A Spoonful of Jesus Helps Darwin Go Down (What the Evos really think of Christian compromise)

WEIT ^ | Jerry Coyne, Ph.D.

[Soothesayer]

I still get confused about scripture. You told me what I wanted to hear so I’ll agree with you.

[editor-surveyor]

"...which is apparently for humans to live in caves and die early..."

The first humans lived for hundreds of years, and would have been immortal, except for their disobedience of God. - It's the 'scientific' ones that appear to enjoy the caves and short lives.

[editor-surveyor]

God brought forth the life. The waters, and the land, only provided a place for it to happen.

[Moonman62]

an unsupportable assertion at best, since there is no evidence that any living thing has ever evolved into anything other than exactly what it's parentage was.

Why do living things have to reproduce naturally? Why doesn't God create new living things as needed?

[CottShop]

God breathed life into hte nostrils of Adam and Eve- so according to theistic evolution, Adam and Eve apparently were dead matter until God did this act, either that or God’s word ‘didn’t really mean’ God breathed life into their completed bodily forms- There’s plenty of God’s word that Theistic evolutionsits MUST just compeltely throw out hte window in order to get their impossible model of evolution to ‘comply with scriptures’ lol

[reaganaut]

Wow. So you are TELLING ME what I do and do not have faith in? You sir do not live in my mind.

FWIW, you are reading something into my post that I did not put there.

[allmendream]

God gave the command. At God’s command the waters and the land brought forth life.

What was the nature of God’s command, and how did the waters and land bring forth life?

At God’s command stars form. Stars form by gravity and nuclear fusion. Gravity and nuclear fusion are the means God uses to create stars.

[reaganaut]

ROFL. Good idea.

[GodGunsGuts]

You said you don’t know how God created, followed with a declaration of your faith in a literal reading of the Bible when it comes to faith and doctrine. I merely pointed that you don’t have faith in God’s creation account in Genesis because you still hold out the possibility that He used Darwinian evolution...even though God has specifically told you in the very first chapter of the very first book of the Bible that He created the Universe and everthing in it in six days.

[GourmetDan]

"By seeking union with religious people, and emphasizing that there is no genuine conflict between faith and science, they are making accommodationism not just a tactical position, but a philosophical one."

What's one more philosophical position once you have accepted philosophical naturalism?

No wonder science has gotten lost...

[CottShop]

No you told us what you bleeive and don’t beleive— trust us, we’re not tryign to ‘live inside your mind’

[varmintman]

What would you want to “replace” naziism with?

[tacticalogic]

What would you want to “replace” naziism with?

Democracy and capitalism.

[GodGunsGuts]

Amen, Sir Keith!!!

[varmintman]

Don’t get me wrong, I do not RECOMMEND rastafari or Voodoo to anybody, I recommend Christianity. What I DO say is that rastafari or voodoo would be an improvement over evolutionism.

[Bosh Flimshaw]

Science is nothing but human impatience with God's plan.

At least you're admitting that your problem isn't really with the theory of evolution, but with the concept of science in general.

[Fichori]

“I got a taste of a few of those so-called Christians on the last couple of threads.” [excerpt]

¶ This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all [men], as theirs also was.

2nd Timothy 3:1-9

[GodGunsGuts]

2 Timothy 3:1-9 perfectly summarizes what I think we are dealing with here. Thank you!

[Fichori]

“3. God’s time is not our time.” [excerpt]

God is outside of time.

It would be accurate to say that God's timing is not our timing.

To assert that God is subject to a time constraint is to, essentially, deny that his is God.

[editor-surveyor]

I don’t have any problem with science, but it is worth while to note that we wouldn’t have the curiousity that drives us if we were patient with our Lord, and his well revealed plan.