Posted on 01/04/2009 5:39:47 AM PST by PurpleMountains
The Evolutionists are always looking for the missing link and missing it.
If man evolved fom apes, why are there still apes?
What a world we will live in when all that governs the affairs of men is the doctrine of the “survival of the fittest,” better stated as “the law of the jungle.”"
Pure nonsense. The evil that rules some men's souls existed long before Darwin came along, and would still exist if Darwin's theory were somehow proved wrong.
The Bible says God created the heavens, earth and all its creatures. It does not say HOW He did it. Science, including Darwin, have been workking to understand that.
Bottom line: science is not a "religion," but "creationism" certainly is, and is NOT science.
I too held your belief rather strongly but my view is beginning to change and I found it interesting that a theologian who I respect deeply has changed a lifetime belief concerning the 6 day creation:
http://reformationfaithtoday.com/2008/07/10/rc-sproul-and-six-day-creation/
A noted evangelical, R C Sproul, has announced a conversion from having previously accepted the theory of evolution as valid science. He now accepts both the Biblical and scientific evidence that the world was created in 6 literal 24-hour days and possibly as recently as around 6,000 years ago.
R C Sproul is the author of some 60 Christian books. He has now stated on the record:
For most of my teaching career, I considered the ‘framework hypothesis’ to be a possibility. But I have now changed my mind. I now hold to a literal six-day creation. Genesis says that God created the universe and everything in it in six twenty-four-hour periods.
The ‘framework hypothesis’ was an attempt to maintain that the Bible was authoritative whilst at the same time denying the six ordinary days of creation. It was first outlined by Arie Noordtzij in 1924. The framework hypothesis holds that Genesis 1 is merely a ‘framework’ into which evolution over hundreds of millions of years can be fitted. Its leading proponents, Meredith Kline and Henri Blocher, have admitted that their adoption of this hypothesis was born of a desperation to fit the Bible into the alleged ‘facts’ of science.
“Evolution an Creation are ideas that comfortably coexist.”
I could not agree more.
BTW, life w/o twisted knickers is preferable.. ;-)
Some people think UFO’s are real too if it sells pimp it.
Science is not wrong when it is true. Truth is God created the world.
"Survival of the fittest. And I get to decide who is fit."
Facts are the world’s data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein’s theory of gravitation replaced Newton’s, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome. And human beings evolved from apelike ancestors whether they did so by Darwin’s proposed mechanism or by some other, yet to be discovered.
[...] Evolutionists make no claim for perpetual truth, though creationists often do (and then attack us for a style of argument that they themselves favor). In science, “fact” can only mean “confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.” I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
— Stephen Jay Gould, “Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes”
What about this sort of evil?
Evolutionary theory has changed from simple gradualism in Darwin's day to punctuated equilibrium as the most accepted interpretation today. Evolutionary theory is in the process of replacing concepts of probability and randomness with concepts of game theory and the assumption that behavior is a driving force in evolution. I'd say the theory has "evolved" considerably since Darwin's time.
Creationism itself has changed over time from the simplistic "God did it" hypothesis to incorporate mechanistic concepts like the largely discredited "irreducibility" theory. The truth is, creationism is evolving too.
People can close their eyes, stick their fingers in their ears and chant "Darwinism's coming to an end, Darwinism's coming to an end..." until they're blue in the face. If the science is still good they won't get anywhere.
Paleontologists are the folks who dig in the earth to find fossils of creatures long extinct. They also classify the bones according to families, genus-es & species. Based on their findings, they tell us that something like 99% of all species which ever existed have gone extinct.
I don't know the number of extinct species they've identified, but it's at least hundreds, probably thousands.
And EVERY ONE OF THEM could, in some sense, be called a "missing link." Of course, now that it's found and identified, it's no longer "missing" is it? ;-)
Isaiah 40
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
23 He brings princes to naught
and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
24 No sooner are they planted,
no sooner are they sown,
no sooner do they take root in the ground,
than he blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
25 “To whom will you compare me?
Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
26 Lift your eyes and look to the heavens:
Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one,
and calls them each by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
not one of them is missing.
Truth is not provable but it is knowable.
Very interesting. But, if apples can’t rise, how do they get up on the tree?
And besides that; if applesauce is true, why are there still apples?
But it has create two "missing links" on either side of it. "missing links" are increasing twice as fast as they are discovered. Take that, Darwin!
Eugenics is an example of what happens when politics misuses science, not that science is evil.
The truth is, both religion and science have been used as an excuse to destroy the hated other.
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