Where do you stand and why?

Evolution. I don't know anyone who would want to go to heaven if it were filled with holier-than-thou hypocrites. I was an altar boy and played priest as a youngster, until a priest slapped me around for not saying that serving a Tuesday Night Novena (Roman Catholic) was the most amazing thing I'd ever done.
Besides, who'd Cain marry and where'd she come from?

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Fuck. Good question. Food for thought. Without the moon, stars & sun, there was no "time" reference as we see it today. Meaning that on the 1ST, 2ND, 3Rd, 4Th 5TH, 6TH or 7TH day, of "Creation", there very well could have been millions of years in between the "On the 1ST day", to the 7TH day. The first day; light, then it went from there. My belief is that evolution began & has not stopped since.
Plants in veg state grow twice as fast if given 24/7 lighting. Once we had indoor lighting, out average height grew from average 5' 7" to 5' 11".
Each living being has either offense or defense, and all in between, to survive. The frog, for instance,, has no offensive moves, so it evolved into a defensive creature. Webbed feet, camouflaged , etc. The horse, grew longer legs. The Hippo, not too swift, grew the long self-defensive horn. Animals ate certain plants. The plants either grew taller due to the threat, or made a self- defense system, thorns Etc. Giraffes suffered, grew longer necks to survive. Buffalo's could run, so horns was not that big. Spanish Bulls could not run as fast, so grew longer horns- (The Texas Longhorns)
I don't have a clue.

Theistic evolution. ie... evolution happened just like science says but God determines it. Don't know whether He just started things off or whether He's involved in every step. Doesn't matter. Best book to read on the subject is 'The Language of God' by Frances O'Connor. Dude mapped the human genome but is actually a believer.

My parents are typical young-earth-creationists. Obviously that's what I grew up believing. It took until I was 28 to find out that evolution is not based on a foundation of Jello.

Basically, the Bible is not a science book. So we shouldn't look for scientific validation in figurative language.

Another thing- when God spoke the world into existence, it prolly caused a big bang.

Just heard a stat the other day that relates . . . if Earth's creation were a 24 hour clock, Man wouldn't have appeared until the last 2 seconds . . . and look at all the damage done by same. AND it can't all be bad stuff, so figure one second of good.

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I'd giva ya everything I got . . . for little piece of mind

intelligent design, there has to be something higher.

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I have never grown marijuana or intend to. Anything I post is knowledge gained from reading, not personal experience. Any pictures I post were aquired on the web or are fakes.

"Creation" is a myth.

"Evolution" is a scientific theory.

"Creation or evolution?" is like asking chocolate or the Dallas Cowboys?

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I say both. Why? duality would be my answer. One can not exist without the other.

evolution is obvious if you look around at all the wonderful strains that have "evolved" over the last decade. but its pretty amazing that the earth has always had life and other planets dont at least all the ones we know about. maybe there is something special about us? or to look at it another way we were all "created by our evolving mother earth"

I have a theory on who/what God is. God is simply energy in it's pure form...the LIGHT if you will. Just a theory.