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Evolution, Creationism, or Genetic Engineering, or all 3?

I think Genesis sounds more like God interfering with evolution, with his own type of genetic engineering. Modern animals were made "after their kind" that is similar in DNA structure to their prehistoric counterparts.

Remember, in geology, about 10-12,000 years ago there was a mass extinction of life on earth during the Pleistocene-Halocene boundary. I take it then that Genesis is not an account of the creation of the earth, but an account of the restoration of the earth after some catastrophic incident occurred. For example see recent article (July 2009) Comet Killed Ice Age Beasts:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534137,00.html...

http://www.livescience.com/animals/070521_comet_cl...

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  • 1 decade ago
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    1. Genesis explicitly implies that god made all of the animals; genetic engineering requires existing specimens to modify.

    2. God modeling modern animals after prehistoric ones brings up several questions: who created the originals?, how do you explain the evolution in organisms before this engineered creation? why would god do that? How is your argument any less absurd then Last Thursdayism?

    3. Never, ever use fox news as if it a legitimate news source (its not)

    4. If creation was recent then why does some of the "evidence" for the global flood date back to before this creation?

    5. Evolution and creation are completely separate fields. You need to specify what exactly it is you are asking. This argument is absurd in evolution, maybe relevant in creation, and genetic engineering is incidental to your argument.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The "mass extinction" around the Pleistocene-Halocene boundary was a result of an ice age. There's no evidence that any "god" had anything to do with it, or anything else.

    You can try to fit genesis to anything you want to -- the bottom line is that it *doesn't* fit any known events, and there's no evidence of any kind to suggest any god ever did anything.

    Peace.

  • 1 decade ago

    The Prophets

    In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful:

    [21:104]

    The day when We shall roll up the heaven as the Scribe rolls up the written scroll. As We began the first creation, We shall repeat it - a promise binding on Us. Truly We shall do [that].

    The Prophets

    In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful:

    [21:30]

    Have they not realised, those who disbelieve, that the heavens and the earth were closed together and then We parted them, and We made, of water every living thing? Will they not then believe?

    [21:31]

    And We set in the earth firm mountains lest it should shake with them, and We set in them ravines, as roads that perhaps they may be guided.

    [21:32]

    And We made the heaven a roof preserved; and yet of the signs thereof, they are disregardful.

    The Mansions of the Stars

    In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful:

    [85:13]

    Assuredly it is He Who originates and restores,

    Source(s): Quran
  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    An interesting theory, however, the people who wrote Genesis would not have known how old the Earth was, and thus wouldn't have known about the mass extinction.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Genesis also talks about God creating the universe and light. That's not evolution, genetic engineering or anything to do with DNA.

    Nice try.

    Source(s): agnostic
  • Zombie
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Genesis also says a man and his family saved two of every "kind" on a giant magical boat.

    And, of course, your proposal presupposes the existence of a magical deity, which is just silly.

  • 1 decade ago

    Creation. God does not lie. Exodus 20:11.

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