Posted on 03/22/2019 3:19:15 AM PDT by spirited irish
"Darwinism came at the desired time; Darwin's theory that man is the descendant of a lower animal destroyed the entire foundation of Christian dogma." (Anton Pannekoek, "Marxism and Darwinism," translated by Nathan Weiser)
As Pannekoek affirms, Darwin's mythological miracle-producing life and change-making evolutionary energy has destroyed the entire foundation of Christian theism. In supplanting Genesis 1-11, it has also destroyed biblical infallibility, transcendent moral law, sexual ethics, the gospel claims of Jesus Christ, and imago Dei, the source of man's personhood and innate dignity.
In destroying the foundations of Christianity Darwinism has also destroyed the foundations of our Constitutional Republic, and by extension, America's traditional culture.
(Excerpt) Read more at renewamerica.com ...
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BioLogos invites the church and the world
to see the harmony between science and biblical faith
as we present an evolutionary understanding of God’s creation.
The Origin of Species
by Means of Natural Selection,
or the
Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
Um... Darwin’s theory describes biology, and does not mention religion at all.
Also, the constant comparison of evolutionary theory to religion (as evidenced by the terminology used to describe it) says more about the writer’s feelings about religion than it says about evolutionary theory. You cannot illustrate how debased a concept is by comparing it to a concept you claim to revere—unless you really do not revere the concept.
Also, I must point out that a theory in the scientific world is a framework that ties together the known facts and allows for the formulation of testable hypotheses. In science, a theory is the highest level of reliability. Theories frequently are refined and gain in complexity as new data comes along. The theory of evolution has undergone multiple refinements since Darwin and Lamarck first proposed alternate versions in the 1800s to describe a phenomenon known since at least ancient Greece. Darwin’s version was quickly recognized as being more descriptive of the process, although with current molecular techniques, we are finding out that Lamarck was not completely wrong.
This is ---NOT---the Creator God Who spoke (John 1) all things into existence ex nihilism (from nothing) but a deity very much akin to the god of Joseph Smith.
Joseph Smith taught that matter is eternal and the Mormon God had no power to create out of nothing but merely reorganized already present elements, which have no beginning or end and cannot be destroyed:
"Since Mormons believe that the elements are eternal, it follows that they deny the ex nihilo creation." (Encyclopedia of Mormonism 1:400).
From this it follows that a mere man can become God, as the great Mormon prophet Joseph Smith explains:
"It is necessary we should understand the character and being of God and how he came to be so; for I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and suppose that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see. and that he was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ himself did... Here then, is eternal life – to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and to be kings and priest to God, the same as all Gods have done before you, namely by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one. . . . (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 345-47)
Since Darwinism cannot account for 'life' it can have nothing to say about biology, which is why many materialists are supporting the idea of extraterrestrials in a vain hope that they brought life to this planet. Certainly, this was the hope of C. Arthur Clarke in his book, Childhood's End.
Anything to oust God from our lives, our history, and our future.
The loony libs don’t believe in Intelligent Design, and they don’t believe the Designer has full control over climate. They make themselves out to be smarter, and more powerful, than God.
Complete blasphemy, and won’t they be surprised one day?
The answer to your question depends on whether God (the Word of John 1) spoke, and is therefore the Way, Truth, and Life.
If He spoke, then yes, you must limit your understanding to what He revealed to Moses about creation.
Yes they will, unless they repent.
BioLogos presents the Church with a ‘god’ that cannot speak,
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That’s not what I’ve read on their website.
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kimball/171028
If on the BioLogos website you’ve read something about a god that speaks please post a link to the article. Nevertheless, the conceptions of a god that uses evolution is -—NOT-—the Holy Triune God Who exists outside of the time/space dimension in the 3rd heaven but rather a god within time, an essential element of evolution recipe..
Why don’t you go on the forums at Biologos to find out for yourself. You can even ask questions if you like.
It's up to the neo-Lamarckians to prove that DNA rewrites ARE transmitted down to future generations, rather than being erased - and research has shown that about 1% do escape imprinting, so...yes, in a large enough population, some of that new code is making it into future generations, and if the new code is beneficial to the species, or better suited to the environment, well then, that's where the survival of the fittest part takes over.
Who would have thought that the theories of Jean-Baptiste and Charles were joined at the hip?
I find that Biologos does a better job of incorporating well established observations such as those from comparative genomics. People should approach either site with skepticism and decide for themselves.
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