Posted on 12/02/2009 7:13:55 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
What about them?
Rationalization does not always identify rational thought.
Morals are based on an outside standard of right and wrong.
I wouldn't accept Sharia Law. Would you?
Do you believe in situational ethics or that there’s an objective, outside standard of right and wrong to which one can gauge one’s actions?
Beliefs belong in church ...
When you write: James under the direction of God’s spirit explained why humans engaged in evil, as did many of the other writers you are referencing surrealistic writings.
The "Earth Ages" theology was then as it is now, a fringe element of Christianity. But had Darwin had such a faculty he would never have gotten on the Beagle nor would any scientist ever have gone to a science class or lab because because his "knowledgeable instructors" would have already have deciphered all of the answers to science from Scripture. (Please let me know where in Scripture I can find some answers to semiconductor technology I am working on. I would really appreciate it.)
Biblical Cherry-pickers, quite amusing overall."
As a courtesy perhaps you could post a marked up Old Testament to show which parts are allegorical, which parts are literal, and which parts are no longer applicable. I would hate for our cherry picking to not be synchronized with yours.
Perhaps you could please illustrate where I used the word or idea that the Bible is ‘allegorical’?
If you are hostile to Faith, then so be it. But try to keep it elsewhere (DU Perhaps?)
There is much of the ‘Law’ in the OT that is no longer applicable, due to the sacrifeice of Jesus on the Cross. If you do not understand that, and Truly wish to learn, that would be great. If you only wish to try to mock, then I would sooner you not let the proverbial door hit you on the way out.
Exactly my point. Because Scripture is incomplete God guides us both through Scripture and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit must guide us in our understanding of Scripture. The hand of the Holy Spirit works through the teachings and traditions of the Roman Catholic Church.
However, when anyone suggests that this necessary act of guidance has been exercised by the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church (of course AFTER they finished amalgamating Scripture into the Bible) they are excoriated by the YEC crowd here on FR because the Roman Catholic Church has stated that science and the bible are not incompatible and that Genesis was not intended by God to be a science test book. Perhaps the YEC crowd has determined that the Holy Spirit only works through them when guiding interpretation of Scripture and God's will.
To an evolutionist, EVERYTHING is just a random accident and NOTHING is by design.
I’m an evolutionist and I don’t believe everything is a random accident.
Then you cannot be an evolutionist. Evolution states that living things change slowly over a long period of time because some accidental mutation has made subsequent generations more competitive or more specialized.
Well, then you too are a random accident, because you are a random combination of inherited traits.
Not true. Punctuated Equilibrium is a rapid change within an otherwise slow process.
There is nothing random about God’s plan. He knew that you and I would be born before He even created the earth.
You take one tiny portion and try to make everything I said seem false. The essence of evolution is still random and accidental mutations somehow made living beings better.
So Mendelian genetics isn't part of God's plan?
You make the mistake of limiting God, thinking that His hand is not in everything. God INVENTED the genetics that Mendel discovered.
OK, so Mendelian genetics and its observed randomness is part of God's plan.
” Science Daily leapt from a Stanford study of isotope ratios in rocks said to be 3.4 billion years old that the earth was cooler a billion years earlier than thought, and therefore life must have evolved earlier than thought. “Their findings suggest that the early ocean was much more temperate and that, as a result, life likely diversified and spread across the globe much sooner in Earth’s history than has been generally theorized.”
1) There is no such thing as neo-evolutionism. Theories (pardon the pun) continuously evolve.
2)Science does not have "doctrines".
3P Punctuated equilibrium is not a new concept. It has a long history in the fields of behavioral science and computer modeling in which an iterative orthogonal array process can be greatly accelerated.
4) You obviously don;t know what you are talking about.
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