Well in that case, you vote wrong.
I hate to dissuade you from delusions of grandeur - but you aren't the final arbiter.
I think it's funny that you barge into this thread whining about how the whole FR debate lacks substance, and then you proceed to do your best to lower the debate even more.
Glad to provide you with some merriment then.
You missed my point -- its not that these Crevo/Evo threads lack substance, its that after burning a load of calories - you end up in the same place.
You are not going to convince me, and I am not going to convince you.
I'd say that's true of everyone else on this thread.
The reason is because we are talking about a unique event that cannot be reproduced in the laboratory. Be it ex nihilo creation by the Creator or a billion year process that required strange 'punctuated equilibrium' (or happy monster mutation) events (or whatever is the latest rage in the Macroevolutionist's world)- neither of these models are provable.
So why did I bother to drop in on this thread?
That's a good question; but the individual to whom I addressed my post reminded me a bit of myself from years back: a wannabe Christian, but also wanting to straddle the fence of what was popularly believed by man - and therefore taking bits out of the Bible that I liked, and claiming the rest that I didn't like was due to man's corruption...In other words - buying into the old lie that 'ye can be as gods', and disregarding the fact that there IS one God - and not considering what that fact actually means.
Casting seeds on stony ground, or good soil? Who knows...
You're an odd one.
Why thank you. Although I prefer the word 'peculiar' (1 Peter 2:9).
That's just not true. There are lots of things we can prove and disprove without being able to replicate them in a lab. Surely, even you wouldn't dismiss astronomy as hokum because we can't get a star into a bottle. In fact, evolution is tested on a daily basis. Scientists, for example, can use the theory of evolution to make predictions about where fossils will be found, in what layers of rock, and what they will look like. Scientists also use morphological data to make genetic predictions, and vice versa, again something you'd only expect to be able to do with the theory of evolution.
You're coming dangerously close to factual relativism -- because I can't prove a negative, because the Deity could always have forged the evidence used to support evolution -- you're trying to say that our explanations are equally correct. That's a very dangerous road to go down, and one that should trouble you.