Posted on 03/13/2002 4:47:26 AM PST by JediGirl
Some things just follow logically. If evolution does not exist as a process, then the only source of design is God. Aliens of whatever could not have evolved, so even if were were designed by other creatures, they had to be designed by God.
Since evolution doesn't exist, nothing has undergone macro change since the original. If changes have occurred, the changes were made by God.
What are the alternatives?
Darwin blinds you.
You: A good description of life without Intelligent Design or purpose.
Actually, whether we are designed or evolved, our lives seem the same to us. Either way, I'm still me, you're still you.
"Dry, abstract?" Have you ever been an atheist or agnostic? (OK, I've never been the first one, myself.)
Obladi! Obladah! Life goes on, Brah!
I've never repeated a day.
[Howard Cosell voice]
I'm never wrong. I once thought I had been, but I was mistaken.
Although, occasionally, I would have liked "overs".
Enlighten me. Or at least respond to what I said.
And makes you cryptic. Flighty "pooh-poohs" such as this might have impressed the co-eds in college, but they add nothing to the discussion. If you know to what he is blinded, please do inform us.
But that tells you nothing but nothing about whether dinosaurs had mammary glands. When you go the evolutionary model, OTOH, mamms on a T. rex are pronounced spectacularly improbable.
Basic bottom line, the Grand Canyon was blasted straight out of the rock by a fantastic electrical discharge between this planet and some other cosmic body, a comet, asteroid, or another planet, and most of the material from the canyon was either vaporized or blasted straight out into space. Real interesting spectacle, but you'd have wanted to watch from a considerable distance...
I think I've seen everything now. A "fantastic electrical discharge"??? ROFL! I believe you've violated several laws of physics alone with that statement, but there are many better qualified than I to answer this claim. (RA, can you help here? Bode's Law, Roche's Limit?)
What about all the talus and detritus strewn around the canyon at rather inconvenient places such as alluvial fans and the like? I would think if the canyon was created by a massive electrical discharge that all that stuff would be gone, vanished, poof! And what about the evidence for massive lava flows from the Kaibab Volcanic Field? There's pretty solid evidence to suggest that at least a dozen or so of these flows actually dammed the Colorado River for periods of time before being breached and themselves being washed away?
I'll tell you truthfully, I have more respect for the Creationists attempting to fit the Grand Canyon into a great flood scenario than this electrical discharge nonsense. At least they have evidence for water being the primary mechanism of erosion.
Question is, would they have excited Mr. T.?
No, not really – but I was for quite a while what I guess I would consider gnostic. I did the whole soul searching thing and studied different religions (including atheism). Thought I had all the spiritual answers and lived like I knew nothing about them – if you know what I mean…
I did respond, only in a fashion unfamiliar to you. It is not either/or. Evolution is apparently not the question. If you carefully read through these threads you will find something called micro-evolution. Nebullis has even pointed out that this distinct variant name was coined by the "evolutionists"(for lack of a more precise indicator). It seems as if most people on these threads adhere to this variation. Now the question is what are the other variants of evolution? If the label Intelligent Design chaps your hide maybe Cellular Engineering won't. I'll let you think some more.
And allows you to think and come to your own conclusions.
1. finding the correct size of the gene for the faculty which needs to be developed.What is the correct size of a gene? Are you sure there's no slop factor in coding for a protein? What if there's more than one way to get it right? What if there's more than one "right" protein?. . .
7. for the above to have happened over 20,000 times in man and its ancestors and a similar amount of times in the millions of diferent species, genus, orders, and phylums of known dead and alive species which have populated the earth.
With those short little arms how could she latch......Never mind.
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