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To: Reuben Hick

"evolution claims that death reigned before Adam sin."
Forgive my ignorance but I havn't the foggiest notion what
that purports to mean. Ive read the Gospel in Greek and studied it for years by higher critical methods and others.
The creation myths are attempts to explain theologically
that God is the force behind creation. Evolution is NOT
a theory but a fact. What best explains the fact is Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection. To claim that the
Gospel in any way rejects this reality does a disservice
to religion. Besides, you'd be wasting your time fighting
yesterday's battles. The vast majority of scientists and
informed Christians accept evolution.


35 posted on 01/06/2005 5:37:21 PM PST by T.L.Sink (stopew)
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To: T.L.Sink
Forgive my ignorance but I havn't the foggiest notion what that purports to mean. Ive read the Gospel in Greek and studied it for years by higher critical methods and others.

Come on, you don't have to lie. You sound like someone who is throwing around words and have no idea what they mean. For instance, you don't have to be a Koine Greek scholar to be able to read and comprehend Romans 5. Second, "higher criticism" has nothing to do with doctrine, it deals with the sources of documents and attempting to determine authorship, date and place of composition. So it is difficult to "forgive your ignorance" when you are out to deliberately deceive and don't even know what you are talking about. sigh

The creation myths are attempts to explain theologically that God is the force behind creation.

By what standards of evidence and science are you qualified to call the Creation narrative "myth"? The material evidence that has been collected is consistent with Creationist explanations. For instance, the fossil record, magentic decay, stratification of sediment layers according to what is known about liquefaction are consistent with Creationist theories.

Evolution is NOT a theory but a fact.

Again, you show your ignorance and illiteracy since Evolution doesn't even qualify for Theory, but according to scientific terminology should correctly be called "hypothesis." It shows your prejudice and hate to call Creationism "myth" and toi foolishly call Evolution "fact". Because of your obvious allegiances to atheistic philosophy and a pattern of continual lying, it would seem that an honest person would recuse themselves from comment, but alas, according to the rules of procedure of the Athiestsic Evolutionists, you must always slander Christians, then gratuitously assert the unprovable as fact.

To claim that the Gospel in any way rejects this reality does a disservice to religion.

So far, you are batting a .000 in the truth department. I fail to see how a person who admittedly can't find the topic of "sin" and "death" in the gospel message can somehow feel confidence in saying that the great theological minds of the last two thousand years are all wrong and your biased words are right. But unwarranted pride and arrogance are also hallmarks of the evolutionist zealot, so this too is understandable.

The vast majority of scientists and informed Christians accept evolution.

Again, this is a outright lie. In the general population alone, the most recent surveys show that fewer than one third of the population accept evolution as an explanation of origins. Over half of the general population, Christian, agnostic and of other religions included in the survey accept intelligent design. So you seem to only know nothing but lies and have successfully convinced yourself of it.

Perhaps in your "reading the Gospel in Greek" you may have stumbled across Romand 1 and 2 Peter 3:5 which you embody quite well.

Stick that in your "higher criticism" crack pipe and smoke it.

38 posted on 01/06/2005 7:14:48 PM PST by Reuben Hick (So why do you prefer the word of God Haters rather than the word of God?)
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To: T.L.Sink
Evolution is NOT a theory but a fact

Evolution, Gravity, Acidity... they are all theories, not "facts." Facts are things like: "when we measure weights on a balance, we find they are asserting approximately a force equal to their mass x what we think to be Earth's gravitational acceleration" or "when we put metal strips into hydrochloric acid, they dissolve at a rate consistent with what we believe HCl's pH to be"

Evolution is a theory, not a fact. It is a true theory.

47 posted on 01/06/2005 11:23:27 PM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: T.L.Sink
T.L. Sink, clergyman, wrote:

"evolution claims that death reigned before Adam sin." Forgive my ignorance but I havn't the foggiest notion what that purports to mean. Ive read the Gospel in Greek and studied it for years by higher critical methods and others. The creation myths are attempts to explain theologically that God is the force behind creation. Evolution is NOT a theory but a fact. What best explains the fact is Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection. To claim that the Gospel in any way rejects this reality does a disservice to religion. Besides, you'd be wasting your time fighting yesterday's battles. The vast majority of scientists and informed Christians accept evolution.

Being almost speechless at this one, I'll let you elaborate for us

85 posted on 01/08/2005 6:33:03 PM PST by D Edmund Joaquin
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