Sorry, but I see no other sensible explanation for the screwed-up bodies that we have than that we evolved from other forms. It’s hard to believe that God is built like this, and he supposedly made us in his own image.
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God doesn’t have a body, He is spirit (pure thought, if you will). Being made in His image means we have the ability to create, and we have free will.
Ummm…I was being facetious…
There is no tradition within Christianity of which I am aware, certainly none in the Catholic Church’s 2000 years, that holds God’s creation of man in His image (per Genesis 1) to be indicative of God’s physical form. Indeed, all tradition and accepted scripture holds that God has no physical form. Thus the “image” spoken of is something other than physical: the human “being” we call a soul, whose consciousness, conscience, etc., are not primarily material phenomena. The difference between man and the animals is not merely one of degree (larger brain, etc.) but of kind. That we are having this discussion evidences that fact.
The only reason Christians over the centuries have accepted artistic portrayals of God as non-blasphemous is that Jesus explicitly assumed a human form in the Incarnation. Read up on the iconoclast controversies of the East if you’re interested in the reasoning behind it.
I’ve always thought that the human body was evidence that God had a sense of humor, and a very twisted one at that.
After seeing your clarification, I apologize for not recognizing facetiousness earlier. Internet comments boxes are so frequently slammed with juvenile caricatures of Christian belief that it’s hard to tell these days whether any given comment arises out of wit, deranged “troofer” hostility, or sincere misconception/questioning.
And I for one never pass up an opportunity to follow His example…
After seeing your clarification, I apologize for not recognizing facetiousness earlier.
That’s all right. It wouldn’t necessarily be obvious, particularly if you’re not a regular reader. It was only the second sentence that was facetious, though, not the first.
Another option – God evolved, and made us like him ‘caus we’re his kids…
As our ability to understand and manipulate DNA increases, I expect a lot of these wrinkles to be ironed out of the species. Our DNA could be overhauled and made much more efficient if you dumped the legacy systems. I wouldn’t even mind a brain transplant into human-male-3.1.17.95876A. I’d pay extra for the eagle-eye option and melanin/chlorophyll substitution that allows for emergency subsistence on air, water and the occasional mineral supplement.
The amusing thing about that is that should our species ever after that point suffer a civilizational collapse and slow (10,000+ year) recovery, the Creationists of that future era would have pretty strong case that man did not evolve from any common ancestors of chimps.
Of course God has a sense of humour. Just look at the Platypus. We’re pretty “normal” compared to them, Andrea.
But, in the interest of quelling species riots, I hereby apologise to the noble Platypus and all of their fans and followers if they were offended by that statement.
The platypus has a poison spine in its foot. Who’s laughing now, Mister? ;p
Given our recent history as a species with cancers, I’ve always figured God had a sense of Tumor.
Granted, the human body is kind of obviously not-intelligently-designed, but by the same metric it’s not very, er, evolved either.
I’ve always just assumed that God was an object oriented programmer, and this was all just really good object reuse.
Yeah, the post-compile product is messy, but look at the code, man!
“I wouldn’t even mind a brain transplant into human-male-3.1.17.95876A. I’d pay extra for the eagle-eye option and melanin/chlorophyll substitution that allows for emergency subsistence on air, water and the occasional mineral supplement.”
Hmm…you might like John Scalzi’s novel ‘Old Man’s War.’
“The amusing thing about that is that should our species ever after that point suffer a civilizational collapse and slow (10,000+ year) recovery, the Creationists of that future era would have pretty strong case that man did not evolve from any common ancestors of chimps.”
If we are ever along so far we can photosynthesize, why just not build in a genetic memory to include the rebuild plans for civilization?
Everyone could be born knowing how to develop 19th century machine tools, medicines and technologies.
Whereupon they can engage in 19th century arguments about creationism! 🙂
Don’t be dissin’ the platypus! It has electric field sensors in its bill. Yup, it can see electric fields! Fascinating stuff about it (and lots of other things) in Richard Dawkins’ marvelous The Ancestor’s Tale; highly recommended.