and sometimes significantly different - building up over time. What specific point do you choose to delineate where one "species" became another. "Species" aren't exactly real things anyway, they're an artificial construct humans created to try and impose some order on the world - reminds me of Charles Doswell's saying that "nature simply produces vortices, it's up to us to decide what to call them." Sometimes it's obvious, but oftentimes it isn't. For example, that's why the idea of a "missing link" is misguided. Look at the evolution of hominids and how many different species we're aware of so far. Which one of them is the "missing link"? Each of them displays some differences, occasionally significant but mostly small changes. They're all missing links in the sense that they fill in another spot on the long, indistinct, non-linear gradient between whatever it is that we artificially categorize "ape" and "man."

I won't touch the "no proof the Bible is wrong" because I don't think it's my place to try and change or challenge what you choose to believe, I just think there are a lot of misunderstandings out there about what evolution is and how it works. Same for the Big Bang theory, except that even the scientists who work on it directly don't necessarily understand exactly what happened or how.