Posted on 05/06/2005 7:36:09 PM PDT by DouglasKC
Obviously, there is no contradiction between "evolution" and the idea that the "universe and everything in it" was "designed and formed" by God.
He seems to have created a Unniverse where life is possilble; perhaps inevitable, would you not agree? He has obviously created a universe where change is an everyday occurrence; we watch the sun rise and set, we grow old and die, we see the changes in the weather and the seasons, we see the landslides that over aeons, level mountains. Change is never ending and it is all around us every single day.
Why is it so hard for some people to accept the very well documented fact that living species adapt and change genetically over time? It beats me, I have to tell you, but I think I have to chalk it up to ignorance.
A final comment. There is no need to label me as a "Darwinian". That would be essentially dishonest, as I have never read a single work of his. There is also no need to drag out a term like "spontaneous generation", whcich you do merely to denigrate, not to explain.
My thoughts on this subject are anything but silly; they only may seem so to someone with very little capacitty for imagination and critical thought.
Some people think God isn't powerful enough to create through evolution. Why? Because they say so.
This should not be a revelation to anyone. It's also not the language.
I suppose there has been some amount of evolution in the span of time since God initiated creation. Perhaps God does use evolution in his plan. I'm not one that holds to the 6000 year idea that has come out of a misunderstanding of the time line hinted at in the OT. But the theory of accidental spontaneous generation of life from out of a primordial soup that science postulates today as the beginning of life on earth is just simply laughable.
I think one could read a lot from the Genisis account of how God formed man out of the dust of the earth.
That's really the crux of the matter. Godless evolution means that you have to belief in spontaneous generation of life...life from non-life...a totally unscientific and arcane view.
"DNA: The Tiny Code That's Toppling Evolution"
Yeah and an zygote is a human being, a bouncing baby blah blah blah.....
Religious scientific spin rears it's ugly head, yet again.
What is uglier? Religion or science? The atheistic scientists who have formed nations ie. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot probably killed more people in service to their ideas than all the religious wars in history. This IS feasible as it is reasonably estimated that half the people who have ever lived are alive today.
If religionists insistance that there is a creator God bothers you so much why are you a conservative? What are you conserving?
or maybe, as Darwin's theory would suggest, it simply outlasted less efficient methods?
if you're an illogical religious wacko, don't bother flaming me. (belief in god is OK) thanks in advance.
Not a problem at all. Just take an infinite number of possible combinations of matter and turn it loose over an indefinite period of time. Voila! Not only do we have a scientific explanation, but we can comfortably reject intelligent design as an unscientific notion that only serves insidously to insert religion into the educational process.
Two problems:
1.The earth is not infinitely old.
2. Life only comes from life. Life can't spring from non-life.
Well, given an infinite number of possible combinations of matter over an indefinite period of time, the earth and life as we know it could have appeared 600 years ago. Voila! I tell you, it's all in the science.
Yup, it's like magic. Maggots spontaneously spring forth from rotten meat! Frogs springing forth spontaneously from mud! Mice springing forth from moldy grain!
The modern equivelent of these examples of Aristotelian abiogenesis will soon be revealed to be wrong-headed science. Spontaneous generation of life can't and doesn't happen minus God.
How dare you use the word "magic" in connection with purely scientific knowledge! You are heretofore, hereby, and by all the powers vested in me, BANNED from any place near a public classroom.
About the same as claiming that the Encyclopedia Britanica came into being because of an explosion in a print shop.
Someone challenge raygun so he'll post some more. I'm really enjoying his rebuttals :-)
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Wow, too much for me. I'll go with Apollo. Much simpler. Explains everything. No need to look any farther. Plus, Bullfinch's Mythology tells me so - therefore, it MUST be true.
Glad I sorted that one out.
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