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Bill Nye: Bible doesn’t tell Earth’s true history
Associated Press ^ | Feb 5, 2014 4:38 AM EST | Dylan Lovan

Posted on 02/05/2014 2:43:22 AM PST by Olog-hai

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To: Renegade

Actually, Nazism came out of evolution. It was thought as a more evolved form and government and was built around building a super race through evolution.


121 posted on 02/05/2014 7:31:05 AM PST by bray (http://www.braylog.com/id47.html)
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To: bray
And so did rugged individualism and the Gilded Age. A false premise to make. I will make another false premise. Progressivism in the US was created to oppose the Social Darwinisn of the robber barons, thus Liberalism is on the side of righteousness. Just as false as your statement.
122 posted on 02/05/2014 7:37:09 AM PST by gusty
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To: gusty

How do you compare a free market to Nazism? Robber Barons is a lie made up by the Marxists. They still vilify the wealthy as Robber Barons, perhaps you are on the wrong website?

Give one example of a Robber Barron, I can give numerous examples of govts that followed Darwinism and millions were murdered because of it.


123 posted on 02/05/2014 7:49:54 AM PST by bray (http://www.braylog.com/id47.html)
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To: gusty
some intelligent people in Middle Ages believed in some flaky theories.

This is why I say that using scientific consensus to determine 'facts' is dangerous. What instead should said is that this is what is 'currently believed to be true' and whether or not it is believed we should act upon it.

Currently the consensus is that life 'evolved' from simple to complex. Yet that is challenged by scientific observation of locked life processes and molecules. That is that X, Y, Z and T have to occur in exactly the right sequence or Death or insufficiency happens. Or that exactly just the right amount of X is provided and used or the whole thing fails.

My belief is that the discovery and dependency of science on understanding these complexities will force the theory of evolution and consensus to be changed and/or abandoned.

The demands of an ever more complex technical world will demand it.

124 posted on 02/05/2014 7:50:33 AM PST by sr4402
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To: sr4402

As we learn more and more about science and life the more evolution falls apart. In 10 years nobody will believe in evolution and the Bible will still be alive.

Nye even through in the life came from space on a meteor to begin evolution. How would life survive the heat coming from space and where did that life come from? They can believe in alien life but not God????

Pray America is Waking


125 posted on 02/05/2014 8:02:02 AM PST by bray (http://www.braylog.com/id47.html)
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To: bray

“As we learn more and more about science and life the more evolution falls apart.”

Who is ‘we’?


126 posted on 02/05/2014 8:28:03 AM PST by Fuzz
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To: Westbrook

Nye doesn’t have a monopoly on that failing.


127 posted on 02/05/2014 8:31:19 AM PST by Natufian (t)
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To: eCSMaster

I guess that would depend on which year you are speaking of. A year is a complete rotation around the sun. This makes a year is relative to your location. A year on earth is not the same as another planet. One earth year is equal to approx 365 earth days while a year on Jupiter is equal to approx 4332 earth days. A year based on God’s location my be very different to one based on an earth year.

I also believe that the bible mixes heavenly time and earth time. I am not sure how to tell which is which but it’s obvious that a day is not always a day and a year is not always a year. Just my 2 cents....


128 posted on 02/05/2014 8:34:53 AM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: Natufian

> Nye doesn’t have a monopoly on that failing.

Of course, but at least Ken Ham stated up front that his assertions about the past are based upon his FAITH on the Bible, NOT on ridiculously authoratative assertions based upon a pseudo-scientific theory that becomes ever more frayed as the intricacies of life become more known.


129 posted on 02/05/2014 8:36:34 AM PST by Westbrook ()Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: cornelis

There are things I don’t know. There are things that you don’t know. There are things that humanity doesn’t know. That’s reality. Understanding that we don’t know things has led to an explosion in questions, research and rational study that have got us from where we were 500 years ago to where we are today - knowing a hell of a lot more than we did then.


130 posted on 02/05/2014 8:37:47 AM PST by Natufian (t)
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To: sr4402
With the small and the great, Bill will find out before the Lord whether the Bible is true or not.

He knows now.

"But God’s angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud over truth.

But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being.

So nobody has a good excuse. What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn’t treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life. They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand."

--Romans 1:18-23 (Message)

131 posted on 02/05/2014 8:50:47 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Olog-hai

The real question is not whether or not you or I believe in creation or evolution. The REAL question, and the one evolutionists try to avoid, is whether or not you or I believe in the God of Creation and that His Only Begotten Son came to save the world.


132 posted on 02/05/2014 8:53:44 AM PST by jda ("Righteousness exalts a nation . . .")
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To: eCSMaster

The Bible doesn’t say it is, either.


133 posted on 02/05/2014 8:58:23 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: ZULU

The Bible told us the earth was round when most men believed it to be flat (Isaiah 40:22).


134 posted on 02/05/2014 9:01:50 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Dutch Boy
A year on earth is not the same as another planet. One earth year is equal to approx 365 earth days while a year on Jupiter is equal to approx 4332 earth days. A year based on God’s location my be very different to one based on an earth year.

Was God orbiting something?

135 posted on 02/05/2014 9:04:37 AM PST by Focault's Pendulum (I live in NJ....' Nuff said!)
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To: knarf

“Permeation” refers to God permeating the scientific process. I prefer the term over “intelligent design” which could be construed as any number of other Creationist theories.


136 posted on 02/05/2014 9:08:31 AM PST by arderkrag (An Unreconstructed Georgian, STANDING WITH RAND.)
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To: Olog-hai

MOST people KNEW the earth was round. A Greek feller named Eratosthenes PROVED it several hundred years before Christ by measuring the sun’s shadow at different latitude in Egypt. He even figured out its diameter within a few hundred miles.

The “flat-earth” theory was poppycock. People in the Middle Ages knew it was round. You can tell by watching a sailing ship sail out to sea. If the earth is small,the ship would get smaller and smaller and disappear. Medieval mariners knew that the hull disappears first, then the lower masts and spars and then the upper masts and spars. Could only happen if the earth was round.


137 posted on 02/05/2014 9:09:18 AM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office. Ted Cruz/Phil Robertson in 2016.)
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To: arderkrag
God permeating ... or ANY kind of 'ing' (eternal, Creator, omnipotent) might be construed as a creationist idea ?


138 posted on 02/05/2014 9:12:23 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: ZULU
The geological record shows a progress of anthropoid creatures moving forward in the fossil record to modern man.

Of course it is - every new species is recorded perfectly in the fossil record???


139 posted on 02/05/2014 9:13:22 AM PST by jda ("Righteousness exalts a nation . . .")
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To: This I Wonder32460

Exactly. Seven days could mean seven ages. The bible says a day unto God is like a thousand years. Is that a literal thousand years? Was Jesus being literal when He said to forgive someone “seventy times seven”?


140 posted on 02/05/2014 9:17:45 AM PST by arderkrag (An Unreconstructed Georgian, STANDING WITH RAND.)
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