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Originally Posted by BroGary
Non-humans can only produce non-humans, and not non-humans evolving into humans.
You can have different breeds of dogs, but that is not the same as different species.
They may have been refuted "in your mind", but I do not believe they were truely refuted.
Evolution was fabricated as part of a humanist effort to turn people away from the God of the Bible.
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Evolution was an observed process that was universally held by the educated masses in the West long before Charles Darwin came on the scene. It was C. Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin who help to organize the discussion and is generally credited with coining the term "evolution." There was obviously a long discussion already in the works that was wanting the minting of the term.
You seem to err on a couple of other points as well. "Humanism" during the Renaissance was simply a field of study where the subject of study was human beings. "Classical humanism" was and still is a branch of university study that was developed by Christians and for Christians.
That more recent groups of "neo-humanists" have turned toward atheistic and entirely materialistic studies shouldn't cause us to trash the term "humanist.' You wouldn't even have you King James Bible if it weren't for the long and hard labors of the humanist Desiderius Erasmus, for whom Erasmus Darwin was named.
You said different "kinds" of dogs earlier, after defining just what you thought a "kind" was according to your overly literalistic reading of
Genesis 1. Now, you offer the term "breeds."
Could it be that you were actually on the path toward truth all along? What happens when a particular breed of dog is so "different" from other breeds that it can no longer mate with those other breeds? This is an event called "speciation."
One example of an observed instance of speciation would be the famous case of the mule. Horses and donkeys evolved from a common ancestor. Due to their geographic isolation from one another their genes "drifted" apart as well. In time, humans corralled both donkeys and horses and tried to hybridize them. The result was the infertile mule.
If the donkeys and horses had been kept isolated from one another for an even longer period of time, they would not be able to breed with each other at all.
Did God create both donkeys and horses? Two separate species? If so, what's a mule? An "abomination? But then, why do these two separate species (horses and donkeys) produce any kind of offspring at all?
It's like we're observing the "in between" of a complex process. You're "fixed species" model simply doesn't provide any answers here.
Christian evolutionary scientists:
http://www.asa3online.org/home/
... which is somewhat redundant. If you don't understand and support evolutionary theory then you're really not a "scientist" at all.