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Let's think for a moment about the evolution's position, there is no God. Removing God from the picture leaves no boundaries, no foundation, no purpose, and thus all that is left is for man to evolve himself to survive.
Who is to say that GOD didn't form all existence and allow for life to change over time?

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Who is to say that GOD didn't form all existence and allow for life to change over time?

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No one alive and on Earth today. Nobody's memory extends that far back. Only God knows from direct knowledge. People rely on evidence for their knowledge of history and the evidence comes from from rocks, radiation, astronomy, archeology, and written records.
 

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No one alive and on Earth today. Nobody's memory extends that far back. Only God knows from direct knowledge. People rely on evidence for their knowledge of history and the evidence comes from from rocks, radiation, astronomy, archeology, and written records.
I'm quite aware of the evidence for evolution. I was attempting to say that creation and evolution can and do work together.

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Who is to say that GOD didn't form all existence and allow for life to change over time?

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adaptive evolving is different from evolution which is a complete change into a new creature. Premordial soup to complex humans is evolution. Growing taller, shorter, fatter, stronger, weaker, changing skin color, eye colors, hair colors, are adaptive evolving, taking the DNA of parents [the dominant/ recessive genes] for different combinations of the next generation. We have not any evolution into viable mutant of a new kind.
 

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adaptive evolving is different from evolution which is a complete change into a new creature. Premordial soup to complex humans is evolution. Growing taller, shorter, fatter, stronger, weaker, changing skin color, eye colors, hair colors, are adaptive evolving, taking the DNA of parents [the dominant/ recessive genes] for different combinations of the next generation. We have not any evolution into viable mutant of a new kind.

Biological evolution is adaptive evolution. The genome of a species is not the main focus at every stage of biological evolution the main focus is variation that is inheritable and that can be from genetic changes or from changes in other parts of an organism's cells - mitochondria for example - and from changes in the way genes are expressed which may be due to factors that are not explicitly related to genes.
 

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Biological evolution is adaptive evolution. The genome of a species is not the main focus at every stage of biological evolution the main focus is variation that is inheritable and that can be from genetic changes or from changes in other parts of an organism's cells - mitochondria for example - and from changes in the way genes are expressed which may be due to factors that are not explicitly related to genes.

These changes are not adaptive enough to move outside of the very purpose they are made for.
 

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These changes are not adaptive enough to move outside of the very purpose they are made for.

Purposes can change. According to Isaiah's prophecy Lions will eat grass like cattle some time in the future. They'd need different teeth and a different digestive system to do that.
 

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Purposes can change. According to Isaiah's prophecy Lions will eat grass like cattle some time in the future. They'd need different teeth and a different digestive system to do that.
The reason why this carnivore eat grass is because they need the fibre present in the grass to ease the indigestion, if they are unable to get the required fibre from the stomach contents of herbivorous prey.

I had a dog that was vegetarian, got it out of the pound, treated it like a regular dog, but it robbed the garbage of cucumber peelings, tomato skins, and refused to eat the dog food. Once I saw that it lived off the table vegetable scraps. It didn't have different teeth.
 

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The reason why this carnivore eat grass is because they need the fibre present in the grass to ease the indigestion, if they are unable to get the required fibre from the stomach contents of herbivorous prey.

I had a dog that was vegetarian, got it out of the pound, treated it like a regular dog, but it robbed the garbage of cucumber peelings, tomato skins, and refused to eat the dog food. Once I saw that it lived off the table vegetable scraps. It didn't have different teeth.

Lions are not vegetarians today :)
 

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Nope and neither is man
 

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The majority are not
 

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Doesn't matter if the majority are not vegetarian, a lot of people are and I can't think of any wild lion that is.
 

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It was what I wrote. I said "wild lion". Didn't you notice?
 

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It was what I wrote. I said "wild lion". Didn't you notice?
You read the story, and you read the lion choosing to be vegetarian as a cub while wild.
 

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