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To: narby
Yep. You're right. God got it all wrong and really messed up with the Scriptures. He just doesn't know what He is talking about.

We should listen to the Darwinists instead. They have their own pet theories, none of which are provable and are constantly changing. They certainly know what they are talking about.

7 posted on 11/17/2004 7:39:21 PM PST by Gritty ("Bush's redneck America is a more reliable long-term bet than enlighted Europe-Mark Steyn)
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To: Gritty
Yep. You're right. God got it all wrong and really messed up with the Scriptures. He just doesn't know what He is talking about. We should listen to the Darwinists instead. They have their own pet theories, none of which are provable and are constantly changing. They certainly know what they are talking about.

And just how many scriptures teach about how God made life? Emphasis on the "how". Grand total, there can't be more than a few hundred words in Genesis about the beginning of the world. How definitive is that?

Combine this with the undeniable fact that there are dozens, perhaps hundreds of different religious denominations that follow the Bible. None of them can agree on exactly what the Bible says about a great many important things.

Of course they can't agree on Creation either. "Proof", if you're ready to accept it, that humans cannot know exactly what God is saying in the Bible. So you're so certain that Evolution isn't allowed in Genesis? I respectfully disagree.

The fact is that many denominations do believe Evolution is how "God did it".

This isn't a fight nearly so much between the faithful people and non-faithful, so much as it is a doctrinal fight like those over many other details of religious belief.

It's just that the danger is that if you listen to the Creationists who say that you must believe their way, or else you have believe that God doesn't exist at all. The sad fact is that some will choose the second. And that's not Evolution or Science's fault. That's the fault of stubborn Creationists and IDers who are being stupid by driving faithful people away from God.

Your criticism didn't touch on my point that believers are being driven away because of this unnecessary fight. I'll assume you agree with me about that.

11 posted on 11/17/2004 8:08:59 PM PST by narby
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To: Gritty
Yep. You're right. God got it all wrong and really messed up with the Scriptures.

Which god, which scriptures, which interpretation?

He just doesn't know what He is talking about.

Hey, don't talk about Huitzilopochtli that way...

We should listen to the Darwinists instead. They have their own pet theories,

...supported by vast amounts of evidence.

none of which are provable

Nothing in science is "provable". Science doesn't deal in "proofs". It deals in evidence, and provisionally accepting the theory that best fits the evidence. In biology, that theory is evolution.

and are constantly changing.

Only as needed to refine the theory to better fit all the evidence. Would you prefer that it *didn't*? Also, the theory hasn't changed *that* much (nor "constantly"). Many anti-evolutionsts are under the mistaken impression that the theory of evolution "changes" every time it adds new information to its "database". That's not the case. The *theory* usually remains unchanged, even when its store of information needs to be updated.

Just for grins, though, do feel free to describe for us the last time the theory of evolution actually needed to be "changed". You should be able to provide several examples, since you claim that this happens "constantly".

They certainly know what they are talking about.

Based on mountains of evidence, millions of tests, and 140+ years of examination, yes, they do.

93 posted on 11/18/2004 12:19:14 AM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Gritty

Evolution does not imply that the Scriptures are wrong. Modern science even allows for a literal reading of the Scriptures to be correct. If God used evolution as a tool to create all the life on earth, would that render the scriptures false? Would God still not have created everything?


106 posted on 11/18/2004 6:00:45 AM PST by stremba
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