There is no doubt that evolution is a fact. It is the only conceivable explanation for how a complex intelligence of any type could arise in the universe. As a million creationists have already pointed out, complex things don't just come out of nowhere by chance. They come into existence only by small incremental changes to self-replicating beings whose occasional mutations provide a gene pool in which natural selection selects more advantageous forms for surviving and replicating in a given environment. If there is an intelligence complex enough to design universes out there, then it must have evolved somehow. And if it evolved, it does not deserve the name "God".

Sorry to burst your bubbles, but we are apes. The DNA sequences of the primates have been studied extensively, and mathematically it's simply impossible that our DNA just looks exactly like it's descended from ape DNA through sheer luck. Either God is trying to trick us into thinking we're closely related to the other ape species, or we really are apes.

And honestly, if you were God, why would you create man in your own image, and then go on to make chimpanzees in 97% of your own image, and gorillas in 95% of your own image, and so forth? Why would you even design it so their junk DNA (the huge strands of DNA that don't do anything at all) looks uncannily similar to each other?

Why would you go around making DNA strands that can be arranged in hierarchical evolutionary trees that look mathematically identical to what we would expect from random modifications and Darwinian natural selection? Why would you place abundant fossil evidence of proto-human like creatures, the Australopithecines and the various species of Homo, to make it look like there is a continuous line between apes and humans?

The universe is not made for us. We have to get over our arrogant aspirations and accept that. We, and the rest of the life-forms on this planet, are just the product of what happens when natural selection is allowed to develop simple self-replicating molecules into ever more complex forms over geological timescales. There is no giant father figure in the sky looking down on us, guiding our particular species, meticulously looking after the world for our benefit.

In this world without meaning are those who pretend
that their lives and their deeds serve some grand cosmic end
and that they are the reason for all that exists
and the fate of the cosmos is right in their fists

And to them we're not apes with less hair and big brains,
we're the center of everything there's to explain!
Not just masses of atoms traversing through space,
rather far grander things from a far grander place!

We're just specks on this planet which, I do believe,
is much larger than anything we can conceive,
and that planet's a speck to its star that's a speck
in a universe which is gigantic as heck!
Oneironaut Reviewed by Oneironaut on . Some of my issues with "intelligent design." I don't mean this as an attack on anybody for holding such beliefs, but I do bleieve it's essential to give serious and logical consideration to both sides of such a claim. It's nobody's "fault" for holding beliefs for or against god, but merely their belief that their reasoning is sound, is what's faulty. That being said... INTELLIGENT DESIGN: Before considering intelligent design, also consider this; does it not seem a bit suspicious to you that that we carry SO many behavioral Rating: 5