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I do not know what the most recent findings are, but our species goes back to a hominid scientists named Lucy. She is described as a bipedal animal, which we call Australopithecus, and is the earliest remains we have of a Homo specimen. I don't recall whether she is a Home Sapien, Homo Erectus, or some other hominid, (not important) but just take it that she was alive and walking on two legs, like us. Do not know whether she knew how to make fire, plant crops yet. But she used simple tools. In this area, we've observed modern chimpanzees and other monkeys using stones and sticks as tools, so we can conclude that tool-usage was acquired along the way (of evolution). We've since learnt to make and use more tools, the computer is one of the more current things we've come up with. God didn't teach us how to make plastic. This, was accumulated knowledge in Chemistry, spurred by techonological and commercial progress that allowed us to synthesize it. We're on our own, those of you who wish to depend on God can do so, but the rest of humanity, we'll have to pave the road we're taking. That means thinking for ourselves. And not listening to some "wise" sage wish some message from the divine being.
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But this begs the question, did humans evolve from some apelike ancestor which in turn evolve from some other creature which goes all the way back to the UCA? For the atheist the story of evolution (yes, you read it correctly, it’s a story) is the only origins story available to tell. And what exactly is the evidence for human evolution? As far as I know, there are more speculations and illustrations than actual hard evidence, and the evidences that we have for so-called evolution are usually the tiny bone fragments from which is extrapolated an entire made up apeman! Talk about vivid imagination! It is not about needing answers urgently, but about what the evidence really shows, and what beliefs are driving the conclusions. Is there any reason to reject a traditional answer that God made us? Or are you just rejecting it because it is a traditional answer? Old or new, the answer must be true to be accepted. If God is the only answer to the question, then why run away from the answer, or are you running away from God? Just a few days ago the newspapers ran an article on the dragonfly and said about how the insect was a master of flight that was “DESIGNED BY NATURE”. Wow, read that again, designed by nature? Designed? Our human experience tells us that the word “designed” is associated with intelligence, a creative intelligent mind no less! The article credits nature with that ability to design the dragonfly for flight? Something is wrong isn’t it? But the evolutionist and atheist would blindly nod in agreement at that statement. That’s being blinded by the atheism worldview.