Posted on 02/19/2009 9:24:24 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
What Is Science?
"Even if all the data point to an intelligent designer, such an hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic."
—Dr. Scott Todd, Kansas State University, Nature 401(6752):423, Sept. 30, 1999
What You Will Learn
Many people do not realize that science was actually developed in Christian Europe by men who assumed that God created an orderly universe. If the universe is a product of random chance or a group of gods that interfere in the universe, there is really no reason to expect order in nature. Many of the founders of the principle scientific fields, such as Bacon, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, were believers in a recently created earth. The idea that science cannot accept a creationist perspective is a denial of scientific history...
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My reference was more general, that is, to the belief that the bible is allegorical and that Christianity is supportive of a belief in evolution. I was not referring to specific passages.
But you knew that!
Dude just answer the question. Is there a problem in professing your belief in Jesus? Most Christians I know have no problem in doing this.
Sorry, I don’t respond to “Dude”, either...
Creation scientists owe me this explanation:
How many species at the time of Noah’s Ark?
How big a ship to hold them all (2 each)? Historic examples of such vessels.
Criticisms of evolution seem to focus on missing things from sequences.
I am just asking for the most simple, basic proofs of the creation story.
So you're opposed to Israel?
I do not believe sin, as interpreted by Biblical standards, is real.
I do believe there are social norms that help preserve order and promote societal harmony and that are in the best interest of all participants.
Hell fire and damnation aren't real either. We don't reap what we sew, in most cases. Justice is hardly equal to the offense in so many cases and Christians take solace that "they will get theirs" when they meet God.
It's abstract but cunning. It calms the masses. And those who live outside Biblical law, in this country at least, do not fear any consequence from those who live within it.
“Evolution and Christianity are perfectly compatible.”
Not to those who insist on a literal interpretation of the Bible.
That’s right—a minority among Christians to be sure...
Sorry, I don’t respond to “Dude”, either...
Mr. Buck, will you please answer the question?
Getting a strait answer out of a troll from ‘Disrupter Central’ is like trying to get a banana slug to jump through a flaming circus ring.
“That’s right—a minority among Christians to be sure...”
But I am reading that the majority are communists, or worse.
“But I am reading that the majority are communists, or worse.”
Consider the source(s)...
So you’re opposed to Jesus Christ your Savior?
Still waiting.
>>What Is Science?<<
Humanity’s major source of advancement of productivity and understanding.
#317.
Check out the komodo dragon argument!
’Tis the common staple of most any political argument, and it is not attributable to any particular group; Christian, Scientist (including those who pretend to speak for scientists), Marxist/Socialist, Republican; Islamic lunatic; or most any other identifiable group. It’s how you keep the controversy going, even long after it deserves nothing better than a dignified death and a decent burial.
Nice! I say that I don't want a ban and have never called for a ban and you post that only a complete ban of the topic will suit you. Be careful what you post. God is watching you and waiting.
Everytime a Biblical literalist gets his chance to respond literal to Biblical passages he says that the passages have to be interpreted in context with all the other passages in the Bible.
So you would favor addressing creation in the public schools in science class when evolution was taught and that parents who’s who don’t wish to have their kids hear it, can have their kids opt out of that section of class?
You think that keeping the creation account out of the schools and letting evolution have a monopoly is wrong then?
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