Aubrey,
If you believe in evolution, then you must believe we come from monkeys right?
Just one question......If we came from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys?

Evolution is a theory to try to explain something that makes "smart" scientists feel dumb.

Aubrey,

"..havn't you heard that a hundred years ago people were smaller? we are evolving into a taller species..."

Actually it has to do with better diets. The quickest proof is that in Japan, the generations born after WWIIand Korea showed an immediate increase in height due to the change in diet - today's children are significantly taller than their grandparents born in the 1940s.

Here in the US the same thing has happened. My family is a case in point. I was born in the early forties, and my sister six years later. Al though we are both taller than our parents, my sister is signifcantly taller than my mother as compared to my height over my father. The difference - my mother's war-time diet improved and she took vitamin pills during her second pregnancy.

One other point... Girls are physically maturing early at an alarming rate in the last twenty years. A friend has a teenage granddaughter who began having her period at the age of eight.
Just take a look at girls in junior high - they sure didn't look like that when I was their age. Scientists tell us it's because of the artificial hormones pumped into cows and chickens.

The above have nothing to do with evolution. You say "evolution is a gradual, very slow process." Well based on the theory of evolution that tiny changes took thousands or million of years, it's not likely that the general increase in height over just a 100 year period has anything to do with evolution but something as simple as a better diet and vitamin pills.

Ijoe said-----The bible was written by man...nuff said.
I respond-----True, but inspired by God the writting was...nuff said.

The General "Theory" of Relativity describes gravity as a theory.

Is gravity a theory?

Growing up around this area I don't remember coming across many adults who did not believe in the God of the bible. Now I tell lots of my Christian friends that if they want to see how many people there are here who are agnostic or atheist, just read the comment section of blogs or articles in VA.com that pertain to anything to do with God or religion. We have some here that will shake their fist at our Savior even after they realize He is alive and well right here on old planet Sodom, err earth.

The bible was written by man...nuff said.

Here we go again, more preaching in a NEWSpaper.

How is this news?

What is this guy writing about Jesus to the editor of a paper for?

Proselytizing and evangelicizing should not be letters to the editor.

I'm not a conspiracy freak but I would almost bet there are some preachers "suggesting" that letters to the editor would be a good way to "bring Jesus into people's lives".

Do they REALLY think they can convince someone to believe in their religion if they don't already believe in religion?

Come on Editor, enough with this stuff....it's stupid.

I understand the geology of the theory, but where are the links? If you want me to think LUCY, casual observation by a normal person says absolutely not. I also question the carbon dating as inconsistencies in the system creates error. All of the physical evidence is close, but it proves nothing because there are no links. I do however accept the fact that amphibians change from gilled to lung and air breathing animals. Simple physical changes are part of the development of the species not proof of evolution steps within the species.
If I could ever see the link between a jelly fish and trout or a reptile and a mammal, I would change my views. I don't count the platypus because there is only one of its kind. If someone would discover the DNA remnants of any species that ties directly into the next evolved species I would consider evolution possibly as God's plan. I would still give God the credit for the creation.

"Every day, hundreds of observations and experiments pour into the hopper of the scientific literature… and every fact that has something to do with evolution confirms its truth. Every fossil that we find, every DNA molecule that we sequence, every organ system that we dissect supports the idea that species evolved from common ancestors. Despite innumerable possible explanations that could prove evolution untrue, we don’t have a single one. We don’t find mammals in Precambrian rocks, humans in the same layers as dinosaurs, or any other fossils out of evolutionary order. DNA sequencing supports the evolutionary relationships of species originally deduced from the fossil record. And, as natural selection predicts, we find no species with adaptations that benefit only a different species. We do find dead genes and vestigial organs, incomprehensible under the idea of special creation. Despite a million chances to be wrong, evolution always comes up right. That is as close as we can get to a scientific fact." -- Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True.

Evolution is still a theory, not fact.

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Evolution is a fact. How life began does not change the fact!And Markus what if you picked the wrong religion?

I think a lot of people confuse mutation or gene alteration with evolution. Like this new flu out there. It is a combination of swine, bird, and human flu. The DNA of this virus must be amazing to see. Both of my sons were able to practice gene alterations in high school biology. The experiment involved multi-celled organisms. Only God could create something from nothing, and that is the basis of faith.

Ignore Aubrey! His comments always are full of contempt for Christians. Just keep praying, I do.

Gohlke doesn't understand that Evolution and Christianity are not mutually exclusive. Quite a few Christian denominations believe that evolution is a scientific fact. Scientists accept evolution as a fact much in the same way as gravity is accepted as a fact.

Some people want Christianity to exclude evolution because they don't want to consider anything but a literal interpretation of the Bible. Accepting evolution creates cognitive dissonance for them.