Why Fundamentalists Cannot Get Their Heads Around Evolution

A difficult area of reconciliation between science and fundamentalism is in the visualization of God. The visualization of God as a man makes it difficult for religious fundamentalists to get their minds around scientific concepts. If you need to believe that God looks exactly like a man, then how do you answer these questions:

- Why does God have lungs?
- Why is God's brain no larger than a human brain?
- Why does God have a penis? (substitute whatever word you think is inoffensive right there)
- Why does God need two hands, can't He pick up stuff by telekinesis?
- Why does God need legs that are sized and shaped for Earth's gravity?
- Why does he need two eyes if He can see everything at once, and why would these eyes be limited to seeing the visible spectrum that humans see on Earth?
- If God is blond and blue eyed, then why? Is Heaven in a northern climate like Sweden?

Religious fundamentalists don't often ask these questions, Most scientists and most main stream religions have accepted the possibility that God does not exist in physical Human form.

I will concede that if God always existed and always looked like a man, there is almost no chance natural selection would end up with a human being in that specific shape and form. At least not without guidance by that image.

More hypothetical outcomes open up once free of this assumption of "Man is in the image of God". Without the human-centric viewpoint, intelligent life could evolve on other planets in other forms, and could even evolve a greater intelligence than our own.

Another possibility is that Humans are not the final life form on the evolutionary scale. If we become extinct, another life form may become dominant after us. Here is a scenario that is not human-centric: Mankind unleashes a holy war with atomic bombs and wipes out all human life as we know it, and most other species as well. But cockroaches survive and become the dominant life form on the planet. Then with hundreds of millions of years more evolution, they develop brains, then religion, then a more powerful atomic bomb, and BAM they are gone too.