Posted on 10/26/2011 8:44:02 AM PDT by fishtank
*ouch*
“Young earth creationists damage the Christian witness, in my opinion.”
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
It’s clear that there’s a lot of genetic information in all creatures and that their attributes can change based on the environments they find themselves living in. Adaptability by life to live under different conditions is not something anyone rejects.
However just because life adapts and you get more specialized animals that can live in a certain environment better than their predecessors, that doesn’t mean they ever had the genetic information to change from bird to lizard, or from one type of animal to another. Instead we see more specialized animals of the same kind being generated. And we also know from genetics that this specialization actually decreases the amount of genetic diversity in those animals than their former predecessors. So the variation you are celebrating as evolution is giving us less genetically robust, specialized species. They get to a point where a mutt can give you many different types of dogs (but they are all dogs) but if you get to a certain purebred and that’s the only kind of dog you’re going to get.
The evolutionists have yet to show one species (macro-evolution) coming from another. And having a second one that exists at the same time that the new species can mate with. Variation within a species nobody disputes because no matter what attributes vary, you still get a bird, or pig, or cat. If macro-evolution was true, we’d have seen it by now, and we’d also never be able to be sure that our animals would give birth to the same kind of animal they are. We don’t sit around and think the cat may have something other than kittens THIS time. We occasionally get an animal with two heads or an extra leg, but in all those cases the animal is not better off and the extra appendage is useless - a defect rather than a benefit. The mutation never creates a part that wasn’t already in the genetic code of the animal - the cow doesn’t get a wing, or scales, or a thumb. They get another part they already had the information to build. Their code contains information to adapt to be different types of cows, but not different types of animals. They will always be a cow because their genetic information does not and never had the information to become a bird. If you never had that information to begin with, there’s now way you’re going to develop it because life requires stability and our chromosomes and the cellular replication processes are designed to maintain that life form. We know what happens to life forms when that mechanism gets damaged - ever hear of cancer?
No one has ever seen macro-evolution (new species from existing species, ex. no bird from lizard), never recorded, some say some theories say you can’t ever see it because everything is now too specialized, some say it happens too gradual, some say it happens extremely fast when it does but the gaps it occurs at are wide apart, yet we’re told this is evolutionary gospel.
NV, I held the same view as you concerning the age of the earth at one time. (I took a lot of geology) It now seems to me that a young earth is just as probable. There is no way to prove either.
It would take approximately twice the volume of water we see today to cover the highest mountains. Where did it all go?
You’re making an assumption that the mass these equally-massed planets have is composed of the same materials, dispersed around each in the same way.
You’d have to in order to say they should have the same magnetic field. I don’t have evidence to say that assumption is valid.
Well DUH! The Earth was flat during the flood *eye roll*
What a silly question.
Why, we drank it, of course.
Where did you study geology?
Mt St. Helens eruption in 1980 showed us how things that look really old can happen in days. The carved canyons with the super heated ash/snow mud carving through rocks, the hydrological sorting that layers sediments. If we had never seen it happen geologists would have looked at these layers and said “millions of years” to carve these canyons.
So only the Earth started out as pure water globe? Is that what you get from the article?
Why didn't I think of that?
You were drunk?
Nah, still at work. Too early for beer thirty.
You mean the same way they figured out the Scablands were formed in days when Lake Missoula drained?
Univ of South Alabama. I do not have a degree in geology, I took 4 or 5 courses because I liked the subject. My degree is in Electronics.
I thought maybe you were water drunk from consuming your share of The Deluge...
Thanks.
Nah, I peed that out a long time ago. Although, sometimes after a few beers and a ride on the scooter, I feel like I need to release the deluge itself.
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