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Posted on 08/31/2006 7:42:01 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
More adults in the United States believe the theory of evolution is correct, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. 51 per cent of respondents think that humans and other living things evolved over time, while 42 per cent say they existed in their present form since the beginning of time.
Charles Darwin’s "The Origin of Species" was first published in 1859. The book details the British naturalist’s theory that all organisms gradually evolve through the process of natural selection. Darwin’s views were antagonistic to creationism, the belief that a more powerful being or a deity created life.
In the United States, the debate on the topic accelerated after the 1925 Scopes trial, which tested a law that banned the teaching of evolution in Tennessee public schools. In 2004, Georgia’s Cobb County was at the centre of a controversy on whether science textbooks that explain evolutionary theory should include disclaimer stickers.
The theory of intelligent design suggests certain biological mechanisms are too complex to have developed without the involvement of a powerful force or intelligent being.
Last month, Austrian cardinal Christoph Schoenborn said the two views are not necessarily incompatible, declaring, "There is no conflict between science and religion, but a debate between a materialist interpretation of the results of science and a metaphysical philosophical interpretation. (...) The possibility that the Creator used evolution as a tool is completely acceptable for the Catholic faith."
Polling Data
Some people think that humans and other living things evolved over time. Others think that humans and other living things existed in their present form since the beginning of time. Which of these comes closest to your view?
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Jul. 2006 |
Jul. 2005 |
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Evolved over time |
51% |
48% |
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Existed in their present form |
42% |
42% |
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Don’t know / Refused |
7% |
10% |
Source: Pew Research Center for the People and the Press Methodology: Telephone interviews with 2,003 American adults, conducted from Jul. 6 to Jul. 19, 2006. Margin of error is 3 per cent.
You appear to be a mentally defective racist with a scat fetish.
Well and good. Just be aware you can pick up all sorts of diseases that way. I am a libertarian, so I will not condemn your lifestyle, but you should be aware that in the unlikely event anyone cares about you, it will distress them.
The traditional way of defining 'eternity' is as time flowing but never flowing out. When you write about having your behaviors all recorded before you do them, you are conceiving of time flowing from your present into some future present, thus the future present omniscient one views back to the current present and every moment in between and records the moment by moment (as it were) intervals.
Try this notion: present is a variable expression of dimension time and eternity is the constant present without a past or future to flow from or to. An omnipresent deity has access to past, present, and future time as you have access to linear, planar and volumetric space. You, existing in the constant present tense but perceiving only events that have already occurred, would not have access to actual present. If your entire lifetime in the body is lived in the present receiving only information from future not from the universe at the exact present of your existence, from a future time perspective your entire lifetime is as a single event, not something flowing. Free will is a phenomenon you perceive to be in force as if your lifetime is flowing, whereas your free will is an instantaneous phenomenon occurring in present time which is invariant.
The multiverse approach to this concept would declare that at every choice you make in life, a new pathway is branched off for temporal flow. I don't buy that, but it would probably make sense to you in order to maintain the illusion of freedom to choose at every instance since you prefer to believe time is flowing.
There is a problem with the way we define time presently, as evidenced in the problem of entanglement, where two or more particles may be separated by vast distances yet when one is acted upon, instantly the entangled partner is effected ... this is classic sharing of a moment regardless of spatial separation, thus time is not as we have defined it as flowing. The fact that an electron can be its own interference pattern partner also hints that time is not as classically defined or characterized.
Wonder how many of those same people believe America is a democracy instead of a republic.. No doubt most all of them..
Wonder how many of those same people believe America is a democracy instead of a republic.. No doubt most all of them..
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Why? Because the government schools have deliberately taught them that.
Hi guys, did anything interesting happen here since my placemarker?
Not much. Just a lesson in internet etiquette ...
I don't see how it's not your free choice. Does someone else force you to make a decision? No. Therefore: free choice.
Not so...
Genesis 3
1. Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, `You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
2. The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
3. but God did say, `You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.'"
4. "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman.
5. "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Satan tempted her with 'being like GOD'. That is sure NOT 'carnality'!
Satan can only do this - "Did God really say..." - create doubt. Everything we do, against GOD, is because of doubt.
What is unbelief, but doubt.
NIV Genesis 6:1-8
1. When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,
2. the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
3. Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal ; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
4. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and hadchildren by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
I'd say, "Changed".
Why 'downgrade' Pluto?
'Cause OTHER things in our 'system' are as big, or bigger, and they didn't want to ADD 'planets'!
(Can you imagine the uproar?)
"Only GOD can create a PLANET!!!"
NIV Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."NIV Genesis 3:22
And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."
This would be COOL!
I always like learning how we got to where we are today.
"Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
TEACH a man to fish, and he eats forever."
Our local TV weatherman makes 'predictions', but I've NEVER seen him doing a raindance! ;^)
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