Posted on 06/30/2015 9:59:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
IIRC, the Union Jack is supposed to represent England (St. George’s Cross), Scotland (St. Andrew’s Cross) and Northern Ireland (St. Patrick’s Cross).......................
How many millions of failures happened along the way?
It never occurs to them that God designed them that way.............
Future descendants.........................
No. The animals with spikes survived while those without were eaten.
The animals did not mentally develop spikes because they needed them for survival - God did that for them.
How boring if God just creates everything. How much more interesting for God to use evolution and watch how things turn out!
God created the Universe. We are just on the first steps to understanding how God actually does things.
I have always wondered if they chose the Cross of St. Andrew because so many Scots and Scotch-Irish settled in the South, but I’ve never researched it.
Wouldn’t surprise me if it was...............
I would’ve thought that too, but it wasn’t according to wikipedia:
“According to Coski, the “Saint Andrew’s Cross” (also used on the flag of Scotland as a white saltire on a blue field), had no special place in Southern iconography at the time, and if Miles had not been eager to conciliate the Southern Jews his flag would have used the traditional upright, “Saint George’s Cross” (as used on the flag of England, a red cross on a white field). A colonel named James B. Walton submitted a battle flag design essentially identical to Miles’ except with an upright Saint George’s cross, but Beauregard chose the diagonal cross design.”
The way you explain it (with or without God) makes more sense then the way they explain it, which was more of my point with my post.
The German philosopher Goethe said, “Bidden or unbidden, God is always present.”
Scientists can’t help themselves. Its the pressure they’re under in their scientific fields.
Your point is appreciated.
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