Posted on 12/21/2004 8:45:42 AM PST by PatrickHenry
> When your fruit flies won't evolve, just call the one who notices "superstitious"...
Uh-huh. A good example of replacing critical thinking with blind faith. Bravo.
I know that is what my Weim was originally bred to do, but unfortunately she flunked out of obedience school...3 times!
Don't forget the Freemasons...
> How can someone bring down his religion by believing in it?
Because you are focussing on the fairy-tale, allegorical aspects of it and demanding that it be seen as scientific truth. Creatinists are making it *very* easy to dismiss Christians as a whole as a bunch of uneducated superstitious boobs. It is a slow process, but it's certain death for a religion to be laughed at.
> The evidence for evolution is far from conclusive.
No, it's not. It's quite conclusive. The only real debates left are the details.
> it necessarily points to spontaneous generation of life.
Defien your terms. At what point to complex chemicals become "life" in your view? Is a virus "alive" if so, scientists have assembled synthetic virii from much simpler components. The virus was as alive as virii get, and was able to reproduce.
That was in my Philosophy 101 book. :-}
You don't see that this statement argues against your spontaneous generation point?
No, it does not. What scientists do is not magic, not supernatural. They brought chemical componants together in the right environment, and the end result was a living virus.
Hmmm. Wonder why Christianity has done so well throughout history when so many of its adherents faced not only laughter but certain death for their beliefs. If your assessment above is any indication of your ability to assess facts and evidence, well, guess we know who is more likely to subscribe to a fairy tale.
I see no conflict in evolution and Creationism.
I suspect the evolutionists have it a little wrong, and I suspect the creationists are reading the Bible a little wrong.
I bet it will shake out that: God, the law-giver, created laws of nature. These shake out to be evolution in some form or fasion.
The result is consistent with Intelligent Design. Indeed, anyone who bake bread and does it just right creates something out of seeming chaos.
God spinkled in just the right ingredients in the Universe and baked us up just how he wanted. He knew exactly how the bread would rise.
The Bible is the recipe.
Evolution is the science of the rising bread (from the perspective of the yeast, no less).
I recall very asute readers of prophecy being very surprised by Christ coming along. They expected a military hero, I believe.
They read their Bible wrong. In hindsight, their error could not be more obvious.
Same with the Church going after Galileo. They relied on the Bible (and their pre-existing beliefs) to say Galelio was all wet for his Earth-is-Sphere-that-goes-around-the-Sun theory. Got him excommunicated, in fact.
Knowing what I know now, when I read Genesis, it seem perfectly consistent with the Earth going around the Sun, although I see how someone could take it differently.
Once the details are worked out, I bet it will all harmonize, as well.
(Take this all with a grain of salt. The Big Bang theory always sounded like God saying "Let there be light . . ." to me.)
scratching himself like a baseball player
either that or practicing for a superbowl half time show
To bastardize Arthur C. Clarke's saying: To the desperately deliberately ignorant, any technology is seen as magic. Evil, competing magic.
I think that was written on the inside door of a stall outside the Philosophy building, too.
There was even a phone number.
Reminds me of the joke:
God and a scientist arguing about the creation of life.
The scientist says, "I bet I can make a virus out of this dirt."
To which God replies, "I'll take the bet. But you have to use your own dirt."
> Wonder why Christianity has done so well throughout history when so many of its adherents faced not only laughter but certain death for their beliefs.
Because Christinaity had political power. Jsut a few hundred years ago, anyone who would DARE suggest somethign like evolution would be burned at the stake.
But now, Christianity is fading from the western world. It's power in Europe, formerly the central base of Christianity, is quite weak. Christians who bray nonsense about Creationism do NOT help their cause.
If you isolate virii in the marriage suite from other organisms how do they reproduce?
All my dogs are smarter and more likeable than a lot of people I meet......!especially liberals!......
> Maaaan quit yippin'.
Translation: "Please stop telling people the truth."
> Your theory has more holes than swiss cheese.
All theories have holes. However, Creationism is nothign *but* a hole.
The stuff you copied-and-pasted was amusing, but not enlightening except to show what depths of intellectual dishonesty Creationists will go to.
Quite so. What scientist do, ideally, is intelligent manipulation of pre-existing materials.
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