Faith and Human Evolution: Mental Gymnastics

I feel like God definitely could have been working on prehistoric humans and then was like, okay, we got our latest model, let's, Adam and Eve let's go.

What if God was just like having some fun and creating like a prototype, you know, just practicing or something, I don't know.

I guess that's true. That is contradictory, which shows that I don't have any study to put a ton of thought.

God said them there with his hands or they came from evolution or whatever from apes, whatever, it doesn't change my life.

It just doesn't bother me. Lack of caring, maybe? I'm not a biology major. I think about it every once in a while, and then I just move on.

We will be able to know everything in the next life. So I don't wrestle with it too much. It'll work itself out.

I've since decided if God wanted to use evolution to make man, who are we to tell Him that we can't?

The strongest thing to change my views on evolution would be a church leader coming out and saying, this is exactly how it happened.

For some reason, it doesn't concern me. I feel like it should bug me, but it doesn't.

I really feel like everything has its own little desires and tendency to want to do good and want to worship God.

If that means it only flooded like part of New Mexico, or wherever he was, I'm totally okay with that.

Dr. Jensen's book, yeah we did evolve from fish, and Heavenly Father could have probably just snapped His fingers and they would have appeared.

So our bodies evolved and then God put our spirits in those bodies. And that's how we got here today.

This is definitely not a developed view. Yeah. We'll die on this hill.

I view Adam and Eve as more of our spiritual parents; maybe their bodies and our species came to be through more natural processes.

I find those to be both like basically coin flips. We don't know because we don't have a time machine.

It helps me to be viewed as intelligent, so people can take me seriously and not view me as a religious nut.

You can't really believe in science. It just exists. Or not, I guess.

We never seen photos of what Adam and Eve looked like. They could have been more apelike, walking on all four, and then they just evolved.

To say Adam and Eve are the ancestors of all human race and then also say we have primate ancestors, I keep them separated.

I played the Legend of Zelda, the Wind Waker, and when the earth gets flooded those mountains are like the new islands.

The unicorns to make it on, the dragons to make it on. But unfortunately, I guess not.

My brain kind of goes into science mode and religious mode, which is funny because my views are very combined.

There's this term I learned in English, it's called Double Think. Both of these things are true. It's just that they're a different type of true.

I believe that God gave us dominion over all other living things, and so that gives the idea that we don't need to evolve.

don't know how

When I originally think of evolution, my mind just goes to Age of Ultron from Avengers. Ultron says I need to evolve, and it's like, how does a robot evolve?

He didn't make us in the image of monkeys. He didn't make us in the image of a fish. He made us in his image.

That was like God telling Noah, don't forget my unicorns, and the unicorns wouldn't come. So they aren't here because they were sucked up by the flood.

It's that kind of cognitive dissonance, comfortable to believe two things that are fundamentally different, and trying to remove that thought in the back of my mind.

The best way I deal with that is just by accepting that God's plan is always going to be bigger than what I think and I believe.

Eventually when the body is ready He can put Adam and Eve's spirit into that body and then we have the first human.

The first fish that went out of water tried because it believed even though it'd never seen anything do it. That's why we come from that fish.

Everything else was just, as Bob Ross would say, a happy accident.

We talk about mutations being random. What if they're not? What if that's what God's doing in order to create it?

I think they might've been the first perfect product of evolution. Like natural selection didn't kill them off kind of deal.

I always thought of the rib as the DNA update. The blueprint from the rib is what created them.

I'm very much looking forward to 'Creation 101' in heaven. I'm okay with saying, I don't know how it worked, but it worked somehow.