blueyedpoet said:
How does evolution mean you have the morals of a monkey?
Interesting question, and I will try to answer it accordingly.
I believe there are certain things about Darwin's theory that are in fact true, such as things might change according to their environment. Obviously though, when you sit right by an active volcano for 20 years, you're going to get hot. But that's not science, that's common sense.
But to say we came from apes is not only unbiblical, it's also unproven. Darwin is hailed as a god in our society for whatever reason. He sure wasn't right about everything. He said that smaller plants were simple celled. Now that we have righteous science, we discovered these small plants were complicated, with many cells. When mad science tells me that my ancestors were apes, that is bogus! This scientific "theory" is no greater than a philosophy that's worldly and most importantly, false.
I find evolution degrading to morality because humans are superior to the rest of the animals, and God gave us that privilage. Look at your family for a second. Do your older ancestors look any more like monkeys than you do? Humans were created in the image of God, and we have a few of his qualities, too. We are creative, artistic, and have a sense of purpose.
To defend my claim, if we were somehow almost impossibly created by some big bang baloney, arriving on planet earth, the only living, breathing planet that I know of so far, and... we were apes. How does this make us - the "intellectuals" smarter than what we were? What does Darwin say about our morality if he claimed we were apes? He is basically saying our lives are meaningless, that we should go ahead and get every STD out there, because we have no morals, and we should live by the moral standards of an ape! Hey everybody, let's act like apes, since according to Darwin, all our ancestors did was EAT BANANAS!
I for one believe we were created, not "big-banged" onto this planet that has the right temperature for us to survive for a lifetime. How can this be out of chance? The "chance" of this actually happening is less than one percent!