Doubting my religion as evolution made more sense

As I mentioned in my previous blog I was raised in an extremely religious family which made sure I was a true believer of God. I did in fact believe in God and never thought there would be a way for me to even doubt what I had learn at home about God and his intellectual creation of earth and mankind. Anthropology was truly a challenging course not because it required some memorization, which I was terrible at, but because it was the only time in my life that I questioned my faith and my beliefs about God.  Although I was a very confused person at that time, the theory of  human evolution forced me to seriously look into sciences that rejected the idea of intelligent creator and find out what they had to offer as evidence to their claim.

What biological anthropology had as evidence was the result of years of research, fossil discoveries and other anthropological work. It was amazing how they explained the evolution of mankind and presented theories that actually made a lot of sense. 

According to the anthropologists who have studied and researched early humans for many years, one and the most important causes of physical changes in early humans was migration and change of habitat. As early humans migrated from Africa, where they were originally located at, exposure to new living conditions resulted in major changes in their bodies. For example when humans moved to forests and hunting became difficult an urge for bipedalism emerged. Bipedalism became increasingly important as it allowed for a greater ability to carry young ones and it provide a better vision for those hunters who had to look out for animals. This of course is a theory which explains how early humans became bipedal as they were not at the beginning.

Early hominids dwelling in forest became bipedal

Also another study of human evolution found that as early humans became more depend on hand-made tools and developed more advanced tools , the shape of their fingers and toes changed. Because they used to climb the trees they needed larger fingers and toes with arc shape to help them with grasping the branches. Also the location of eyes changed and moved closer to each other in front of the face since humans started relying on their vision a lot more than before and the olfactory sense became less and less sensitive because of less reliance on it.

early hunting and gathering tools

A study done by a group of anthropologists on the survival of Neanderthals ( an extinct member of homo genus ) is a great example of evolution and physical changes due to the change of environment. Neanderthals lived in high attitude area where breathing was pretty difficult for species not used to it and as a result of that Neanderthal developed larger and wider chests as it would make it easier for them to get oxygen in their longs and also their noses got bigger. the pictures below are reconstructed images of Neanderthals. 

reconstructed image of a young Neanderthal

Neanderthals hunting

 After learning all about these theories and studies, the idea of God and his intelligent design became more and more complicated for me but at the same time it motivated me to discover and search more. I think that many nonbelievers would look at evolution as a theory that religious-less people developed in order to make their disbelief in God more accountable and to have a reason to question different religions. Although it is true that many evolution believers do not believe in existence of superpower or God, evolution is certainly a strong theory which has based its ideas and claims on solid evidence left from early humans such as their skeletons found in different locations.