Posted on 02/28/2002 6:35:58 PM PST by Heartlander
I’m tired of these atheists’ knocking on my door holding the Book of Darwin
The THEORY of evolution. Hey, Nice THEORY! No, really – a beautiful story about how man might have been created. The Darwin bible though has been interpreted by many to ‘soot’ their own beliefs. They preach this stuff as it were fact and leave out the most important word of any THEORY - the word ‘IF’.
I mean you never hear them say, “IF’ the Evolution of life on earth proceeded in two stages: chemical and biological. Life on earth must have developed from inorganic materials- what else was there for it to come from? The first stage in the development of life, therefore, was the production of a reproducing cell from materials at hand on the early earth. This process is called chemical evolution.... Once a living, reproducing system was present, the process of natural selection took over to produce the wide variety of life that exists today. This from the gospel of evolution.
They state this mumbo jumbo as if it were fact. They always leave out ‘IF’. I mean, it’s a darn THEORY isn’t it? Heck, they even ridicule those who believe otherwise. They hide behind this so called faith in Darwin. Although Darwin was just a prophet of ‘their’ science.
Hey, don’t get me wrong, I appreciate science. I even think that evolution is an interesting THEORY – but why should we preach about Darwin in our schools. I mean evolution is thoroughly compatible with religion-when the object of worship is evolution; and we must keep a separation between religion and state. It doesn’t say that in the Constitution, but hey, it sounds like a darn good idea!
Don’t get me wrong, some evolutionists are starting to understand Intelligent Design. But there is still a majority that thinks evolution has somehow disproved the existence of God. Wow, even their prophets Darwin and Nietzsche understood the dangers that posed.
I am an American and believe that everyone should worship as they chose, but keep your Darwin propaganda out of my child’s school and my country’s laws. It's like some kind of ACLU / 700 club.
Well, you musta flunked history. Public schools were pushed by Horace Mann, an ex-Calvanist turned Unitarian. However, Mann couldn't establish the public school system alone. He was aided in his quest for "uniformity" by a Protestant backlash against the Catholic immigration of the time. They were dead set against allowing Catholicism to flourish and therefore were eager to capture youths in a nonsectarianism that was a staple of evangelical Protestantism.
The public school system, hence, is not a product of athiests (too few of us to do anything like that, really.) It is the product of Protestantism.
Blessed are those who believe and have not seen..............it's called 'FAITH' buddy.....I take it you have no idea what that means......I pray you find the light before HE comes or you leave this world....
hunyb
So you have a vengeful god then? Too bad.
The Iliad is likewise preserved in its ancient purity. And as for predictions, every war has predictions of victory, on both sides. The winners were the ones who can then claim that their predictions were divinely inspired, but all we really know is that they won the war. And the descendants of Abraham are not quite as numerous as the sands on the beach. Not yet anyway. The re-establishment of Israel is a great historic oddity. I really don't know what to make of that one.
2. The Selucid devastation of Isreal is well documented in secular history.
3. The destruction of the temple in Jerusalem is also fairly well documented in secular history.
The New Testament canon, I believe, was codified at the Council of Nicea in the 4th Cen.
Not to worry; this thread is still young......
And these guilty by association tactics that they use against Christians… Falwell, Robertson, etc…
The Freerepublic conservative atheists are defending the President daily – the man is a Christian! Why not ridicule him and mock him as you do to other Christians?
The Freerepublic conservative atheists criticize the UCLU… hey, they are your allies… along with college professors who think that sex with animals is fine as long as you get their consent.
Who really are the hypocrites here?
I'm off to the chili cook-off... later
And God Bless!
The prophesy concerning the Selucids was a war the Isrealites LOST. One of the key differences in the prophesy's found in the Bible and most other prophecies is that they are brutally honest about the shortcomings of the Jews.
Concerning Isreal.....that's something to think about ain't it.
OK, so it wasn't that good of a joke, but I thought it was... ;~)
(No ridicule of anyone's beliefs was intended.)
Maybe because we teach the 'religion' of science in schools. Since it's just a pile of THEORIES in your eyes, do you also think that all basic science, biology, physics, chemistry, and zoology classes should be cancelled as well?
There are forces of good and evil at work in this world, why on earth would you choose evil?
Of course human scolars codifed the text, the only known writing by God Himself would be the 10 commandments housed in the Arc of the Covenant. All other writing must necessarily be by human hands.
Concerning who wrote the actual text of the Gospel, there is much historic analysis and debate, however, I don't believe any of the 12 Disciples were involved. Peter, of course, wrote letters and James did as well.
The council itself was called to separate those tracts which were undeniably true and accurate from those which didn't meet high standards of authenticity. The scholars that took on this awesome responsibilty were some of the finest minds of the day and had extensive knowledge as to the source and history of the tracts under discussion.
You shouldn't wonder that this codification process followed the events recorded by a couple of centuries if you consider that the church was persecuted for all that time up until Constantine the Great, again in the 4th century.
Well, it does, doesn't it? :-) It just left the stars at different times.
Now that I think of it, I recall that our oldest complete copy was discovered in Instanbul (or somewhere), and it isn't really that old (I don't remember how old). Before that, all we had were fragments. But the "recent" copy was in agreement with the ancient fragments (if I remember correctly). That's not difficult to believe because it was poetry, so it's difficult to change it around or the rhythm would be distorted.
As for win/lose prophesies, we always have prophesies on both sides. Look at the pundits in the US, always predicting that we're getting into "another Viet Nam." Such prophesies mean little, as we can always look back, after the fact, and find a conveniently "accurate" prophecy among all that were made.
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