Posted on 05/24/2006 2:21:50 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
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A lot of conservatives have no problem with evolutionary theory. I have no idea what the percentage is, but it certainly is not small.
It's god is government.
This has already been done. :)
Just one guess is allowed!
You obviously like Coulter a lot. She is amusing and sometimes funny but I don't see how anyone could take her seriously. She is too over the top for me.
It really depends on what you mean by conservative...and I'll acknowledge that a percentage do believe in evolution just like they would a religion...we witnessed that here at FR on my other thread regarding Coulter's book. I was unable to get a detailed account of how one species evolves into an entirely new, more complex, and different species just like the ultimate conception that life began like Frankenstein...an body of water that they call primodial soup with amino acids...a little bit of lightinging...and poof, a single cell organism.
I don't see how you can't take her seriously unless you prefer more dull, consesus-orientated party politics.
I'm sure this will turn into a monster thread debating evolutionary theory, but all I'm saying is that many conservatives accept evolution.
Coulter and others lose me when she brands my acceptance of evolutionary theory as a denial of God.
A lot of conservatives have no problem with evolutionary theory. I have no idea what the percentage is, but it certainly is not small.
>>I was unable to get a detailed account of how one species evolves into an entirely new, more complex, and different species
Natural selection. Heritable mutation occurs that is advantageous, and gets passed on more readily than the rest of the population.
>>...an body of water that they call primodial soup with amino acids...a little bit of lightinging...and poof, a single cell organism.
Room for miracles there, no doubt. But Bryson covers the current state of science well on that issue (and many others - I highly recommend the book) in "A Short History of Nearly Everything."
Macro-evolution, the concept that one species can evolve into a higher and more complex species, is not "reconcilable" with Judaism or Christianity. You either believe God created earth and man or you believe that lightning struck a primoridal soup and defied biogenesis by creating life from non-living matter...the single cell organism that would go onto to "evolve" into multi-cellular organism that would after millions of years produce man. I'm sorry, but you can't have it both ways.
Okay, I'll entertain, explain to me, specifically with elaboration, the process that takes places within a species, that produces a new, and entirely different species more complex than it's own.
You mean, room for imagination..
Why? Why couln't a being as all powerful as the Judeo/Christian God use a natural process like evolution?
So what in this new thread provides more information than the previous one?
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