Posted on 03/22/2024 8:32:09 AM PDT by bluescape
Does anyone remember those long threads about evolution a few years ago?
There was one poster that was always jumping on to argue, I think in favor of it. Can't remember their name or I could look some up.
If you could post link to one I'd like to read some.
It was an evolutionary dead end and the thread(s) went extinct. 😁
The poster evolved into a spiked toad.
“Does anyone remember those long threads about evolution a few years ago?”
Other threads that went extinct:
Flat earth
Sun revolves around earth
Cold fusion
Posted on 8/13/2023, 2:40:07 PM by bluescape
Does anyone remember the epic threads a few years ago about evolution? I forget the main poster but the subject would swell to a thousand or two in short order.
In addition to being an interesting subject the science involved was all over the place. What I could follow. Most was over my head, but the passion was something to behold.
I also enjoyed the 'rational' evolution folk countering the 'emotional' Christian side of the subject with a batch of desperate fakery. The Piltdown Man probably the most famous.
Around about 2000 or 2001 I posted 6-part series of long missives here arguing that creation doctrine was the bedrock of any philosophy of conservatism. I doubt that’s what you are looking for, but if there’s a way to look it up it might be of interest to you as it provoked a fair bit of discussion. The screen name was Marathon.
Don’t forget the Terry Schiavo threads Epic.
“You tell me that it’s evolution
Well, yku know
We all want to change the world!”
Yes. There is no theory of evolution, only a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.
Instantly bringing death to life, or multiplying ready to eat food in seconds, or creating the heaven and the earth in a ready for life condition....
Which is more impossible to the unspiritual mind?
If there is a soul in man (and woman), that lives after the body dies, who made that?
Thank God for hope of life after death!
Don’t forget, modern evolutionist believe that life came from dead things also. The theory of abiogenesis is the formal name. They just don’t think that a historical person could do it. Only a historical non-person could.
wasnt his nickname coyote soemthing or other?
LOL- good Norris joke!
[[ichneumon]]
Yep- that was his name- every lution thread had him in it it seemed-
Genesis implies abiogenesis as well. “Let the earth bring forth grass....Let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life....He made man out of the slime of the earth.”
God can make use of secondary causes while still being the Primary cause.
uhh...theistic evolution 🥴
“Here the fulfillment of the divine command is detailed, after being summed up in the words “it was so,” at the close of the previous verse. This seems to arise from the nature of growth, which has a commencement, indeed, but goes on without ceasing in a progressive development. It appears from the text that the full plants, and not the seeds, germs, or roots, were created. The land sent forth grass, herb, tree, each in its fully developed form. This was absolutely necessary, if man and the land animals were to be sustained by grasses, seeds, and fruits.”
Explanation for the “land brought forth”
https://biblehub.com/commentaries/genesis/1-12.htm
“Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- VII. The Fifth Day
20. שׁרץ shārats, “crawl, teem, swarm, abound.” An intransitive verb, admitting, however, an objective noun of its own or a like signification.
נפשׁ nephesh, “breath, soul, self.” This noun is derived from a root signifying to breathe. Its concrete meaning is, therefore, “that which breathes,” and consequently has a body, without which there can be no breathing; hence, “a breathing body,” and even a body that once had breath Numbers 6:6. As breath is the accompaniment and sign of life, it comes to denote “life,” and hence, a living body, “an animal.” And as life properly signifies animal life, and is therefore essentially connected with feeling, appetite, thought, נפשׁ nephesh, denotes also these qualities, and what possesses them. It is obvious that it denotes the vital principle not only in man but in the brute. It is therefore a more comprehensive word than our soul, as commonly understood.”
Concerning the sea ‘bringing forth”
https://biblehub.com/commentaries/genesis/1-20.htm
There was no theistic evolution- creatures and plants were all created immediately, fully formed- in order that life could be sustained by all-
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