Evolution – Have You Questioned the Common Ancestor
I have always been interested between the relationship of faith and science. Many people in the science spectrum look down on people on the faith spectrum and vice versa. But I believe the more you question your belief the stronger your belief will be. If you always assume you are right, I’m pretty sure you are wrong about something.
We all have blind spots. Even me.
So let’s question evolution. I don’t have a lot of answers that I have found that sits well with me, but if we ask questions we can try to find the answer. If you never question, you will never try to find anything.
One common misperception is that humans evolved from monkeys or apes.
Humans and monkeys are both primates. But humans are not descended from monkeys or any other primate living today. We do share a common ape ancestor with chimpanzees. It lived between 8 and 6 million years ago. But humans and chimpanzees evolved differently from that same ancestor. All apes and monkeys share a more distant relative, which lived about 25 million years ago. – Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
My question, so if we didn’t come from monkeys but an ancestor of a monkey, why the split? Why are there monkeys and humans? For example, with this reasoning a woman had two children, one was a monkey and one was a human. How is that possible? If a human mates with a human, you get a human. You will not get a more advanced human or a totally different species. If that happened back then (science says millions of years ago) why hasn’t there been any documentation of a woman having a new species in the last 6,000 years?
This statement from the Smithsonian doesn’t make sense. It seemed that they couldn’t explain it so the only thing plausible was evolution.
In science, gaps in knowledge are the driving force behind the ongoing study of the natural world and how it arose. The science of human origins is a vibrant field in which new discoveries continually add to our understanding of how we became human. You can learn about some of the most recent findings in this exhibit. – Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Gaps in knowledge…so the Smithsonian states there are gaps.
Some gaps are reasonable. 1, 2, 3, ?, 5, 6. We all can agree that the gap is 4. Based upon mathematics we know this gap because we have seen the numbering’s in various scenarios.
But the gap for evolution is a gap no one has ever seen, so assuming to explain this gap as a different species birthed a new species seems very Sci-Fi or Marvel comic bookish.
Science points to human skulls during this period as proof of evolution. They show skulls that have changed or evolved. But what if the not fully developed skulls they are looking at actually had a skull deformity.
If you do a search for skull deformities, you will see skulls that look like prehuman skulls.
How can they know that it was evolution and not a deformity?
Babies are born with their skull not properly fused, but they tend to fuse together normally. But even today, not all skulls form normally. Surgeries are needed, medical procedures and braces are used, vitamins and medicine are taken.
If some skulls today can look like the prehistoric skulls that scientists are looking at, have they considered deformities?
Once again, I do not have answers, only questions.
May we continue to question. Science is good, but science is also so big that we haven’t discovered everything yet. What if we haven’t discovered that evolution is a theory, but not totally factual? May we continue to seek.
Just a thought.
Peace
