Posted on 10/16/2005 1:28:00 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
Inferences that have no predictive power are not part of science.
That may be. But that just tells us that human life is more than science can give.
God made Adam and found him to be lonely so he offered all the animals to Adam inorder for Adam to have a suitable partner. Adam said (after trying all the animals), God, please, I am a man. I don't want no stinkin' animals, I want a woman!
We don't try to cram all of life into science class. We have history, philosophy, religion, literature -- all of which deal with the ineffable. Science is empirical.
Why did He create them man and women if he didn't intend for them to engage in the man-women thing?
You know, that's curious. If God offered Adam all the animals as companions (presumably, therefore, animal companions were okay with God), what's the big deal about ... animal companions now?
Projection:
"The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone or something as a naive or unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt."
I must be missing something, because I don't see how this contradicts evolution. According to modern science, the first humans were male and female.
All life was asexual at some point, but human life was never asexual.
Of course, it's the conservatives who want to do away with tenure. If that happens, Behe will be one of the first to go.
good point.
Uh, yeah, Jerry Bergman is a phony whose writings (and finger pointing) on issues of racism and discrimination are about as dependable as those of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
He claims...
Leading Nazis, and early 1900 influential German biologists, revealed in their writings that Darwin’s theory and publications had a major influence upon Nazi race policies.
But if you actually read Hitler and other leading Nazis you find that, although they did indeed appeal at times to (a naive and superficial version of) Darwinism, it was to argue for their doctrines of militarism.
Nazi racism was actually based not on scientific doctrines but on (a mystical version of) creationism. Read Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the Twentieth Century. Rosenberg, the Nazis' most important philosopher of race, asserts that each race is created with a unique "soul," giving each race specific tendencies, attributes and geniuses. (The genius of the Aryan race was supposedly conquest and enslavement of lesser races.) Hitler echoes these views in Mein Kampf and in his speeches.
The Nazi selective breeding ideas Bergman refers to were NOT based on any Darwinian scheme for evolving or improving the race. Rather their purpose was to RESTORE the lost "purity" of the "blood" which carried the racial "soul". None of this nonsense has a damn thing to do with Darwin.
Again, Darwin was appealed to in a cartoonish way in arguing for militarism, in that the brutality of warfare would supposedly "select" the dominate races. But still this was secondary to awaking the "natural" tendency of the Aryan "blood" toward the conquest and rule of lesser races, a tendency installed therein by the Creator.
I might point out that not all humans are clearly male or clearly female.
What you are engaging in is know, in psychological terms, as "projection".
Sorry. I did project that about Adam wanting a women. The Bible doesn't say that. It says that God put him in a deep sleep.
Some are both male and female. DNA from both and organs from both.
Scientists always point to the Galileo case. I point to the case of Galois. No one of high ability has ever been treated more badly than this young man was. And it was all because he was dealing with totally egocentric people...that is, the typical scientific academic.
*** I must be missing something, because I don't see how this contradicts evolution. According to modern science, the first humans were male and female.***
You missed the FROM THE BEGINNING part.
Humans were created in the beginning as male and female.
The were not created as blobs that, after several billion years, finally evolved into males and females.
They were male and female from the beginning. From the beginning of what? From the beginning of the world - not billions of years later.
Since you are critical of my projection that "Adam wanted a women" you must be happy with the animals. hmmm.
You inserted that "from the beginning of the world." The Bible doesn't say that. Is that your direct link to God in action again?
Points.
God created Adam before Eve. Was Adam asexual or sexual before Eve.
Adam and Eve had no interest in sex prior to the eating the apple. How can you say they were sexual before since Eve had no desire or capacity to bear children. If they were sexual, it must have been for their pleasure only.
Whereas ID is the claim that Nature cheats.
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