Posted on 08/13/2009 11:52:08 AM PDT by KungFuBrad
I am not saying that Christianity and Evolution can not coexist. All I am saying is if someone believes in a christian god then god created it all. Doesnt tell us how but just that he did. Perhaps god just started the evolutionary process. That elusive “what was the spark that started it all”
I think we are both actuly agreeing. :)
God DID create it all. And we are witnesses to some degree of evolution, but not necessarily that which "Evolutionists" want us to embrace. Read the Bible if you want to see the evolution of the human species.
That elusive “what was the spark that started it all”
Nothing "elusive" about it. That's God.
See, Like I said. we are agreeing
Perhaps. My point, though, is that there's nothing "elusive" about God. At least to me, the term "elusive" implies something potentially attainable that remains out of reach. Man is not able to see, or understand God, though we try to rationalize Him to our detriment. We can, will, never attain a true understanding of God. That's beyond our comprehension. Faith. Faith is what God counts in our favor.
See “Evolutionary creationism” (Google has various good resources for the top hits). The belief is basically that evolution, much like every other physical process, was indirectly designed by God as an intended consequence of one single initial act of creation. In this view, all action, including evolution, unfolds strictly according to God’s will (with the spectrum of all possible combinations of all incarnations of human free will (and other non-deterministic processes) resulting in outcomes also all compatible with His desires) - as a consequence of a total, perfect systems design.
So, in this view, God need not invoke any “supernatural” force to impose His will at any point in time - all of creation, including man, was instead formed as an unfolding of a perfect plan, using as tools those natural forces and processes like gravity, natural selection, genetic mutation, etc. (each part of this symphony arising according to one perfect design for the spark of creation, and not a multitude of individual designs requiring each an interjection of “supernatural” will)
Yes it would, however, I guess he fails to see that little fact.
my point was to quote them. Not me. Thus the quotation marks. I have no doubts about where creation started or who started it. I guess I should have used one of the </sarcasm> things.
They’re “howling mobs?” Are they also “Nazi’s?” How about “Evil-Mongers?” Maybe “Un-American?” How about “Thugs?”
The owner turned far lefty and purged all the normal people from teh site. Smart to not give the monster hits.
A thought on that...
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!
Samuel Adams
Wonder how that is working out for him? He is counting on his orginal base of normal people to keep visiting his site and adding to it, the socialists?
Actually, from what I gather, he has a marketing plan to hate and insult everyone.
It was never very libertarian...it was, as someone above said, more of a neoconservative site. I mean that in the traditional, accurate, sense of the term (and not as it is used by leftists, who think it simply means “conservative”). The guy seems to be a secular liberal, who only supported Bush because of the war. Now that he perceives the war winding down, he has reverted to his core liberalism and secularism (actually virulently anti-Christian than strictly secular).
No libertarian would ever have been pro-Giuliani.
Plus he takes sophomoric pictures that he in his hippie-addled mind thinks of objet d’art.
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