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I love how religion is involved in everything. Alright,
Sythe first:
Yes, we are losing genes constantly, but that doesn't mean we are going to de-evolve. In fact, we gain more chromosones than we lose!
Think of disease, illness, allergies developing, etc. Even though we don't want them, they are part of our genetic code. So really we do gain quite a bit, and lose a bit. All in all we won't revert to our primordial bacterial state. We will either progress rapidly, or die rapidly. De-evolution won't occur because new genes are always being introduced through exploration, understanding, culture, whatever. Even new foods can change your genetic code by a byte.
Richard, you might like:
http://www.ted.com . It's a very funfilled place full of nice neat ideas! Many on genomics that I just fancy myself in.
Anyways, onwards.
The universe is what we name for everything. There is no such thing as everything, because everything includes nothing. Wrap your mind around that and ask me later.
We do have similarities to apes, yes, and it is very possible to evolve from apes. Our DNA strings are so close, that in stem cell research it would be possible to change about 10,000 lines of code and you would be a monkey again. 10,000 seems like a lot, but think about the fact you're made up of billions. It's really not that much of a difference.
The quraan isn't solid evidence today, it's many years old, and new discoveries can disprove it. Yes, be strong in your belief, but don't try and say that the quraan is solid proof where science isn't.
Believe me, some journals are bigger than the quraan and make a hell of a lot more sense. Not to mention show actual progress.
Study into stem cell research, genomics, and such to learn more about evolution.
As to the big bang, the possibility of multiple universes is very easy to understand, yet the possibility of one infinite universe seems much harder.
If you think about it, there's many layers to everything, in any story, on any page, in any book... there's layers... Don't assume that we're the only universe because infinicy can span forever.
And Gravity can not hold an eternity, multiple gravity points can, but one will not do so.