do animals go to heaven?

[Chill18]

If they do. It'd be filled up with bugs and shit, and that they would be in a separate Heaven.

[Fieren]

No. Not as in they dont deserve heaven. Most humans are the people least deserving of an afterlife. The species that all the others would want extinct would be us. We've done very bad things to this planet. The afterlife doesnt exist to me though.

[Manic]

Ridley, you've got me wondering. How exactly is science not "faulty." You've heard what I have to say about the scientific origin of the universe, but what about evolution?

Darwin's theory was that over long periods of time, small adaptations and mutations, along with natural selection, would result in new species. Darwin also said the following in the Origin of Species.

"If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."

So, explain to me why I have arms and other body parts composed of several interdependent organ systems if my ancient predecessor didn't even have a flagellum. Let's look at adaptations and mutations, too. I'm assuming you've taken biology, and thus know what a Punnett square is. This is a classic example of how a gene can be preserved for generations without making an appearance in it's host. Let's say a black man and a white woman get married, and have a child whose skin tone looks like a mixture. To keep this going, let's also say that child and his extended offspring only marry black people. Somewhere down the line, so long as the gene for light skin still exists, two people who appear to be black could have a completely white child. So, why is it that humans are never born with fully functional tails if we share a common ancestor with chimpanzees? Now, ask yourself, would you have children with someone who had a third arm, or fins instead of hands? What makes you think an animal would, then? Sure, my example is a bit radical, but you get my point.

Time for the fossil record. I've heard people use this bit of information as if it was the one piece of information that would destroy intelligent design. Again, I will quote Darwin.

"The geological record is imperfect and this fact will to a large extent explain why we do not find intermediate varieties, connecting together all the extinct and existing forms of life by the finest graduated steps. He who rejects these views on the nature of the geological record, will rightly reject my whole theory."

Granted, his statement that the fossil record was imperfect was made over 100 years ago, yet we have come no closer to completing it in that time. There is an extreme lack of fossils of the transitional phases between every species there is, and ever was. Furthermore, many complex life forms appear in the fossil record without any evidence of ancestors from which they could have evolved.

Again, it could just be me, but it seems like there needs to be something like God in there at some point.

[Raiyne]

It would've changed the geographical face of earth dramatically, meaning that the original riverbeds could've been destroyed, and that Eden could be anywhere, even South America.

Naw we couldn't have had people from South America as ancestors, people don't change their pigmentation from black to white... except Jackson, yeah he's good...

I can provide several scriptures that make reference to one particularly large dinosaur, the Leviathan.

Oh wow, thats just my dream come true, a dinosaur named after a sea monster.

they said on the history channel that she was in fact a virgin. history channel is a more credible source than some random kid on the internet named "gigabit"

They found the chalice? =O =O =O

Zaku, don't make this into another religion thread please. You can't prove God exists, end of story. Your conclusions don't really mean a thing on this topic cause well, NO ONE CAN PROVE ANYTHING KTHXBYE!