Imagine that we humans had created robots that eventually were able to reproduce and improve themselves according to their environment, humans died out and after millions of years the robots came up with a theory of their evolution based on bits of old machines they dug up. Their theory would not in any way disprove the existence of humans. Instead it would be a sign of a higher intelligence that bought them about. Dr Francis Collins who is one of the worlds leading experts on evolution believes that God bought about the human being via the process of evolution.

Whether someone believes in or rejects the theory of evolution as a means to how human beings came in to existence, it does not in any way conflict with belief in God.

what if god is an alien?

all the great civilisations from around the world point to the sky, be it in pictures,carvings, stories or monuments, coincidence??

Unfortunately, as yet, there is no evidence of any of these great civilizations being based in Cardiff.

Unfortunately, as yet, there is no evidence of any of these great civilizations being based in Cardiff.

clouseau.....what about kent..where I live??

As a 13 year old Catholic Alter Boy who attended a non Catholic School and had just started studying evolution, I asked my Priest this very question. This was over 30 years ago, " I asked as God created Man in his own image, does that mean God was an Ape as evolution now proves". His reply was " as man evolved so did God, and God is what man believes him to look like". I thought clever answer, but a Cop out.

Paddy Hair - God created man in his own image.
Jesus said God is Spirit. So God created man in Spirit.
When he ate of the fruit he died. His spirit died.
He realized at this point he was naked. Not before?
Shame set in because of sin.
the first sin was pride - To be like God, to know all things.
Today most people do not find God because their pride birthed
from knowledge stops them investing time to know God.

You can believe in evolution as a code written by a creator, but 'God' comes from religion which is early man's interpretation of events based on little available evidence.

So people assume they are here so therefore some(thing) created the experience, this may or may not be true, reality could be as ethereal as the ambiguous fabrication that religion refers to as 'free will'.

Free will is just cause and effect, the more data collected the more accurate the prediction of future outcomes.
What people do or don't do is directly relevant to the chemical structures present in their brains and the rewards that are experienced by certain outcomes (and the relevance of those rewards).

People like to think they are individual but there won't be long before everything about a person can be logged down in something akin to binary and 'personality' predicted.

We are all trying to assess this with slightly advanced primate brains.

hth

Early man could be reference to the time pre renaissance, where science had practical discoveries based on the universe that we exist within.
People two thousand years ago didn't know about molecular physics for eg, even 200 years ago they didn't.
Now we know that endorphins shape the personality from a pleasure reward perspective.
People do what they do as a result of the chemicals released in their brains.

If a person believes religion to be true for eg then living a righteous existence is meaningful and virtuous, the feel good factor is created within themselves. Something that appears greater than the sum of its parts.

As for Jesus, he was a cynic philosopher mistaken for something people wanted him to be IMO.
Whether it was Socrates plea to not avenge injustice or Diogenes request to discard money most of jesus's work can be traced to 500 years before his birth.

dustybin -

a corporation, Komar & Melamid, Inc., that had as its purpose “the buying and selling of human souls.” They bought several hundred souls, including Andy Warhol’s (who sold it to them for free), which was smuggled into Russia and then sold for 30 rubles. - wiki -

I'm pretty sure you could sell your fictitious soul to someone? pure profit.

Zorro
Reality that you and I experience is a simplification of millions of calculations that are subconsciously constantly occurring.
You may romanticise events like love or hate but they are ethereal 'end games', things that have causes and effects that culminate in the experience that is given a name by humans to attempt to reference.

When you love for eg it's a long developed feeling, a reaction to stimulus that has grown around reward of something which you now arbitrarily call 'love'.
The experience you refer to regarding parents is the culmination of dopamine release in the brain that occurs whenever your eyes, ears or smell senses a member of family you have grown familiar with and who is associated with safety etc.

Jesus was born within four miles of a known cynic collective, the Christians attempt to argue that there is no evidence of influence because nothing is documented about a meeting.
It didn't have to be.
Diogenes never for eg wrote anything down, it was all verbal in the form of spear he's to the community. Do people honestly think that the message never got to Jesus?
Get real.