Tim the turtle
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How do you guys keep managing to post in this thread when I'm gone. Don't you have school or something? This thing moves far too fast.
Also, Darwin did not "guess", Darwin observed the differences of the species of bird on the Gelapogos islands and based his theories on that. Creationism came from a book, I might as well just believe the creation story in the Silmarillion, it amounts to the same thing.
I'm not belittling your beliefs, but at the same time I will not stand to see you belittle the ideas of Islam or Judaism or even my "faith".
N.B. Do not read into where I said my faith, I wont go into it.
I do not mean to imply that you are deliberately belittling other religions, but to say yours is "right" does strike me as... arrogant.
Again though, that is just the word of certain individuals basing their assumptions on the same grainy photographs."Debates center on whether or not it's a strange rock formation, a crashed airplane, perhaps a fortress or some other structure hundreds of years old or maybe something more interesting of potentially biblical proportions," Taylor told SPACE.com. Certain individuals in the know, he added, believe what is visible in certain satellite pictures is the bow of a ship sticking out of a glacier.
The anomaly is apparently more than 600-feet long (183 meters), Taylor said, at least that part of it jutting out as seen in aerial and satellite imagery. One expert, a naval engineer and architect, when looking at the photos believes "prongs" or "ribs" of the keel of an ancient marine structure can be identified, he said.
I was being facetious.That's not the point.
So then what is it, a bird or a reptile. If it has features from both, then it is still evidence for evolution.Actually, biologists have concluded that there are fully-formed features, of both bird and reptile.
I honestly cannot see how you arrived at that conclusion. Answers B and C are just as logical, as long as you believe that Jesus was just a man and not the son of God.In order to believe the Jesus part of the Bible, you really must accept the rest of it.
Either:
A)God is real, the Bible is truth
or
B)God is false, the Bible isn't truth
or
C)God is crazy
The only logical answer is A.
The original Hebrew text opens with the line "In the beginning there was the word." Strikes me as a rather Platonic concept there, monotheistic religions are all basically just footnotes to Plato.Seriously. The original Hebrew text of the book of Genesis uses a word that translates to 'a period of time' instead of 'day'. So it didn't necessarily take God seven 24 hour periods to create the universe. It could have taken him seven periods of 8 billion years for all we know.
Why Christian, again Ergonomics, I must ask you why Christianity? I am perfectly ok with the idea of a God (though I'm still an evolutionist), but you could quite feasibly defend a deist point of view, but I guarantee that by the standards of proper debate, you will not win with a purely Christian mindset. Here's an idea, go and read Descarte's Meditiations. A good read, not too difficult and some useful philosophy, but even though Descarte's was a Christian, his philosophy is not, and that is why his arguments work more effectively than simply using the Bible.I bet you that as long as you choose to debate here, I will disprove EVERY "anti-Christian theory" you have!
If it was a global flood why did it only happen at the Grand Canyon to such a great extent?the formation of the grand canyon has also been theorized to have been created when the Great Flood happend which quickly spewed water from within the earth, and the amount of water proposed by the biblical account would quite possibly erode the cracks in the earth extremely quickly
Do you realise how interesting this question is? To pass it off as a simple "God did it" is an insult to the sheer scope of the question. Yes, God might have done it, but there are so many more theories, so many more ideas, so many more questions to ask and be answered. How can you simply lie back and state "God did it" without exploring such an unexplored field?Actually, he has a point there. Why do humans have morals?
No, there are many civilisations before the Decalogue which still exercised such rules and ethics.BUT! These principles come from the Ten Commandments, do they not?
Darwin didn't even come up with the theory of evolution. The first record of the theory was from a dutch trader some 200 years prior to Darwin who compiled a diary of his findings on the biological differences between certain bird species.Kind of like how this one guy just sort of guessed that perhaps all animals evolved from each other, then later admitted his own theories were absurd while on his deathbed.
Also, Darwin did not "guess", Darwin observed the differences of the species of bird on the Gelapogos islands and based his theories on that. Creationism came from a book, I might as well just believe the creation story in the Silmarillion, it amounts to the same thing.
There's something I honestly don't get about the whole "humans fell" thing. If, before Eve ate the apple, there was no sin (yes?), how did she manage to become tempted in the first place if Sin did not exist, seems that being tempted to go against God's word is Sin, but that did not exist so Eve would never have eaten the apple.We have chosen to refute God's laws because we as humans are sinners.
Again with this, I still don't get it. You never really explained it to me, why Christianity over Islam. I know you said that you base it on the Bible, but why chose the Bible over the Koran or the Torah? What basis do you use. It would be far easier to chose a deistic approach to arguing for God, yet you chose a theistic one, why?My religion never changes because it right.
I'm not belittling your beliefs, but at the same time I will not stand to see you belittle the ideas of Islam or Judaism or even my "faith".
N.B. Do not read into where I said my faith, I wont go into it.
I do not mean to imply that you are deliberately belittling other religions, but to say yours is "right" does strike me as... arrogant.
They are exactly the same thing, only on larger scales. If you accept one exists, then the other will too.Microevolution. Not macro. The viruses are adapting to the constant attack of the body's immune system.