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To: metmom; broncobilly
Well, if God's thoughts are not man's thoughts, then man's thoughts about evolution are wrong cause God told us in Genesis that He spoke creation into existence.

How can you derive from the Bible the notion that evolution does not exist? The Bible does not say how God created plants and animals. The closest it comes are when it says "created after its own kind." What does that mean? Species? Genus? Order?

I'm sorry, but I think you're reading things into the Bible that just aren't there.


221 posted on 03/21/2009 11:12:58 AM PDT by DallasMike
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To: DallasMike

I see. God’s call for a little bit of humility, admitting you don’t know it all, is for the other guy, not you.


231 posted on 03/21/2009 11:45:35 AM PDT by broncobilly
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To: DallasMike
The closest it comes are when it says "created after its own kind." What does that mean? Species? Genus? Order?

Linnaeus' term for the Biblical kind was genera.

233 posted on 03/21/2009 11:53:03 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: DallasMike

While the specifics of how aren’t addressed, it does give the materials used, dust of the earth being one. It was used first to create the animals and in Gen 2:7 it specifically says that God formed man from the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.

As far as kinds, even today, when someone asks what kind of animal something is, the answer usually refers as far back as to order or family, as in, it’s the cat family, primates, or Rodentia, for example.

Considering that many animals are now found to be able to breed further back than species, to the genus level at least, and that the reason is mostly preference, it does lend to the classifications in Scripture being on the family or order scale.

What do you suppose would be the result if a creature were created that contained all the DNA for all the variations of the kind with no mutations yet existing? What do you think would happen if those animals became isolated from each other? Would it not be possible that, depending on conditions, certain characteristics could be lost, allowing others to be expressed? If different characteristics were lost in the different groups, then they would LOOK different, would they not?

Some time ago, a couple years IIRC, an evo made a comment to the effect that of the big cats, their skeletons were all identical and that the only reason that we know now that they are different species is because we can see them. Which made me wonder if they were really different species at all. If they are skeletally identical, why label them different species based on size or fur patterns? You might as well consider the different categories of human different species based on skin color, hair type, or size.


353 posted on 03/21/2009 7:44:11 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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