A fresh Start

In the beginning God made heaven and earth. The earth was invisible and unfinished; and darkness was over the deep. This was stated in the Orthodox Study Bible, Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. The Bible then states later that man and animals were created by it's kind, because they were created by God's will.

Pages 50-53 in Ismael by Daniel Quinn explains a different view of how man was created. Quinn isn't saying that the Biblical theory that God created man, nor is he stating that man evolved. He is saying that man "appeared". One of the definitions of the word Appear is, begin to exist. Man began to exist, well I can't tell you when man began to exist. It is all based on your beliefs and what you want to believe in. Let's think about this though. What if God's creation is correct. However, the Bible does not say anything about dinosaurs or "predecessors" of human beings if that's what you want to believe in. How did the come into existence? Did the just simply appear? Did they evolve? Did God create them? Fossils don't lie. They're not fake, people did not just create them to diverge away from the Bible.

Let's not drudge on the past though. What is fossilized in the ground is what is fossilized in the ground. What people want to believe is what they think is the truth. I'm not out there to say that this is wrong, and this is right. I respect different peoples beliefs.

"Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world...." I believe that to be true (Page 80, Quinn). If the chimpanzees or the gorillas, hint hint, couldn't conquer their surroundings, manipulate it, and achieve absolute and complete control of the world, then they weren't meant to be rulers of this world. Humans, on the other hand, have a population of 6 billion people. Six billion. The only things that out number us are plankton and possibly mosquitoes (damn flying devils) and a few other living creatures. If humans can pull oil from the depths of the earth, forge steel, and cause an accelerated process of global warming due to the vast amounts of carbon dioxide released into the air, and make species of animals become extinct, then are we as humans not the rulers of earth? Or just possibly the most successful animal?

If we parse "rule" the earth, do we not give a chance for "lesser" species to rule and to conquer their surroundings? Or do we as humans destroy every possible chance of ever happening? If we make species go extinct, are we number one? With gorilla gone, will there be hope for human?