reply to post by Daedal
In regards to creation my question is...Do humans create or evolve.
Humans create lots of stuff... and we also evolve...
The only way IMO to evolve you must be able to pro - create.
If you are using the term "Pro-Create" as PROCREATE, meaning to reproduce... then yes... Evolution is necessarily dependant upon Genetic
Replication, and cannot exist without it (Unless you do some form of cloning from germ-line cells... but that would sort of be reproduction also)
Is it possible to even have evolution without the ability to pro - create what has already been created?
No, it is not possible to Evolve, if no reproduction is taking place, because Evolution is a By-product of Reproduction.
I guess what I'm trying to say is in order for their to be an evolutionary process, birth and creation has to take place in order for the
evolutionary process to continue.
I find the word "Creation" highly suspect.... However, disregarding that (obvious) verbal slip, yes, you are correct, without Reproduction, birth,
sporeing, or some OTHER form of replication.... Evolution is impossible.
Without this we wouldn't be here to begin with.
The Theory of Evolution does not encompass the origins of life...
The theory only concerns the replication of organisms with identifiable genetic codes.
What you are talking about isn't covered by the theory of Evolution, and I would suggest looking at the theory of Abiogenesis for more accurate
information in line with what you are talking about.
life has to be pro - created to reproduce offspring and bring into being that which is being replicated from it's creator.
You keep using the word "Created" and "Pro-Created".... I suspect that you separated the word "Procreated" into "Pro-Created" to somehow bring the
topic of religion into your discussion....
You should probably stay away from that, because it's not entirely necessary that you do this.
Our current theories on the origin of life (From it's inception) are somewhat hazy, due to our lack of evidence from the time period in question
(about 3 billion years ago... fossils of lipids and such don't normally survive in fossil form for that long.)
The current Theory of Abiogenesis is a hypothesis of HOW it might be possible for life to form from a complex organic soup.
Now, bear in mind... we don't really have any EVIDENCE that life formed this way... but considering that Science itself cannot allow for "Magical"
creation methods, we have to use the basic laws of the universe that we can actually observe to make a Scientific explanation for life.
That's not to say that the First proto-life forms on earth WEREN'T *created*, by God, Aliens, or whatever....
But, since we have about as much proof for Aliens, or God creating life on earth, as we do for the flying spaghetti monster creating life on earth....
we must attempt to explain the origins of life through purely natural means (No Magic, No Alien Intervention, etc...)
Now, what is very important to understand, is that We actually have no Proof that Abiogenesis (The bio-chemical theory) actually HAPPENED.
What Abiogenesis actually IS, is the Study of how life *COULD* have arisen without "Outside Interference"
And, from what we have learned, toying with various primordial chemicals... is that it is *POSSIBLE* for these primitive cell like structures to
spontaneously form, and then to gradually increase in complexity through very specific ways.
Now, we don't know *IF* that is what actually happened.... but, given what we understand of the natural world, IT is Scientifically possible that it
COULD have happened this way, and THAT is what the "Theory of Abiogeneis" is studying... How life COULD have arisen by completely natural means.
The theory of Evolution is basically a FACT, in that we can prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that Evolutionary processes actually Occur.
And we can trace our Genetic Lineage back Pretty far into the past. (Common Genetic Ancestor of All the the Kingdoms of life, Animalia, Plantae,
Fungi, Protista, Archaea, and Bacteria.)
en.wikipedia.org...
Abiogenesis is the study of how Cells, and Genetic Structures MAY HAVE ARISEN.
So, as you can see.... that leaves you a little wiggle room...
Therefore is it safe to assume that evolution is the continuation of creation.
In science, it is NEVER safe to assume anything.
edit on 30-11-2011 by ErtaiNaGia because: (no reason given)