Posted on 02/14/2007 2:07:15 PM PST by Tim Long
It would probably make your head explode to learn that millions of devout Christians accept evolution as a valid scientific theory.
Yes. The Rain is either natural (condensed water vapor), or supernatural (God made the rain). It can't possibly be both.
Are you an idiot? How can you belive the garbage you post? Is your world-view so fragile?
Based upon your scholarly work and careful study of evolutionary theory, could you kindly point out the part that suggests that modern apes (or monkeys as you call them) should be expected to evolve into humans? Nothing I have read or been taught has ever suggested that creatures leave successful niches unless there is a compelling force or untapped opportunity waiting to be exploited.
Oh, so you believe only Protestants go to Heaven then and all Catholics are going to Hell or am I wrong?
There is intolerance of religion right here on FR, in most creation vs. evolution threads. There's one running right now. There are radical atheists who post on FR, saying things completely indistinguishable from what you would find on a leftist forum, and making statements just like those cited in the OP.
I've posted Dawkins' quotes in the past. Please don't make me look them up again. :>)
Go to the source web site, www.darwinday.org, and show me where the anti-religious talk is. I'll be waiting for some kind of trash mouth writing like the two blogers John Edwards hired.
I'll be waiting.
"I am intolerant of intolerance, and it's the creationists attacking science who are on the wrong side of this issue."
So does that make you intolerant? Sounds like it to me.
It's almost as good as "Darwin’s Greatest Discovery: Design without a Designer". By definition, this quote completely contradicts itself. A Design, by definition, requires a Designer.
***Then came the "creation science" movement in the 1980's, and my respect for Christianity started downhill.***
You made your choice live with it. What do you care about the church after letting your Christianity go down hill.
Who cares what Dawkins said? I disagree with Dawkins and will regardless of how many quotes of his you post.
I have to admit that I actively try hard not to disbelieve Christianity because of the deceitful "creation science" charlatans. I used to take their claims on trust alone...but when I started to look at them as a scientist--as critically as I examined other scientific claims--I realized how absurdly poor they were. I also realized there were obvious attempts to deceive non-scientists into believing the scientific evidence supported creationism. It seemed to conflict badly with the proscription of "bearing false witness."
Do the lies of creation scientists mean that creationism is false? No. But there sure isn't much evidence for it when you strip away the lies. :-(
No. Are you? I'm not the one who believes an impossible religious view presented as science.
I happen to be a practicing Catholic and take it as a truth that Jesus, as a man, had the same common ancestry through evolution that we all have. Yes, the human Jesus was a product of evolution just as we all are.
So Republicans and conservatives don't want our votes. Ok. Fine.
The sad thing is that this junk was published in National Review. I didn't know they were a religious doctrine magazine.
"When conservatives chase away people who are scientifically literate, do you think there will be enough creationists left to win a vote?"
Most of the dogmatic, fanatic evolutionists and people who bad-mouth Christians are on the Demonrat-leftist-Marxist side of the fence anyway.
So creationists don't like Catholic voters either.
It will surely be President Hillary! then.
Jesus help...I'm off this thread...nothing but a bunch of hee-haws here....
Dawkins is a leading evolutionist, and he says that rational people realize that if a natural process like evolution is true, then there is no need for any God.
He boils it down to them versus us. If it's "A," then it cannot be "B."
I tend to agree with him. The God that emerges from theistic evolution is hardly a god, and is more a Star Trek master race.
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