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To: YHAOS; metmom
I don’t know of any Christian who does not, as an article of faith, believe that God created Mankind and the Universe (the heavens and the earth). Do you?

And it's just as non-sensical to assert that creation means: "an opposition to evolution". And create means exactly what it says in the webster's dictionary:

"create: make, or bring about". And does one find "evolve" as the opposite of create here? No.

And meanwhile, can any evo give us a definition of evolution?

Nope. It's like nailing jello to a wall. What a crock!

292 posted on 06/15/2009 8:56:50 PM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for g!ood men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: tpanther
And it's just as non-sensical to assert that creation means: "an opposition to evolution"

Some few dictionaries do so assert. Most do not. You may be thinking of one young fellow who took “opposed to evolution” as part of a definition rather than an illustrative offering as a different theory of how existence began to aid in understanding the definition. He has since forgotten the incident and is back at the same stand selling the same old snake oil.

And meanwhile, can any evo give us a definition of evolution?

Like Topsy, it just growed?

297 posted on 06/15/2009 10:39:06 PM PDT by YHAOS
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To: tpanther
And it's just as non-sensical to assert that creation means: "an opposition to evolution"

No one asserted that. The assertion is that "creationism" implies an opposition to evolution. If you don't think it should, I'd take it up with the self-described creationists. If they continue to describe their anti-evolution position as "creationism," I'll continue to use the word that way too.

And meanwhile, can any evo give us a definition of evolution?

The last sentence of this one is what I've read most often here on FR. Is there some reason you think "evos" don't agree on it?

evolution: Darwin defined this term as "descent with modification." It is the change in a lineage of populations between generations. In general terms, biological evolution is the process of change by which new species develop from preexisting species over time; in genetic terms, evolution can be defined as any change in the frequency of alleles in populations of organisms from generation to generation.

300 posted on 06/16/2009 10:19:57 AM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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