Posted on 05/11/2012 10:56:54 AM PDT by ReligiousLibertyTV
The public is generally not aware of how thoroughly the theory of evolution has been debunked over the past century. No normal science theory would survive such a history.
How many here think it’s a clear cut sin not to reject the old earth theories outright?
“there is “overwhelming” evidence of “ape-human transitional fossils”
Then why do we still have apes running around?
Shouldn’t they have “transitioned” by now?
Is thinking or analyzing or measuring things a sin?
I believe that the missing link is still missing.
Maybe unicorns ate it.
:)
It’s worse than that. There’s overwhelming reason to doubt that humans could be descended from hominids or apes.
—How many here think it’s a clear cut sin not to reject the old earth theories outright?—
I don’t. I’ve read the Genesis account in Hebrew and there is room to interpret the six days a multitude of ways. That said, I like to ask people, “If you could go back in time and meet Adam one day after he was created, based on his appearance how old would you guess that he is?
Same with the earth and the heavens.
According to a “convincing” show I saw on one of the science channels a couple years back, you’re *all* ultimately descended from salamanders.
[and ~I~ am your overlord....so kneel!]
;D
A day is 24 hours long and six days is 144 hours long.
That fact is true today as it was at the beginning of time around 5,974 years ago.
DNA analysis shows that we share common genes with only 70% of the chimp genome, and we are more like the gorillas (peaceful vegetarians) in 15% of our genome. That gives you another 15% that's not particularly shared with the Great Apes.
Then there are the differences not so apparent where "They" have a gene and "We" don't, or we have a different number of copies, or the copies are stored in different places.
DNA tells us everything we need to know about 'the missing link' ~ and the first thing it says to us is that things are more complex than anyone ever imagined.
Time to read up on epigenetics ~ kind of Lysenko-ish and less Mendelian. Trick is through the magic of methylation you can end up with short circuits in your DNA that give you a beak instead of teeth (if you are a bird ~ for example), or maybe turn you into a gay instead of straight! We've known about mammalian "conditioning" for a very long time ~ but now they are able to put a chemical description to it.
Funniest thing, though I know hundreds of Evangelicals and not a one of them is a young earther. That is mostly a non-issue in their lives.
This is unacceptable.
The renowned brain surgeon will need to go to a re-education facility.
Intolerance will not be tolerated.
My own ancestors were drawing instruction guides and providing storyboards (Of pictures) a good 8,000 years ago ~ you can find their stuff in the Kola Peninsula.
My own ancestors were drawing instruction guides and providing storyboards (Of pictures) a good 8,000 years ago ~ you can find their stuff in the Kola Peninsula.
They were assembled in factories. Out of the same stuff.
You don’t believe in general relativity?
But time is relative depending on other factors. What lasts 24 hours to someone moving the speed of light may last years for someone moving much slower. Thus, what took 7 days at the time could appear to us to have taken millions of years. General relativity changes everything in this regard.
I don’t care one way or the other. As Christians we are required to believe in the Apostles Creed, which does not contain any affirmations about how old the earth is or whether humans were created instantaneously or over millions of years.
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