Re: 'Abdu'l-Bahá and evolution

Tom,

"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."

Do you want to bet?

"I expect that would be pretty hard to determine anyway without a time
machine. We are talking about scattered and fragmentary fossilized
remains from several million years back."

Do you really think our means are so limited? By its nature, no
scientific proof can be conclusive, but we have some pretty strong
suggestions this way.
DNA analysis offers as convincing an evidence of the shared ancestry of
humans and apes as it does of the common origin of the different human
races.

But what most interests me is what it all means. The *fact* that man
is an animal and is descended from lower animals -- and it rests on
better ground than many other propositions we take for granted -- this
fact has a number of consequences. At the very least, it means we
ought not be so arrogant about our superiority to the rest of creation.
We have rational powers that our kin in the rest of the animal kingdom
don't, but we are not seperate from them. They are flesh of our flesh
and spirit of our spirit, and we must cherish and respect them not only
as the work of God, but as branches of the same tree of which we
ourselves are part.

regards,
Brendan

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