Posted on 08/25/2004 10:14:24 AM PDT by Michael_Michaelangelo
Sometimes you have to stick your finger in it every once in a while just to see if it's still there.
It's not at all the same as "I can just tell." If your wife (friend, son, whatever) tells you something, and I ask you how you know such-and-such, and you say, "My wife made that clear," that answers the question. That's not the same thing as your saying, "I can just tell."
In what way has God made Himself known? In many ways, of which I responded with one, since it's one knowable by everyone: by the things which He has made.
DNA is not what scientists seem to think it is. It is not the building blocks of life, it is not the plans for building life forms. It is only a couple of switches for a couple of features in an otherwise much more complex machine.
A bit of knowledge about data and the complexity of living organisms.
Astounding!
As you suggest, Wonder Warthog, evolution/gene mutation does seem to go hand in hand with added stress. A microbial evolutionist here at MSU separated a culture of bacteria into three separate cultures a decade or so ago and has followed their evolution/ gene mutation through about 30,000 generations. Their evolution does seem to be punctuated and stress-induced. Interestingly, the three separate cultures of the same bacteria have had different gene mutations that allow it to cope with the same stressor. The different cultures are evolving in different ways to deal with stresses to their environment. Pretty amazing.
I am a chemist, and that happens all the time.
WOW! Veeerrryyy interesting. Thanks for the info.
Ad hominem alert:
Since you are so fond of bible verses, I thought I'd throw one your way:
Deuteronomy 19:28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
PS, love the picture in your profile!
I will be more specific,
God, the God of the Bible so that the phrase 'this God' in unneeded, indwelt me with the Holy Spirit and I began to speak in unknown tongues, just as is written in the Scriptures. I tell you I felt the Spirit well up from my innermost being. It felt great.
Years later a young man whose parents were concerned about his drug use sent him to see me. He was already a believer, but this was an obstacle. We prayed, and he also received the Holy Spirit with the sign of speaking in unknown tounges. He said it felt so great that he realized that drug use was just a cheap imitation of the feeling he got from the Holy Spirit- that this was the real thing.
The euphoria does not continue, but the speaking in unknown tounges does.
My grandmother was healed from lupus. I remember how frail she was in 1988 when I was home on leave from the military. I remembered thinking that it would be the last time I saw her alive on Earth. She is still alive today and she has a doctors report saying that she does not have a trace of lupus.
My step-brother in law was in a car wreck as a teenager, He had to wear a leg brace because his leg was crooked. A preacher prayed over him and do you that his leg straightened out that very day. Right in front of his family. They threw the leg brace away- it did not fit from that moment forward because his leg was straight and remains so to this day.
These are events from my life but many such events are recorded in the Bible. Read the 53rd chapter (or is it 51?)of Isaiah and realize that this man was a prophet of the living God speaking of Jesus Christ. The Bible is full of fulfilled prophecy. In fact, that is how they got to be in the bible- that is how they got to be acknowledged as really representing God.
Perhaps no amount of testimony will convince you. Perhaps you will dismiss it all. If so, this is not a head problem, but a heart problem.
BWAHAHA! Delicious!
They profess NO shame, but they do have mighty quick fingers on the Abuse button.
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...or all the schooling in the world will not keep a large fraction of the population from being pig-ignorant. No offense.
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