I will find out about gold's transparency for you from the original sourcetexts.I await that, with baited breath. I'm sure your original source text is just as authoritative as the one that told you lies about Columbus, and mistranslated "circle" in Isaiah.
But in the meantime, please tell me one thing about the oh so scientific evolution. What is its mathematical formula?
While I am thinking of what that might be, you can refresh my memory with the mathematical formula for germ theory, or the mathematical formula for atomic theory.
It's science, right?
Yes
Gotta be reducible to a formula.
No. Thank you for sharing your ignorance of science with us. Some might be embarassed by having posted the amount of ignorant nonsense that you've managed in this thread, but you continue right on doing it, unaware, like the sad drunk at a party where everyone else is sober, what ass you are making of yourself. Clothed in the armour of Holy Righteousness...
And leave time out of it, as has been stated ad nasuem by evothinkers, time is divorced from evolutionary processes.
What on earth have you been sniffing? When you can phrase that question and its assumptions coherently in english (the preferred language of FR) I'm sure someone will have a go at answering it.
What's the scientific formula for evolution again?
There isn't one. Lots of scientific theories aren't expressible as formulae. If you knew anything at all about science you would know this.
A suggestion. Before you post again about science or evolution, try to learn something about it first. Otherwise you just earn my scorn, and the predictive scorn of St Augustine, who had a lot to say about people like you.
No, doll, it is you who do not know human nature.
No man will go to his death for what he KNOWS to be a lie.
How much clearer does one have to be?
I am amazed that for all the big talk about science, there is not one prooftext or formula or mathematical equation posted here to describe the CHEMICAL process of evolution. For that is what it must be.
It is true, I don't think much, if at all, about evolution. The only time I have ever given it much thought is when C.S. Lewis mused upon it in one of his essays about art and culture, and compared it to a grand idea that shows some of man's inherent majesty -- to believe in such a vaulted lie -- a majesty the betrays his spiritual nature, but a majestic lie of evolution nonetheless.
I remember deconstructing Spielberg's E.T. for its Jungian/Campbellian roots and recalling C.S. Lewis's lines about the counterfeit grandeur of evolution when thinking about that counterfeit Christ in the main character of E.T.
But, that's about it. Who cares? No missing link. No half man/half whatever. Ever. It's complete bunk and a salve for people against the truth of their own sin and need for a savior against our own propensity to do wrong. For example, even as a child, I remember trying to keep the ten commandments for one day and was astonished that I broke one of them.
You try it. Then tell me if you need a savior. No man is sinless and this is the problem of the whole world.
As for evolution and Christians who claim that they believe in it, evolution does nothing for us in the moral quandaries and crisis-es of the day except give us a convenient excuse that we are really animals and all this moral stuff is just societal add ons.
If my boredom with evolution has raised your scorn -- tough. No one has offered any prooftext or chemical description of what you all are hanging your hats on -- so be as scornful as you like. Augustine, would not have joined you, he would have been too busy listening to the Spirit who told him to "Pick up and read" and would've blown off evothink for the pagan avatarist lie that it is.