Posted on 05/23/2005 3:29:06 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
Actually, it was much earlier in the evolutionary scale..
The convergent evolution occurred with Ham and Eggs..
This was due to the missing links.. of sausage..
Grandpa ate 'em..
I had eleven of those things addressed to me, from about seven different threads (most of which I've never posted to or even looked at). It must be one of the lunatic freaks who got banned from this website back in late 2003 during what is known as the Luddite War.
Indeed they are. Our science programs are going down the drain in this country.
The stakes are the reliability of the scripture. If people doubt the reliability of the scripture, they may reject God's plan of salvation with eternal consequences for them. Therefore it is important to refute erroneous claims and interpretations of data that conflict with scripture.
Just sweeping data under the rug or distorting it so badly does nothing but further undermine Christianity. All this flapdoodle about a 6000 year Earth is just that. This reminds me of the flap caused by the heliocentric ideas back in the 16th century.
People though that it would be the demise of Christianity back then as well. Oops, guess not. Acknowledging a 12 billion year old universe will not either.
Evolutionists probably take it personally, because their decision to reject God and live the way they want to hangs in the balance.
The theory of evolution does not address God one way or the other. Just like the theory of a heliocentric solar system; theory of gravity; atomic theory, etc. does not as well.
Both of us are well aware that the theory of evolution is not a religion. Stating such does not bolster your argument.
That's the Creationists' problem. As you well know, the TOE, like any other scientific theory, is silent on the topic of religion. Sorry to tell you, but not everything is about you and your religion.
Evolutionists probably take it personally, because their decision to reject God and live the way they want to hangs in the balance.
As you well know, people who support the TOE run a wide gamut when it comes to religion, from believing theists to atheists. Your repeated assertions that the TOE exists to refute God are either distortions of reality or outright lies.
I suppose ignorance is bliss and something else to be proud of.
Oh well ... .
Sometimes ... I'd be tempted to swear I'm on a Godless liberal forum. The same tactics such as name calling are used by liberals and YOU. Of course there is NO meat or substance to what they come up with.
Nice links.
I found the fourth one especially interesting with the dishonest tactics being employed by creationists.
Of course that is ALL they teach so I'm not surprised you don't think for yourself! Indoctrination doesn't make it so and I know of folks MORE qualified than YOU who see things VERY differently.
"I guess if creationists actually started turning out real science, they could qualify for public grants, too. Remember, not all research is carried out on the public dime; a lot of it is privately funded. Creationists evidently have a pretty decent well of funds they can go to to fund their research -- if they actually wanted to do any research, which we know they don't."
Actually they do their own research. They don't need to coerce people through taxes to fund it as evolutionists do. If evolutionists didn't have taxpayer dollars few would fund their nonsense. Creationists aren't hurting for money, research or truth as evolutionists are.
They do research? Do you have links to any of their published, peer-reviewed papers?
I haven't done a lot of research on this. But here's a link. The basic argument is that the current model of Egyptian chronology is flawed. And from what I've read there does seem to be much confusion about it.
This link argues that the exodus should be linked with the 12th Dynasty not the 18th dynasty as it has been traditionally. I've seen another site that links 12th Dynasty Egyptian stories and records with Moses.
Keep in mind that the date for the flood is not fixed either. I believe there is a gap in the Biblical geneaologies between Noah and King David. It's been reasoned that gap should only be a maximum of 500 years or so.
I'm also not sure about the Pyramids. The second article claims they were built after the flood. I remember reading, but not sure where, that some of the pyramids show evidence of massive water damage. Not sure which is right.
Agreed He hates sin.
Nobody is going to be able to stand before a perfect Holy God with sin in their lives and survive.
That's why we need Jesus. Without the imputed righteousness of Jesus we are toast. Literally.
Phineas T. Barnum never actually said that.
Let us remember that the rapidly-growing biotech industry, which is profit-oriented and thus non-ideological, employs thousands of scientists, and they don't waste their time or their shareholders' money doing "creation science" (if they did, the creationist websites would surely mention it).
So-called creation science has produced nothing of value in the medical, agricultural, or any other fields. I know, I know ... there have been scientists who were creationists. Before Darwin, just about everyone was a creationist. I'm speaking specifically of "creation science." It's a scientifically barren doctrine.
I don't call names very often. And when I do, it's usually directed at someone who has been extraordinarily abusive in the past.
But since this post was in reply to my post of "The evolutionist case for the evolution of Ham Sandwiches". You should know that this particular tactic was pioneered by Patrick Henry. I'm sure he has a link to his "The Creationist case for meteor crater design" on his list of links that he is so proud of.
Other than studying the Bible, what research have creationists performed?
Creationists aren't hurting for money, research or truth as evolutionists are.
Creationists have access to money because there is a large pool of uneducated, ignorant, gullible people who are associated with talibornagain religious denominations. You can make such buffoons give money to pretty much anything. As for research and truth, as has been shown hundreds of times on these threads, creationists do no research and provide no scientific evidence for their claims.
H.L. Mencken "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste (intelligence) of the American people".
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