Posted on 01/23/2006 4:31:58 PM PST by PatrickHenry
Could you please document this claim?
Whereas on FR, comparing Clinton to a chimp passes for intellectual comment.
"I was made in the image of God."
So, what does God look like? Like a Chinese person or a British? Perhaps Arabic, or simply a South American Indian?
Personally, I think ancient people wanted closeness to their gods. Ancient Hebrews, similary, thought God looked like them, hence the story of the man created in God's image, from soil. Christians adopted that story and Muslims did, too. But, Muslims modified to say that God did not have an image and any attempt at saying what God looks like was blasphemy. Today's Muslims believe that man was created from mud, but not in Allah's image(who does not have an image).
I don't think they teach men created from mud in Saudi Arabian universities. In some cases, they do not literally interpret their holy scriptures.
I hate your incessant use of photos in your posts. It's obnoxious, unecessary, unfunny, and keeps my page-load rate below instantaneous.
after checking out your previous posts, I've come to learn it ain't gonna stop.
Just had to get that off my chest. Cheers.
The discussion here is about evolution. Christianity is a completely unrelated topic. Why are you trying to change the subject?
I do believe the question is one of being a close relative not an identical twin. We are indeed the smarter cousin but the difference is one of contingency, we happened to become upright, freeing our hands for all sorts of manipulation, large brained and had our palate change enough to facilitate language. The chimps may have been upright walkers at the point of human/chimp separation but they lost that and never developed the palate and brains we did.
Even so, chimps are capable of learning, communicating and using tools. The division between chimps and humans is one of degree not essence.
In any case the evidence of transitional fossils, morphological similarity and molecular evidence trumps your - we aren't related because we are a little better than them.
I thought of that, but it was getting too long even without that stuff. I kinda decided to say what it IS, and deal with the goofy stuff another time. I donno. I'm still mulling it over.
You wouldn't get it.
The chimps also have 5 fingers! I never knew that. God must have 5 fingers, too.
"Look shweetheart, I don't even know what the cowbell thing means or how it got shtarted, so don't blame me!"
He said we "could" be, not that it is known that we are. Leave it to a creationist to play semantic games rather than address reality.
Now, on with nailing the CRIDer's standard logical fallacies. (eyes closed -- strawman, begging the question, post hoc in the first 50).
Talk to yourself - always stimulating.
One suggestion: near the end, deal with the splitting of the herd. One part of the herd goes on the north side of the mountain (river, continent, etc.) while the other part goes to the south side. One part of the herd stays in the forest while the other part carefully explores the spreading grasslands.
This gives changed (and changing) conditions which can in turn speed up adaptation.
Your browser probably has a "block images from this site" control. You may find it by right-clicking on the image. I've used it for every one of that spammer's posts. Thread loads fast, and spam-free.
You conclude your post with the assertion that "evolution is a theory". However, if we examine your definition of theory:
(1)A well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; and
(2)An organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena
We find that evolution satisfies neither of these. It is not a well substantiated explanation of the appearance of man on earth and it explains nothing in repeatable experimental experimental terms.
If it were the explanation, WHERE THEN ARE THE TRANSITIONAL FORMS?? Why are there no transitional life forms to point to? Did the forces of evolution exist only long enough to evolve man and then suddenly halt? Give me a break. The theory (?) of evolution is nothing but a scam.
What is it in the evolutionist psyche that enables you to ignore this fundamental flaw in your bogus theory...to live in denial of the fact that your bogus theory is full of holes and phoney??
Your ship is thinking pal. No matter how hard you try to plug the leaks with kneejerk bandaid explanations for your many failures, you're going under just like Kennedy at Chappaquidick...gurgle! gurgle! gurgle!
And indeed I did not just make this up, the evidence is there for those who dare to look.
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