Intellectuals Who Doubt Darwin

The American Prowler ^ | 11/24/2004 | Hunter Baker

[Ahban]

Just becasue God is all powerful does not mean He is automatically going to impose his will on everyone- Bob Dobbs and even Ahban might object to that. Just because he has the power does not mean He must use it.

You are seeing a creation that according to Romans has been subjected to futility, but in the hopes that its people one day overcome it. It would not do to have a perfect creation inhabited by a sinful humanity. We must be better than the creation we were meant to rule.

With so much pain in the world, if God is loving and all powerful, then He must not be using His power to immediately impose His will on the Earth. Indeed that is what the Bible teaches. In the temptation in the wilderness Satan told Jesus that the kingdoms of the world were his (Satan's) and Jesus did not dispute that. BUt Jesus came to undo the works of the devil and make those kingdoms His- as the hearts of the people became His.

No, all this pain is not God's perfect will, but it is the inevitable result of our rejection of God.

[Blzbba]

"How intense love grows as one lives a life for the LORD."


Go thru a situation where your innocent baby daughter is diagnosed with a lifelong, incurable disease and get back to me about living life for the Lord. He has chosen to either inflict this on my daughter for no reason, or has chosen to not interfere and help her, or doesn't exist in the first place. Either way, screw Him.

[PatrickHenry]

I am going to try an experiment. In all of these crevo threads, I am going to post the following to try to head off some of the really lame creationist arguments before they get started. Probably a waste of time, but what the heck...

Nice, but it will indeed be a waste of time. At my freeper homepage I've got dozens of links that I used to routinely post into these threads. The creationists never seemed to pay attention, and I eventually decided not to clog all the threads with the same post all the time. But go ahead and give it a try. Just don't expect any results.

[MississippiMan]

I think it's funny (tragic really) to see Creationists try to tell God how He should have done things.

Creationists, myself among them, accept exactly what GOD tells us about the issue. You too will accept it without question in the end.

MM

[TalonDJ]

"true science" and picking unproven tenants that you refuse to question are incompatible. No, I am not arguing that the tectonic plates don't exist or any of that. I am only pointing out that refusing to question something that has not been proven conclusively is bad science. There problems with the commonly used models of geologic age. To refuse to acknowledge them is just as bad science as picking an age for the earth and bending all conclusions to match it.

I believe God invented science and logic so I have nothing to fear from an absolutely objective approach that questions everything that is not bolted down and sometimes questions those things also.

[balrog666]

Maybe I should write one. I need a retirement stake. [/sarcasm]

But think of the money you could make on the fundamentalist "lecture" circuit!

[stremba]

I am sure you are right, but I just get tired of typing the same replies over and over. Figure I'll just take care of all of them at once.

[SBOinTX]

Darwin said that if no proof was found that macro-evolution (evolving from one species to another) was wrong.

These guys are agreeing with Darwin when they "doubt" him.

[Mr. Lucky]

You're confusing the Scopes trial with the movie Inherit the Wind which was, like many of the pillars of Darwinism, entirely fictitious.

[longshadow]

results-oriented placemarker

[Shryke]

You'll notice the join date for the person you are addressing.

[Junior]

Designed Universe retread?

[Shryke]

The creationists never seemed to pay attention

It's worse than that. FAR worse. Creationism has not just limited itself to never offering any benefit to mankind or science (pardon the double negative), but it actively seeks the retardation and denial of said benefits. It's sinister, to say the least.

[Shryke]

Ding! And the pool on his FR lifespan?

[Moonman62]

Creationists, myself among them, accept exactly what GOD tells us about the issue.

He tells us about it everyday through his Creation, and it is the way it is, not the way we want it to be.

[BibChr]

As you will be told, there is no such thing.

No intellectual doubts Darwin.

Anyone who doubts Darwin is not an intellectual.

(Rinse, repeat.)

Dan

[Dimensio]

Those who cling to it blindly normally do so as it affords them the luxury of viewing themselves as merely animals, acting instinctively, without the consequence or judgement of a Creator.

Accepting evolution != lacking belief in a Creator.

Only liars make this claim.

[Dimensio]

Most folks think that the evolutionists WON that trial.

I don't. Whether or not it was totally stupid to teach creationism in Tennessee schools wasn't the point of the trial.

[Dimensio]

PHILLIP JOHNSON,

Because who, of all people, is more qualified to determine what is and is not sound biological research than a lawyer?

[Dimensio]

The problem with evolution theory is that it doesn't take into consideration what happened pre-Earth.

That would be because the theory of evolution doesn't apply when life doesn't exist. Without Earth, there's no Earth-based life, thus the theory of evolution is inapplicable.