Re: 'Abdu'l-Bahá and evolution

On 30 Aug 2005 01:50:16 GMT, "Mark Foster" <mfoster@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>> My guess would be that it means that no direct evidence will be found to show primate lines splitting and changing into humans and modern apes.<<
>
>As someone who has taught the senior-level university course, "Human
>Evolution and Prehistory" (physical anthropology), I would suggest that
>the evidence for the common descent, or ancestry, of humans and other
>apes is overwhelming.
>
>If we are to follow the principle of the harmony of the sciences with
>our religion -- that the function of sciences is to protect Baha'is
>from falling into religious superstition -- then rejecting evolutionary
>biology for a version of old-earth creationism, as have many
>evangelical Christians, would be highly inappropriate.

If I might interject the Discovery channel aired a show titled "The
Mind's Big Bang" might be of interest. The premise is that there was
a quantium jump from the ape like man to the human like man and the
jump had a single cause.

It also seemed to imply that up until that jump mankind looked and
acted as apes, after that time mankind behaved as man.

I found the show Intersesting.

Pax Terra
God said BE!
and Symmetry was fractured!

.

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