Posted on 12/25/2010 4:00:25 AM PST by wendy1946
“And if we choose not to believe that, there is no particular reason to believe anything else in the Bible, including the life and resurrection of Christ.”
Universe in 7 days,, if you don’t believe that, it doesn’t follow logically that you should throw it away. It only means you arent a candidate for an inerrency branch of Christianity. This means you could fit easily into the huge majority of Christians who recognize that the Bible contains a lot of allegory, poetry, and symbolism.
Examples of recent human evolution Link
A simple dichotomy or bifurcation doesn't deal with the more reasonable explanations, Panspermia being one!
That would be a couple of hundred Christians ~ may I recommend to you a larger congregation or two ~ really. Almost NO ONE believes the 6,000 year thing, particularly not Christians.
You could take something like a fruit fly and by turning on some genes, turning off others, bypassing some (for later), and short circuiting others into working with yet a different gene to make a totally new protein or enzyme, and show up with an Elephant or an Eggplant.
All you need is time and patience, as well as a really in-depth understanding of how each gene works, how the DNA sequences within a chromosome can be made to work with each other, and a whole lot of other stuff we can only now begin to imagine.
It was the first inklings of "epigenetics" that led me to the wholly uninformed conclusion that LIFE was so incredibly complex that somewhere in the body of the DNA strands there must be something akin to quantum level super computers and we'd eventually find them ~ and, oh BTW, that'd make LIFE so complex that it must certainly have originated BILLIONS of universes ago ~ a mere 13.0 billion years just isn't enough for that sort of thing.
I'm not sure that's compatible for leading a peaceful life in any human community.
Getting rid of the theory of evolution is not a parlor game. There are upwards of two hundred million dead bodies lying around on account of ideological doctrines for which evolution was the basic philosophical corner stone. It’s past time to get rid of it.
If you’re rejecting Christ because of someone’s opinion, you’re missing Christ entirely. It’s about Him. Learn about Him and reject or accept Him on His attributes...not someone else’s opinion of what you should or shouldn’t believe about Him.
” ... Look at what happened in physics when James Clerk Maxwell’s 200 quaternions (vector equations) were radically deformed and changed into (field equations) by Oliver Heaviside. We got modern electromagnetic theory, but no on has ever gone back to the original 200 quaternions (AFAIK) ... “
Some have argued that much was lost by Oliver Heaviside’s vector field equation treatment. Just saying
Do you know of a accessible source for Maxwell’s original 200 quaternions?
Do you know of a accessible source for Maxwell’s original 200 quaternions?
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No. Probably in some University library.
There are some James Clerk Maxwell books on Amazon; try searching major Univeristy libraries; else trip of England may be in order.
I will point out that to others reading this that these are only theories not the machinery needed to make those things occur.
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On Free Republic at least, I am convinced that those Christians are increasingly zot targets.
Are you pinging me to comment on this nonsense so I can be zotted? I find the science of evolution to be generally convincing so zot away.
Merry Christmas. I feel the same.
And a Merry Christmas to you too Blam!!
Oh, it does too. It has one fixed precept. Philosophical naturalism is assumed 'a priori'. Absolutely every 'scientific' theory that follows is based on that one assumption.
Religion is simply a broad term for the philosophy that assumes that the supernatural is real and includes the natural. Science is simply the broad term for the philosophy that assumes that the natural is all that exists.
"It “evolves” (to use a phrase) based on our knowledge."
Reminds me of good old-fashioned Gnosticism applied to the philosophy of naturalism.
To the greatest extent I’ve ever been able to determine, God works entirely within the laws of physics, assuming that you include plasma physics in the term “physics”. If you want miracles and gross violations of mathematical and probabilistic laws you need to be talking to the evolutionites, they specialize in that sort of thing.
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