Posted on 01/17/2017 11:06:44 AM PST by fishtank
Fast Evolution Confirms Creationist Theory
by Randy J. Guliuzza, P.E., M.D. *
A tenet of creationist theory maintains that creatures are designed for robust speciation. Although they cannot change into fundamentally different kinds, creatures can rapidly express a wide diversity of traits to fit changing environments. "Fast evolution affects everyone, everywhere" is one headline1 from the theme of the Royal Society's life science journal in January, 2017.2 But its content further bolsters creationist theory.
The pace of change within organisms is a keen topic of interest. One reason many people doubt evolution is that no one has ever seen one kind of creature change into another. Plant and animal breeders have never done it in thousands of years of concerted effort. Even experiments intended to force evolution along by inducing radical genetic mutations in breeding pairs result in crippled, but not basically transformed, prodigy. Remarkably, both creationists and evolutionists are content with this fact.
(Excerpt) Read more at icr.org ...
Fast evolution proves evolution theory. There is no scientific proof for creation theory.
another good point is that God allows suffering because suffering has a way of taking a hard heart, and softening it to the point where a person turns to God because there is no other course of action to take- Bitterness doesn’t help, anger doesn’t- resentment doesn’t- there is no other way to turn but to Him - Not everyone will CHOOSE to turn to Him of course- but God gives them enough time to make up their mind
Glen Miller says it well:
“God has made the human personality resilient, adaptive, and in most cases, able to transform situations of personal suffering into experiences of growth. “
“7. If a loving and powerful God really exists, why doesn’t He do something about all of the evil in the world?
“Actually, He IS doing something about evil—not the least of which is being patient with you and I about OUR evil! Even though He gets a lot of slander for not judging evil quickly, nevertheless many of us appreciate the fact that He didn’t judge us too early, and that He gave us time to ‘get right with Him’! “
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Glen talks about our lives having a ‘group effect’ (IE: Our actions affect the ‘whole group’ (those around us that we are connected to) in ways we will never know- A simple smile or compliment from a suffering person for instance can so affect a young person that years later, faced with their own problems, remembers the kindness of the suffering person, and so decides to help humanity in ways that this person never would have even begun to conciser had that sick person not been kind to them earlier in life-)
“Group Effect” Is a powerful concept- our actions have ramifications far out into the future- and affect more people than we will ever realize-
Of course that brigns us to the person who is sick but bitter and rejects God- what good can possibly coem from this? There are many- and the site goes through those in several articles-Basically the bitter person was never going to accept Christ no matter what- but God will use it just as He used Pharaoh’s hardened heart to bring about good ultimately-
the problem of pain and suffering is a common issue that has been pondered all down through the ages- and there are a great many examinations of it by many prominent philosophers and theologians etc- There are answers- if we are objective enough to get beyond any preconceived personal finite, incomplete moral regulations we impose on God-
The ‘Group Effect’ is an important concept to study and learn- when trying to understand the presence and effects of evil, and the concept of hell and eternal suffering (Some people argue that the punishment outweighs the crime of rejecting Christ and living a life of sin- however, this ‘Group Effect” comes into play even here because crimes committed have far reaching affects that aren’t readily seen or known- for instance a murderer may murder a person and think they just affected the immediate family, but not so- the affects will carry on down through the ages, affecting distance relatives, affecting people who knew them- affecting national laws- affecting society as a whole- etc etc- so that ‘single act of murder’ wasn’t as limited in scope as first thought- and the seriousness of the crime is multiplied many times- this is just a quick eample0 there ism ore of course- but got to run-)
Still hasn’t gotten over Hillary’s loss. Sad. Probably needs a safe space.
Aristotle introduced the first hierarchical classification system, not Darwin and his progeny. He divided the life forms he saw into eidos and genos, establishing the basis for taxonomy. And I'm not even sure if Ari was aware of evolution. He thought spiders had six legs because he didn't care enough about them to observe them closely.
Maybe to keep wicked creatures like humans from living forever.
Why does God allow animals to get cancer and suffer?
The excerpt looks like the establishment of a strawman to me.
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Interesting article.
I think every thinking person realizes that there’s really zero evidence of goo to you through the zoo. Even the most “simple” single-celled organism is ridiculously complex, so complex that the very idea that it could’ve formed spontaneously is laughable. In fact, the formation of a single usable protein by natural processes has been likened to a solar system full of blind men all simultaneously solving the Rubik’s Cube. That “simple” cell requires dozens of them. Such faith! And there’s also the issue of all the billions of missing transitional forms. Even more faith!
And taking it back even further, matter/energy can neither be created nor destroyed according to the First Law of Thermodynamics. Yet the universe is full of matter/energy. It can’t be there, but there it is.
Anything that happened only once, and supernaturally at that, has to by definition be faith-based. It’s not repeatable. Belief in creation falls in the supernatural category. But so does belief in evolution, with its belief that cytoplasm, a selectively permeable cell membrane, organelles, a nucleus and the most complex code in the universe (DNA), all formed spontaneously in a puddle. Laughable.
When people thought cells were just blobs of cytoplasm, it’s sort of understandable that they could believe those blobs could’ve formed via natural processes. We know better now.
Changes within species? Sure. They’ve irradiated thousands of generations of fruit flies. They’ve seen some freakish looking critters, but they were all still fruit flies. Just like an ambitious Chihuahua can breed with a Great Dane. But they’ll still be dogs.
No it doesn’t. That’s the strawman creationist like to put up, but out here in reality evolution does NOT involve smooth transition.
I agree completely with everything you said.
So they have this strange looking baby. Then what?
Then they have a strange looking baby. We already know Homo Sapien is the result of LOTS of breeding between Erectus, Neanderthal, and antecessor. Plus of course there’s the fact that Erectus wasn’t terribly homogeneous and included georgicus, heidelbergensis, and pekinsensis. There were many types of humans running around at the same time, and they were doing the nasty with each other. The simple fact of the matter is “strange looking babies” were just how things went, because transitions aren’t smooth.
Strange looking baby = thrown on the fire and a slap on mommy’s face.
Maybe in your strawman world. But once again we’re dealing with reality. And out here in reality brood parisitism shows strange looking babies just aren’t something that gets worried about by most of nature.
Brood Patriotism, is that another religious term the Church of Evolution came up with?
I am not visable in the gif but I can assure you that Viagra Works... she is nice young gal went right back to bar tending after this was recorded ... still haven’t received my check from Pfizer for proof of concept and validity of performance so she has since cut me off and will not answer my calls... (we were going to split the Research Payment 50/50).
I feel so used.
Brood Parasitism, suckering other species to raise your young. Cuckoos are a popular example but by no means alone. And your need to go to insults shows you know you’re wrong.
Early man, Erectus and Neanderthals were lucky to make it past 30. There was no time to raise a deformed or crippled baby. Those babies were probably cooked and eaten. These were barbaric, primitive humans, barley able to communicate most likely.
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