It's been awhile since Shermin first invited me to City Harvest Church.
I must say it's been an experience but such a joy as well.
Growing up in a catholic school, I'm used to prayers and hymms and such, but I've never truly immersed myself in beliving in God just based purely on the fact that Mass was boring (imo).

But CHC's different I guess.
It's a christian church and service is totally different from the Masses at school.
I guess I'm kind of devoted now, going to service every Saturday, cell group every Friday and all that such.

So when I went out w Di that day, we 'proached on the topic of creationism and darwinism.

To quote from her blog,

Oh yeah, this reminds me of a conversation I had with Tessajie about creationism and Darwinism.
I told her that I liked the idea of creationism (you know, the whole Adam and Eve deal), but then again, the theory of evolution seems more practical to me.
She told me that she felt the same, but she supported the Adam and Eve deal more since...well, I forgot her reason, but I felt that it was legitimate.
Anyway, so yeah, she asked me why I was so paranoid about creationism.
I didn't want to say it, but from what I know so far about Adam and Eve, they're the first Humans created by God.
Perfect images of him or something like that, right?
...Well, so if I were to believe in creationism, Adam and Eve's kids must have had done each other, and so on and so fourth until they populated the world.
Isn't that incest? (don't tell me the Bible doesn't have anything about that)

Doesn't this mean my dad did his sis, which happens to be my mum, and got my bro, my sis and I?
And that's the same for everyone doing each other right now. They're either doing their brother or sister.
It's just too creepy to imagine.
That's why I don't believe in creationism

Ok before I ramble on, if you don't like a lot of words just don't read this post lol.

My point was, as Di mentioned, was that yes, I do believe in darwinism, because it is logical.
Btw, darwinism is like a term coined for Charles Darwin's "Theory of Evolution", that we originated from other animals that evolutionized over millions of years.
Creationism is the term coined for the Bible story about the creation of us, humans, namely Adam and Eve, by God.

I understand and support darwinism because it has logic to back it up.
Like, the first creatures on Earth were sea animals, and as the Earth grew older, the climates changed, weather changed, the landscape changed, as the Earth stabelized.
So in order to adapt to the changes, the animals must have developed special features/characteristics over the years to survive, no?
And slowly over billions of years, humans finally evolved from that first sea creature.

Thus I believe in darwinism, because it seems logical.

But I also believe in creationism.

In the very first book of the Old Testiment, it cleary states that "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" Genesis 1:1

So if He created the heavens and the earth then he surely would have created beings to inhibit the earth because surely everyone wants their work to bear fruit?
And so He did as stated in Genesis 2:7-14.
And he created man.
"The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed in his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living thing." Genesis 2:7

This is the part I go like "whattt" because I said I believed in darwinism because of the logic, and what the Bible stated doesn't seem logical, no?
But throughout the Old and New Testiment, miracles are seen.
And if God could perform those miracles, why couldn't He create man?

On to the point about Adam and Eve were siblings.
"Then the LORD God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
"Then the man said, 'This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called "woman," for she was taken out of man" Genesis 2:23 and 24

So technically, the woman is the man's flesh and blood.
Because she was made out of a part of him.
So yeah, they're siblings, because family is flesh and blood, right?
I mean if God wanted to make another human, why not just take another lump of soil and breathe life into it?

But on the theory of darwinism, if as they stated that the first creatures were made from particles in the water, then weren't all the creatures made from the SAME particles?

I mean like, human DNA only differs 0.01% from human to human, and it differs 0.5-1% from pigs and rats etc., because we were made from the same particles.

Because we evolutionized from that first sea creature.
And the second sea creature probably was formed by the exact same particles as the first sea creature.
So in a sense, according to the theory of darwinism, aren't we all siblings, too?
Siblings w other animals too, those that were made from those particles that evolutionized into different forms.

There probably weren't many first humans either, so sisters and brothers probably had sex w each other, because they couldn't find anyone else.
I mean like, if the first evolutionized humans were male and female, they'd probably do each other to produce more humans to populate their species because it is instinct to continue our species, right?
They wouldn't just sit around to wait for other humans to be evolved from other creatures, right?

Like how there was that great ice age once, (I forgot which lah) and it wiped out almost ALL of human race.
There were only around 2000 Africans left, because they were not affected much by it.
There probably weren't many different families in there, either.
So siblings probably did each other to ensure continuity of the species, ye?

And we most probably owe those bunch of Africans for our survival now, because if they died, too, in that ice age, we'd probably not be here.

I don't know if it makes sense, but there is a chance we could all be distant relatives according to the theory of darwinism.

Also in the bible, there's prominent display of how we humans and what we humans would do to ensure continuity.

"Come, let's make our father drunk with wine so we can have sexual relations with him and preserve our family line through our father.
"So that night they made their father drunk with wine, and the older daughter came and had sexual relations with her father. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.
"So in the morning the older daughter said to the younger, 'Since I had sexual relations with my father last night, let's make him drunk again tonight. Then you go and have sexual relations with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.'
"So they made their father drunk that night as well, and the younger one came and had sexual relations with him. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and got up." Genesis 19:32-35

So if Lot's daughters would do such a thing (in this case, incest) just to preserve their family line, don't you think that the first humans in the theory of darwinism would do the same to preserve theirs?

So aren't darwinism and creationism the same in terms of how the Earth was populated by us, i.e. siblings doing each other?
They're just different in how they protrayed the first humans to have been made.

Well anyway it's just my point of view about this whole thing.
And you should be bored to death by now (if you made it thus far) so I'm going to end here.
Kthxbai.
xoxo 11:53 PM