Posted on 06/17/2007 6:54:37 PM PDT by Rodney King
“The evolutionists insist the dinosaurs lived millions and millions of years ago and became extinct long before man walked the planet.”
Most likely is that there were a few large (by human standards) lizards roaming about when human kind was becoming a powerful force. This could be where the legends of dragons come from. I’m not saying this is what I believe happened, only that it may have.
“In fact, I’m not at all sure dinosaurs are even extinct!”
They’re not. Crocodiles. Alligators...some of the larger snakes possibly. T-REX? Not likely.
If you don’t take all things in the Bible as literal why would you possibly take the Genesis account of creation as anything but an allegory. It has all the earmarks of one. All evidence shows the earth is much much older than 6,000 years and there is no reason you can’t believe in Christ and scientific reality at the same time. I would dare say God wants man to be rational not a superstitious savage.
“There are also countless contemporary sightings of what appear to be pterodactyls in Asia and Africa.”
Ok then. The author is a fruitbat.
Joseph Farah, nobody cares what you believe. If your beliefs were a little less preposterous, maybe they might.
“prove their bogus theory’
Did you know there is a theory of gravity? Like all theories, it has not been proven, yet gravity exists. As a matter of fact, Einstein’s theories of relativity required a change in the theory of gravity because they accurately predicted things gravity was later discovered to actually do.
The theory of evolution is the best explanation so far of the fact of evolution. If you believe nothing evolves, that’s one thing. To challenge a theory of something you think isn’t even real seems like a waste of your time.
To think the scientific method, so successful in practice, is incompetent at dealing with biology because it infringes on the beliefs of ancient desert dwellers surely strains the brain.
Ask Joe Farah. It’s his article and his acknowledgement of mountains of evidence.
Not really worried about your ilk destroying Christianity.
I believe it. And I am a conservative and a Catholic. I teach all of my five children the truth, "Evolution Happens." Your story wastes our time. Can't you discuss this in your bible study class?? We're busy here with more important matters.
Obviously not to be taken literally. Intended meaning- to shrug off the contents as unquestionally binding, absolute truth- bearing on all men universally- then it is no longer the Bible.
If my belief is -one word in the Scriptures is not God breathed, then I become God-I have written my own Bible.
I thought it was the Law Of Gravity.
I can't speak for Christians, but Jewish scholars of all demonations have tended to view Genesis as allegory for at least a thousand years. This is why even the most Orthodox have tended not to see a conflict with evolution. A minority of the Orthodox (and a miniscule minority of the overall Jewish population) do cling to creationism, but even they don't take Genesis as a strictly literal accounting. I would be shocked if there were a dozen Jews on the planet who believed the earth was 6000 years old.
Now maybe the Jews are crazy... after all, what could Jews possibly know about the Torah?
But I am worried about your ilk helping to damn people to Hell
Don’t worry. Be happy.
The law of gravity is simply the observation that if you drop something, it will hit the ground. It doesn't explain why that happens, nor does it explain how that happens, nor does it predict the gravitational pull two objects will exert upon each other. That things tend to fall is the Law -- everything else is gravitational Theory. And say what you want about gravitational Theory, it sure ain't bunk.
Cut the Gordian knot. Google law of gravity and theory of gravity as phrases. See which gets the most hits...
Evolution is the process by which God made man.
I firmly believe in both creationism and evolution.
Are you telling me that natural selection isn’t observable in nature and cannot produce different species?
Sorry but you and your flawed beliefs turn people from Christ and cause many people to rightly see christianity as a whole as little better than a bunch of superstitious primitives. Evolve a little bit and come into the 21st century leave the superstitions in the dark ages where they belong.
My take on legends of dragons is that when primitive people found fossils of big strange-looking animals, they made up stories to explain them.
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