Posted on 08/16/2005 11:23:20 AM PDT by woodb01
Congratulations. You are the first person on you side to protest against the obscenities being posted by someone claiming to be on your side.
I have been wondering if Sir was a DU plant, joined up to make Christians look bad. He certainly has tried.
A very interesting perspective, and one I don't share.
To me faith is important, I don't joke about someone losing theirs. If they think something I did had a negative impact on them I will do the best I can to ameliorate the situation.
At the very least I will express sympathy when it happens "on my watch" so to speak. And anyone who jokes about it will be called out.
An explanation that can "handle" any finding at all is not an explanation. It is not telling you anything about the world. It may appear to have some sort of content. ("The world is a dream being dreamt by a giant turtle!" "The world was made Last Thursday with all of our memories intact!") However, it tells you nothing about what you can expect to see, nothing at all about what you can rule out ever seeing.
When you say "faith". Please define that for me.
I am not going to be an appeaser. I expect people to mature in their faith. I expect Christians to know why they are saved. Knowing why you are saved will stand up against any offense by man. No matter if its as slight as what we are discussing or being asked to die for your faith.
God tells us to mature in our faith. If Christians dont, then they are on the wide path and its no ones fault but their own.
Hbr 5:11 Concerning him [Jesus] we have much to say, and {it is} hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
Hbr 5:12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
Hbr 5:13 For everyone who partakes {only} of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.
Hbr 5:14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
That is correct. It's the kind of "upright" behavior that we've all come to expect from the highbrow evolutionist men of science. Here's the typical pattern: Join the thread and make between zero and two civil posts. Begin with the ad hominem fallacy and continue until thoroughly frustrated. Finish with dismissing any poster that even questions evolution as dishonest, a liar, etc., but never actually tap into that mythical mountain of evidence that proves evolution true.
Not pertainent. Harry Potter may be a myth, but J K Rowling exists. So noöne, (even evolutionists) is denying that the the writer of Eccelesiastes actually existed.
"The Cult of Evolution – the Opiate of the Atheists"
GIVE ME A BREAK!!!
This has been beat to death again and again on this forum.
You don't have to be an atheist to believe or disbelieve in evolution, and the Bible doesn't conflcit with basic evolutionary concepts.
I believe in the Bible and I believe in evolution.
Where I and the millions of other thinking individuals who believe in Evolution and the Bible differ from those few atheist biologists who do so also is that we don't believe that multiple fortuituous "accidents" of species improvement resulted in mankind, but rather that there was some direction from God.
The latter can't be proven scientifically, but then again, nor can it be disproved. Consequently it is not a scientific issue, but a personal theological one.
My thinking is that if "a force that can originate life" acted at more than one point in time, then the time sequence now used is quite suspect of being accurate as a framework in which evolution occurs.
Specific example: If there are other "Burgess shale" deposits yet to be discovered that occurred at later or earlier times than we believe the actual Burgess shale to represent, that would effectively challenge the current timeline of evolution. That seems quite relevant, since time is most assuredly a key component of "change over time".
White Men Can't Jump
and
Elsie can't subtract.
26 hours old then.................
Boo!
And so, your counterexample that would disprove evolution is what?
I can at least prove that intelligent design is a reality in the universe. Can you prove that evolution is a reality in the universe? How?
LOL!
What is that a picture of?
"What a Difference a Day Makes"
You say that, but since a rabbit fossil hasn't been found, you are only guessing what the response would be.
I know what they do with what they HAVE found. . .they make it fit. Example: The so called 'refutations' of Behe's book. It's all embraced by evols whether it makes sense or not.
As ridiculous as some of these are, they would all fit ID. None would fit evolution, no matter how hard anyone tried to make them.
Easy for you to say, but no evidence thus far would support your theory that evolution theory supporters in the scientific community wouldn't make them fit.
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