Darwinian evolution isn't the whole story. It's pretty easy to prove that Darwinian evolutionary mechanisms do work by breeding animals or plants in a laboratory setting. It's far more difficult, perhaps impossible, to show that Darwinian evolution is how speciation occurs in the real world.
www.macroevolution.net, the website of Dr. Eugene McCarthy who wrote 'The Handbook of Avian Hybrids', considered the bible in it's field, proposes that hybridization is the primary mechanism causing speciation, and this far better matches the fossil record than incremental Darwinian mechanisms.
However, I don't think you would find Stability Theory, McCarthy's proposal, at all preferable to the standard Darwinian model. I suspect that many adherents to Abrahamic religious traditions refuse to consider any mechanism that isn't direct miraculous creation by God.
All I can say to encourage you to consider non-miraculous mechanisms is to point out that the Bible does not detail the mechanism God used to create life. I recall reading that God created Adam from the dust of the Earth, and how He did this is not particularly described. Given that every scientific theory of the origin of life necessarily begins from that dust, I don't see how any of them contradict Biblical text.
The Genesis story is a very brief synopsis of the origin of life, and contains zero details as to specific actions and tools God may have used to create the universe. Believing some guy who claims that God didn't do this, or must have done it that way, isn't biblical at all, and the actual Bibical and earlier Genetic accounts leave plenty of room for speculation on how He created the things He created.
Evolution in some form or another certainly does happen today, and anyone with a sunny windowsill can prove this themselves. I think claiming God didn't use the mechanisms He created that are operating today when He did stuff a long time ago has no reasonable basis in fact.
Perhaps having faith in God is not an impediment to considering how God does things. Having faith in ordinary people who claim to know more about God then we do sure is.
You can prove evolution does happen by growing peas on your windowsill. This does not mean God did or didn't create peas. Maybe it shows how God created peas.
Darwinian evolution isn't the whole story. It's pretty easy to prove that Darwinian evolutionary mechanisms do work by breeding animals or plants in a laboratory setting. It's far more difficult, perhaps impossible, to show that Darwinian evolution is how speciation occurs in the real world.
www.macroevolution.net, the website of Dr. Eugene McCarthy who wrote 'The Handbook of Avian Hybrids', considered the bible in it's field, proposes that hybridization is the primary mechanism causing speciation, and this far better matches the fossil record than incremental Darwinian mechanisms.
However, I don't think you would find Stability Theory, McCarthy's proposal, at all preferable to the standard Darwinian model. I suspect that many adherents to Abrahamic religious traditions refuse to consider any mechanism that isn't direct miraculous creation by God.
All I can say to encourage you to consider non-miraculous mechanisms is to point out that the Bible does not detail the mechanism God used to create life. I recall reading that God created Adam from the dust of the Earth, and how He did this is not particularly described. Given that every scientific theory of the origin of life necessarily begins from that dust, I don't see how any of them contradict Biblical text.
The Genesis story is a very brief synopsis of the origin of life, and contains zero details as to specific actions and tools God may have used to create the universe. Believing some guy who claims that God didn't do this, or must have done it that way, isn't biblical at all, and the actual Bibical and earlier Genetic accounts leave plenty of room for speculation on how He created the things He created.
Evolution in some form or another certainly does happen today, and anyone with a sunny windowsill can prove this themselves. I think claiming God didn't use the mechanisms He created that are operating today when He did stuff a long time ago has no reasonable basis in fact.
Perhaps having faith in God is not an impediment to considering how God does things. Having faith in ordinary people who claim to know more about God then we do sure is.
You can prove evolution does happen by growing peas on your windowsill. This does not mean God did or didn't create peas. Maybe it shows how God created peas.
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