Posted on 06/11/2007 2:09:09 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
Yeah, those of us given the faith to believe the Bible is true are just a bunch of ignorant hillbillies. I'm so glad we can count on smarter, wiser people to lead us into the future.</sarcasm>
Yes it is. And while creationists have managed to dig up a tiny handful of scientists who say they don't believe in evolution, virtually all of them refuse to believe in evolution because they are evangelical Christians or Islamic fundamentalists, and their religion requires them to reject evolution regardless of the evidence. What you don't find are scientists who dispute evolution on what are primarily scientific (as opposed to theological) grounds.
Evolution is hardly the definition of “modernizing”.
Humanity will turn back to it’s proper place in God’s creation, or will continue it’s slide into anarchy and Chaos.
There is no policy of government that SHOULD in any way be effected by one’s personal belief in the origin of man. However, to the degree that one might suggest that what a person believes should be judged in order to take a measure of the person, my response would be to reject those who reject God and his plan and purpose.
Fortunately for the athiests, agnostics, and other incorrect-believers, that is not what I, or a majority of people, use to judge our fellow man when it comes to choosing a representative, or making a purchase, or hiring for service.
So my warning is, don’t push it. We are a great nation because the believing community has determined that allowing plurality of beliefs is better for our own belief system. The more uninformed bigots push to minimize or restrict the correct view of the world by dismissing it as non-modern, or backwards, the more those with the true belief will have to assert their rights and place in our society.
I like the Civil War anecdote about two Confederate soldiers talking about the new-fangled theory of evolution:
“Maybe you came from an ape. Maybe I came from an ape. But General Lee didn’t come from no ape.”
Utter balderdash
The party is losing because it has abandoned the core conservative principles and is currently corrupt. The party will win again when it figuires out how to be conservative again
So, I'm not a modern man because I don't believe in evolution?
Given the choice between believing a theory that I evolved from a lower life form over millions of years or I was created in the likeness of a loving all powerful creator.
It's a simple choice.
Gallup would really be shocked to hear how many people doubt the theory of man made global warming...
You’re absolutely correct about one thing. Those without the analytical ability to reject flat earth-like theories (such as macroevolution) should be nowhere near public office.
That's your right.
It’s absurd on its face and there is NO evidence to support it - just wild hypothesis...
False. The fact that you ignore the evidence will not make it disappear. Evolution is a well-supported scientific theory whether you say yea or nay.
...since they were NOT there.
That is not a requirement for verification in science. Implying that it is only makes you sound ignorant of how science works.
As a Christian (preacher’s son) and a conservative I have no problem with Evolution per say, I would only ad the caveat that I believe in directed evolution.
Anyone attempting to read Genesis as a literal word for word exact transpiring of events must some how reconcile Revelations as also being literal when clearly it uses alliteration to explain future events.
I can not understand why some Christians seem to understand parables and mans trouble interpreting witnessed events of God’s awesome power and yet somehow believe that Genesis HAS to be taken as the literal truth and not mans understanding of what God told him, told in a way that a man at that time period could and would understand.
Do we as Christians interpret theses passages as the literal truth or only one mans ability to attempt to describe what God had revealed to him:
II Kings 2:11 “And it came to pass, as they still went on talked, that, behold, there appeared a CHARIOT OF FIRE, and HORSES OF FIRE, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Ezekiel 1:19 “And when the living creatures went, the
wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.”.
You mean like the strategy we used in the last election? You are the problem not the solution.
It is a basic tenet of Christianity that God created the world and Man.
If you present a Christian with a choice between limiting God to a role as "guiding hand" versus a choice specifically mentioning "creation", you are going to drive a lot of people to answer "creation", even if they would, in general, disagree with the 10,000 year silliness.
It works for evolutionists. Until it’s so clear they got it wrong, and then they just re-write things to make it all better.
Meanwhile, God who is in heaven has his hand on the experiments, the discoveries, the “evidence”, and apparently has some sense of humor.
If you don’t understand how evolution occurred, you’re not very well educated.
Yulp, jest taint getting it.
You could be right, but what makes you say that? Did we do a freeper poll or something, and I missed it?
I was somewhat under the impression that a lot of the rabid intolerant evolutionists left us for “another site”, maybe darwin central.
By rabid intolerant evolutionists, I mean people who would assert that anybody who doesn’t believe the way they do are backwards and should be shunned and eliminated from political consideration.
And so you're saying evolution has been verified by observable process that one species has totally evolved into another...
Which new species have been witnessed being formed by this evolutionary process?
How long does one species take to totally form into another?
Please don’t equate evolution with real science. You’re doing a disservice to all the brilliant minds who dedicated their lives to the advancement of humankind.
God did not start with an ameoba or reptile in making man. So for us believers of God how can we believe the tenets of evolution concerning the origins of mankind.
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