Posted on 12/06/2006 10:43:05 AM PST by Young Werther
What drought? My lawn is just fine ... of course I'm right next to the lake (50 meters)
LOL! Exactly. Next thing they'll tell us our SUVs are causing global warming on Mars.
It might keep scholarship and poetry alive. It's a stretch, I know.
I have read that up to 95% of scientists are athiests.
Think of it this way. When little children are taught about some virus they found on Mars (in public school), do you think they will mention the possibility that God put it there? No way. They will use it as evidence life just "springs up" anywhere for the heck of it. The evolutionists would eat this up.
Try to tell that to the Affiliation of Christian Geologists!
How many billions or trilions have been spent to convince people not to believe the Bible?
...she assked, surrounded by a variety of objects using technological spinoffs of the space programs.
You hate to see tax money wasted on what, exploration or scientists being anti-religion. If you hate to see money wasted on exploration I must say that I am confused considering that I'm guessing you are probably writing from the New World.
Must be grant time.
Not to mention you would have a hard time explaining to me why if there is water on Mars and they find microbe life on it why hasn't anything evolved from that? While life on earth has sprouted into millions of different creatures.
That is bull. Don't take a couple of noisy PhDs to represent the population.
-------------------------Robert Heinlein
Yes, it sure does look like that's a spring! I would love to take the time to look at this info in detail, along with horizontal and vertical scales of the features.
"Searching for "life on other planets" is another attempt by science to undermime religion"
Like chemistry undermined alchemy; like psychology undermined possession; like vaccinations undermine God's plans for early death. It's a conspiracy I tell ya!
"Think of it this way. When little children are taught about some virus they found on Mars (in public school), do you think they will mention the possibility that God put it there? No way. They will use it as evidence life just "springs up" anywhere for the heck of it. The evolutionists would eat this up."
Well, chances of a "virus" being found on Mars are very low, considering that it doesn't have a hospitable enough environment to support a viral host. You probably meant "bacteria." I find it curious that you're more interested in other peoples reactions to such a discovery than in learning the difference between the two...
"God put it there" isn't a scientific explanation. I personally would like to see the public school system eradicated, but while it exists, there's no room for religion in it unless you are comfortable with Islam and Wicca being given equal ground with what you believe.
Anyway, I doublt that evolutionists would eat up bacteria found on Mars. It's probably not very compatible with our biophysiology, and we won't have any natural immunity to it. ;)
I had doubted Whitehead's beliefs and so had never read him because of his association with Russell and the Positivists. But, I found that he was not associated with the Positivists except for Russell, and that only for writing their little logic book. They they parted company. Now I have several of Whitehead's books and find he is one of the most stalwart proponents of evolution, and puts God as the eternal object that needs no other object and must be there for other objects to exist. Not an anthropomorphic view, but far from materialistic and certainly not Positivism.
Oh yeah? That's nothin'. Just wait until they discover oil on Mars. LOL!
Where in the Bible does it say that the Earth is the only place in the universe that God created life? Why would finding life on Mars automatically mean that people shouldn't believe the Bible?
Where do you get this from? I've got degrees in Biology and Biochemistry and I have not observed this.
"I have read that up to 95% of scientists are athiests."
It is commonly accepted that up to 95% of news columnists and journalists make stuff up.
Nope. Genesis talks about the creation of the Earth. There's no particular reason that I can see to assume that the Lord would place stories about the creation of other planets and of life on them in Genesis.
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