Gypsy captured my own opinions exactly when she said
"It's not the idea of a divine creator that I object to, it's the idea that that creator made us, then went around telling us not to behave the way it created us to behave"
I too have never denied the existence of a creator, but have yet to be given any evidence that substantiates it. I keep an open mind. A set of rules written by the hands of men do not reflect a God, but merely the ideas and laws reflective of the time they were written in.
Also like Gypsy said (wow Gypsy I think we would get along), evolution has not necessarily stopped. It is a very very slow process, one that we will never see happening in our short lifetimes. But if we indeed have stopped evolving at human form, it is because we have reached a level of technology that means we can now control our environment. Change occurred in response to altering uninhabitable atmospheres. Oxygen would be a toxic gas to humans if we would unable to utilise it. We were once not able to. The random mutations that occurred in cells back before human form, allowed for those species to survive the change in atmosphere, and thus were able to reproduce themselves. There were likely billions and billions of mutations that occurred that did not make living in an oxygen dominated environment possible, and thus those died out. Hence evolution and survival of the fittest.
Gypsy captured my own opinions exactly when she said
"It's not the idea of a divine creator that I object to, it's the idea that that creator made us, then went around telling us not to behave the way it created us to behave"
I too have never denied the existence of a creator, but have yet to be given any evidence that substantiates it. I keep an open mind. A set of rules written by the hands of men do not reflect a God, but merely the ideas and laws reflective of the time they were written in.
Also like Gypsy said (wow Gypsy I think we would get along), evolution has not necessarily stopped. It is a very very slow process, one that we will never see happening in our short lifetimes. But if we indeed have stopped evolving at human form, it is because we have reached a level of technology that means we can now control our environment. Change occurred in response to altering uninhabitable atmospheres. Oxygen would be a toxic gas to humans if we would unable to utilise it. We were once not able to. The random mutations that occurred in cells back before human form, allowed for those species to survive the change in atmosphere, and thus were able to reproduce themselves. There were likely billions and billions of mutations that occurred that did not make living in an oxygen dominated environment possible, and thus those died out. Hence evolution and survival of the fittest.