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To: Coyoteman

that’s a lie and you should know it...but maybe you don’t in your over educated state of mind. Those groups are connecting the dots of scientific discoveries including the amazing dna code which is more complex than a computer code, and showing how they lead to a creator. Totally logical and scientific too. You and others like you who are so high minded think that you can sort of self righteously divorce God from science not understanding that they cannot be...many of our present scientists and great ones of the past knew this, including Sir Issac Newton.


37 posted on 03/29/2008 7:54:04 PM PDT by fabian
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To: fabian
that’s a lie and you should know it...but maybe you don’t in your over educated state of mind.

Which is a lie?

Those groups are connecting the dots of scientific discoveries including the amazing dna code which is more complex than a computer code, and showing how they lead to a creator. Totally logical and scientific too.

Really? AiG is doing science when they require their members to agree to the following?

Summary of the AiG Statement of Faith

For a slightly more detailed copy of the Statement of Faith, please make your request in writing.

(A) PRIORITIES

  1. The scientific aspects of creation are important, but are secondary in importance to the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
  2. The doctrines of Creator and Creation cannot ultimately be divorced from the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

(B) BASICS

  1. The 66 books of the Bible are the written Word of God. The Bible is divinely inspired and inerrant throughout. Its assertions are factually true in all the original autographs. It is the supreme authority in everything it teaches.
  2. The final guide to the interpretation of Scripture is Scripture itself.
  3. The account of origins presented in Genesis is a simple but factual presentation of actual events and therefore provides a reliable framework for scientific research into the question of the origin and history of life, mankind, the Earth and the universe.
  4. The various original life forms (kinds), including mankind, were made by direct creative acts of God. The living descendants of any of the original kinds (apart from man) may represent more than one species today, reflecting the genetic potential within the original kind. Only limited biological changes (including mutational deterioration) have occurred naturally within each kind since Creation.
  5. The great Flood of Genesis was an actual historic event, worldwide (global) in its extent and effect.
  6. The special creation of Adam (the first man) and Eve (the first woman), and their subsequent fall into sin, is the basis for the necessity of salvation for mankind.
  7. Death (both physical and spiritual) and bloodshed entered into this world subsequent to and as a direct consequence of manÕs sin.

(C) THEOLOGY

  1. The Godhead is triune: one God, three Persons--God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
  2. All mankind are sinners, inherently from Adam and individually (by choice) and are therefore subject to God's wrath and condemnation.
  3. Freedom from the penalty and power of sin is available to man only through the sacrificial death and shed blood of Jesus Christ, and His complete and bodily Resurrection from the dead.
  4. The Holy Spirit enables the sinner to repent and believe in Jesus Christ.
  5. The Holy Spirit lives and works in each believer to produce the fruits of righteousness.
  6. Salvation is a gift received by faith alone in Christ alone and expressed in the individual's repentance, recognition of the death of Christ as full payment for sin, and acceptance of the risen Christ as Saviour, Lord and God.
  7. All things necessary for our salvation are either expressly set down in Scripture or may be deduced by good and necessary consequence from Scripture.
  8. Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.
  9. Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead, ascended to Heaven, and is currently seated at the right hand of God the Father, and shall return in person to this Earth as Judge of the living and the dead.
  10. Satan is the personal spiritual adversary of both God and man.
  11. Those who do not believe in Christ are subject to everlasting conscious punishment, but believers enjoy eternal life with God.
  12. The only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman. God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of marriage.

(D) GENERAL

  1. Scripture teaches a recent origin for man and the whole creation.
  2. The days in Genesis do not correspond to geologic ages, but are six [6] consecutive twenty-four [24] hour days of Creation.
  3. The Noachian Flood was a significant geological event and much (but not all) fossiliferous sediment originated at that time.
  4. The "gap" theory has no basis in Scripture.
  5. The view, commonly used to evade the implications or the authority of Biblical teaching, that knowledge and/or truth may be divided into "secular" and "religious," is rejected.
  6. No apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.

Hmmmm. Doesn't look like much room for science and the scientific method there. Looks a lot more like religion, in fact, than science.

39 posted on 03/29/2008 8:05:10 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: fabian; Coyoteman
your over educated state of mind.

Anytime I hear this, I know the speaker has no formal scientific education and need no longer listen to him, since he's speaking out of ignorance.

I'm a Bible-believing Christian with a B/S in Chemistry and a doctorate in law. But I'm not a six-day creationist. That interpretation of Genesis is a creature of the fundamentalist movements of the 19th century, NOT of the historical Church.

136 posted on 03/30/2008 10:49:36 AM PDT by jude24 (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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