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To: celmak

Look, you asked a question: “Has the Bible ever changed?” I replied, quite accurately, that yes, it quite certainly had. I even pointed out HOW it had changed; none of which has been disputed - nor CAN it be disputed, since it’s acknowledged as fact by Christians, non-Christians, anyone who’s familiar with the history.

I still don’t really know what your point was, although I suspect it’s the typical fallacy that seems to be pushed a lot. Every time we find that some aspect of our understanding of evolution has been a bit too simplistic (in this case it was simply the assumption that genetic nature is fixed at birth rather than somewhat flexible with genetic changes gained during life passable to succeeding generations), a bunch of people jump up and say, “SEE! SEE! THAT MEANS THE WHOLE THING IS FALSE!”

But it means no such thing. Scientists (and the general population) are not abandoning evolution. Over time, even as our understanding of the process becomes more complex, the opposite is happening.

It’s pretty silly, really. It’s kind of like standing up and proclaiming “Henry Ford was WRONG! The Wright brothers were WRONG!” simply because we now have better automobiles than the much more rudimentary versions they produced.


42 posted on 03/20/2010 4:52:12 PM PDT by john in springfield
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To: john in springfield
The analogy I like to use when creationists try to point out a few hoax finds as an attempt to discredit all fossil finds is that by that logic, if you ever find a hundred dollar bill that is counterfeit; you may as well throw out ALL your hundred dollar bills.
95 posted on 03/23/2010 11:55:10 AM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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