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you have to start with something living at some point.  so please enlighten me.  you do understand that abiogensis means life from non-life, correct?  that means that at some point in earth's history there was nothing living, and at some point later the first life form / simple cell, something was formed?

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Absolutely, totally, completely WRONG.

Do consider that those people who saw things, heard things, told their stories, wrote them down, retold them, transcribed them, over and over and over over the ages,  often were very, very uneducated by modern standards.   People living in the dark ages 2000 years ago can not be counted upon to relay accurate information regarding encounters they had and events that occurred that required understanding of things that had not yet been discovered or taught to others.

The biblical story of creation was written by people who could not even conceive of the concept of evolution and when you looked in their minds at the folders marked "science" and the sub-folders marked "archaeology",  "genetics", "chemistry", "geology", and so on and so forth, those folders weren't just EMPTY, they weren't there at all.

At the time it was written, nothing BUT something as fanciful as a creation story could have been written or accepted.

For me to attempt to give you an in-depth education of how to fabricate microprocessors and embed microcode into the logic gates that are mask programmed into them during vapor phase ionic deposition would require you to have a very solid grounding in hardware coding and semiconductor fabrication at the very minimum.

It'd go right over your head if I was even qualified to teach the course.

For the bible to teach the truth of evolution, the audience would have to be educationally ready to accept the lesson.

But we're talking about a bunch of people who thought the elements were air, earth, fire, and water and had no clue the world wasn't flat.

You really think that people should believe stories written by sheepherders over 2000 years ago as literal truth when it comes to how our species came to be?  Seriously?

I do not ridicule your religion.  Truly, I don't.  But you must consider that scriptures are written from the limited understanding available to those who witnessed and wrote them.  TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO.    A time at which the average educational level of people in the world was....incalculably low by modern standards.   They knew enough to survive.  A few better educated ones could even count.   But comprehend evolution?  Hah!  Not hardly!  And how can you write about, and teach, something you don't understand and in fact can't even conceive of?

My version of god is much smarter and much more powerful than yours.  He created the universe and it evolved just the way he wanted it to.  THAT is called PLANNING and EXECUTION.  

You base your belief in creation on the evidence of ONE book.   I base my belief in evolution on evidence that is sufficient to fill a large library without any duplicated information.

One of those is a much more sensible position than the other.  One has abundant evidence.  The other is a book of stories with morality lessons that I generally approve of despite its low technical writing level.

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neither has religion.  However it (religion) has given our souls eternal life.

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Apparently religion has given man the ability to dodge uncomfortable questions.

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We share plenty of dna with reptiles.

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We actually share a LOT of DNA with reptiles. From what I remember in my college genetics class we share 99.9999% of our DNA with other humans, 99% with chimpanzees, 98% with other primates, at least 70% with most other animals (from ants to blue whales), and 50% with the current selectively bred variety of Dessert Bananas.

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Not enough to put us on the same evolutionary path so for the purposes of this discussion the factor is zero.

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The bible says we came from dust, but why is there still dust?

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Leviticus 17:11

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I thought we were talking about evolution here. The paths of reptiles and humans have diverged so greatly that for all intents and purposes we are no longer related except that we are both animals and we both live on Earth.
Maybe we had a common ancestor. Or maybe the DNA we do share is simply the base amount that would be necessary for an animal to live here.
If you discount this common material that all animals share we have little in common with reptiles.

Or maybe we evolved from reptiles.