The Facts of Life: Shattering the Myths of Darwinism. A Review.

Yes, I do see the difference, and, although I have not sent them 'private' replies, they probably do too.

In this walk called Christianity, you'll run acroos people from far differing backgrounds and teachings and experience. Just as some professional sports teams have their 'trash talkers', we got 'em too. They have young, fairly inexperienced players - we do as well. They have guys will bad knees and messed up hands: so do we. And, sometimes, the older players just have to retire - we do as well, with just as much regret and memories as them.

If you can remember the place in the NT where a couple of the disciples wanted to call down 'thunder from Heaven' upon their enemies, Jesus had to rebuke them as well, and THEY had been in His presence for a couple of years.

I used to have the same thought about God as a couple others have shown on this thread. I did NOT want to be SCARED of something to get ME to do anything! It took a few years before I realized that there was a big Love that was being overshadowed something that was NOT created for Man.

NIV Matthew 25:41
41. "Then he will say to those on his left, `Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

He has another place prepared for those who will accept it.

If you had been in California a few years ago, when the earthquake had dropped a bridge support and cars were running off the end of it to crash, I have no doubt that you would have tried to position yourself in the raodway and try to get people to go a different way.

We fall and stumble in many ways, us followers of Christ, but He will always pick us up and let us try again. We, after having learned the lesson, pray and hope with all our heart that we haven't PERMANTLY alienated someone else from saving faith.

I won't ask you to be a bit gentle with the new guys (or old ones either) as there is a saying in our circles: "If you want to know what a Christian should be like, just ask someone who ain't."

The world somehow has an idea of perfection, but most (ha!) haven't attained it yet!

I leave you with this.........

NIV Psalms 102:18-20
18. Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the LORD:
19. "The LORD looked down from his sanctuary on high, from heaven he viewed the earth,
20. to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death."

Human and ape scurvy (and other genetic defects we share) are evidence of so-called macro evolution.

I've mentioned this on several of these threads. There is an identical error in the DNA of people, chimps, gorillas, et al., that prevents the formation of ascorbic acid (vitamin C). This mutation is not found in any other mammal. (the only other vitamin-c-dependent animal is the guinea pig, and it has a different mutation blocking the synthesis of ascorbic acid)

The question arises, why? The obvious answer (to me at least) is that all the species inherited it from a common ancestor. Some anti-Evolutionists have countered that it shows the Designer used the same parts in different designs (ignoring what this says about D's quality control), or that it shows that this particular gene in great apes and people is somehow more vulnerable to mutation (ignoring what this says about the human and ape genes being more alike before the mutation, and also ignoring the odds of the *exact same* mutation occuring six times).

More precisely, people, chimps, and the other great apes have been thought to be related since at least Darwin's time on anatomical grounds. Finding the *exact same* mutation in these species is independent evidence of such a relationship.

Do a web search, this is by no means the only case like this

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