Posted on 07/03/2006 10:05:56 AM PDT by doc30
We humans customarily assume that our visual system sits atop a pinnacle of evolutionary success. It enables us to appreciate space in three dimensions, to detect objects from a distance and to move about safely. We are exquisitely able to recognize other individuals and to read their emotions from mere glimpses of their faces. In fact, we are such visual animals that we have difficulty imagining the sensory worlds of creatures whose capacities extend to other realms--a night-hunting bat, for example, that finds small insects by listening to the echoes of its own high-pitched call. Our knowledge of color vision is, quite naturally, based primarily on what humans see: researchers can easily perform experiments on cooperative human subjects to discover, say, what mixtures of colors look the same or different. Although scientists have obtained supporting information from a variety of other species by recording the firing of neurons, we remained unaware until the early 1970s that many vertebrates, mostly animals other than mammals, see colors in a part of the spectrum that is invisible to humans: the near ultraviolet. ...
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Trust me you would fit right in. I suggest anyone that thinks that atheists, hindus, buddists, blacks, hispanics or others aren't fit to be conservatives stop posting here and go where your wanted.
Ohhh your such a wit. Please beat me again. I deserve such scorn from your kind. :)
So, where do you get the psychotic delusion that I think that atheists, hindus, buddists, blacks, hispanics or others aren't fit to be conservatives?
You are the one who wants to boot others out of the conservative movement, not me.
If you want to raise a theological point, it might do you well to actually read the Bible. Your statement shows your theological ignorance.
Yes but you are defending those who confuse their religion with the conservative political movement. Seems to me you damn yourself by those you defend. I see you as the same as the New York Times. If you defend and support the radical islamics then you must be one or a fellow traveler.
I didn't defend anyone. I just asked you a question. You posted that you want to banish white Christians from the party and consign them to the darkness of the Left. I saught clarification. Your response was to call me a Nazi.
Seems to me you damn yourself by those you defend.
I defended no one. I merely pointed out your silliness.
I see you as the same as the New York Times.
You seem to know me well, for someone who knows nothing about me.
If you defend and support the radical islamics then you must be one or a fellow traveler.
So, all defense attorneys are guilty of the crimes of those they defend?
So you're saying we're not as God created us? That implies he made a mistake the first time. Rather than guess what you mean by biblical ignorance, I'll just repeat he made a dog superior to you, vitamin-C wise, if evolution be heresy.
Which will hopefully one day become unnecessary as people strenghthen their religious beliefs sufficiently to not feel threatened by science, and cease asking government to intervene.
And why could they not have been created as is? You know, like dodge has a magna and a Neon - similar only in that they were designed by the same company and for the same roads, but for different purposes.
The paint comes from the same supplier too.
No one can prove they weren't. But of course if evolution is not happening, things will die out with every change in climate. And of course, we can observe organisms adapting genetically to changes in environment.
That life changes and adapts is not unique to the theory of evolution.
A creator would also create life with the ability to 'change and adapt'.
The truth is, there is no evidence that uniquely supports an evolutionary model; therefore, you cannot say that evolution is a 'fact'. It is merely 'defined truth'.
That is, the definition of evolution has been carefully crafted to be consistent w/ the evidence. Unfortunately, this has produced a definition that is also consistent w/ a created biology that is adaptive and 'evolution' has lost any ability to be falsified wrt creation.
In fact, evolution has been *defined* to be consistent with a genome that is in decline. After all, a population that is accumulating deleterious genetic mutations is also 'changing'.
Adaptation, meanwhile, is merely a process of sorting existing information for that which best 'fits' one environment over another. Nothing inconsistent w/ creation there either.
A creator would also create life with the ability to 'change and adapt'.
Perhaps you don't understand that evolution has merely been 'defined' to be true and true believers like yourself are not able to understand that this same 'definition' has also made evolution consistent with a created bioligy that is in decline.
How can you pretend that one 'defined truth' is superior to another when there is no unique evidence?
There's plenty of evidence. When people can look at vestigal legs on a snake and still claim that it is not "proof" of evolution - then there is nothing that will ever prove it to them. What would your explanation of legs on a snake be??
I know someone who seriously believes the world is flat. All the photos of the earth from space will not convince him. To him they are simply optical illusions. I don't see much difference in him and those who look at evidence of evolution (like vestigal legs on a snake) and refuse to believe what they see, or explain it away with a lot of talk.
I suppose if God Almighty came down on a cloud of Glory and told creationists that He DID create evolution as a means of changing life forms - maybe THEN some of you would finally accept it, though I have my doubts.
Not to mention their rejection of modern medicine while wanting it to do everything possible to save the braindead is just staggeringly hypocritical.
Christians reject modern medicine?
Who knew?
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