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Creationists don't believe that aging and disease necessarily went hand in hand with creation.

I know you don't like to talk about creationism, but if aging, diseases, etc. was not originally encoded in the DNA, then how did these massive mutations (that kept everything else about humans intact, nonetheless) come about within a single generation ? I think the only answer would be some sort of "recall action" by god. Thus in the end it comes out the same way, whether god created humans faulty or made them faulty later on.

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I have one question that I'd like to know an evolutionist's opinion on. (..)Why do we have a cingular consciousness?

Trust me, you don't want to go there. Whereas evolution is straight-forward and for the most part understood, consciousness is a whole other thing with lots of competing theories none of which satisfying.