Creationist's Problem: Fossil Layers and Humans

First off, I find you charming Ok... Where to start: We have many examples of this on this very forum . You are absolutely right, and I think you will find the EVC to be a place where all are welcome. We have many participants varying from very young... to very... well... Ned A YEC is usually a 'Young Earth Creationist'. These are people who belive the biblical account is literal. That is, the world came to be exactly how the bible stated, in six days, in the given order.They are usually inerrantist as well, believing that EVERYTHING the bible says is true, as written. Well, you will be surprised to learn that scientists don't think so either. However, we do share a common ancestor with them.You see, evolution doesn't propose that one day man was fish and the next day he was man. It doesn't say that one day a monkey gave birth to a human. Evolution simply says that organisms change over time, and that over LONG periods of time those little changes build up into big changes.As crashfrog pointed out above, the same methods used by scientists to determine weather or not you and your parents are related, reveal to us that us and the great apes are related, and fish, and even fungus! Of course, the more different the organism, the less we share in common genetically.It's simply undeniable, our relationship to all living things on this earth is encoded in our DNA. Yes they have, it has affected all living things (well, at least the environment part ). You see, our environment gives us our shape. This is what is called natural selection.Now, natural selection is not saying that suddenly the earth is flooded so I grow gills and fins, in fact, natural selection asserts that changes must be gradual for suitable adaptations to arise.Envision a creature like the bear, it's climate starts getting colder, he starts ranging farther north. Bears who have thicker fur start outliving the bears who have less thick fur because they can withstand the cold longer. So over time, these thick furred bears are more successful at reproducing than the other bears. This means that their cubs will have thicker fur, and so on until all the bears have thicker fur. Expand that process over millions of years, and you will likely see a very different bear at the end of the road Perhaps even a new species.Just look at the variety humans have created in dogs in the last few thousand years. It's hard to belive that a Great Dane and a Chihuahua share the same ancestor.Anyway, evolution is a fascinating subject that would take much more than a web site to explain. I urge you to actually explore and research the subject as I belive you will gain much from it.