We are very very far from completely agreeing. I took the time to read your home page. Somewhat impressive except that while you pay much homage to our founding fathers you completely ignore any reference to the Judeo-Christian foundations on which our republic is founded. After reading your treatise I’m left wondering just where you think true morals and ethics originate. You seem to go out of your way to twist yourself into all kinds of pretzel logic instead of coming to the simple and straightforward truths.
When I said Cain’s wife must have been a sister that was a logical inference from what is in the text. What you said was simply adding something that is not found in the text. Had you not read in Gen 3:20 that Eve is the mother of all mankind?
You do the same thing w/ evolution - no where in the Bible is evolution ever something one could logically infer. God said plainly that he created each kind of creature male and female and the creation was accomplished in 6 24 hour days - no long epochs and no single life form to spawn all other kinds. Anything else is adding to or subtracting from the Holy Words (see Revelation 22:18 for a warning about this).
Evolution does not point to an even more powerful God - most think it points to no God at all! Is it not even more stupendous that He accomplished all the work of creation - we’re talking about the entire universe here - in 6 days. Also the diversity of life we see now as a result of micro-evolution of the several original kinds over less than 6 thousand years?
You are simply all too willing to give science credit where little if any real proof has been shown. Do you have any idea how many have abandoned their faith due to the teachings of Darwin, evolution, and long ages of the earth and universe?
“Also the diversity of life we see now as a result of micro-evolution of the several original kinds over less than 6 thousand years?”
While biologists do draw a distinction between micro-evolution and macro-evolution it really is a distinction without much difference. Or to put it another way, the distinction is a rather artificial one imposed by biologists. The simple answer is that the process at work in macro-evolution is precisely the same one at work in micro-evolution. So to say I believe micro-evolution, but not macro-evolution may sound erudite to the uneducated,…………it is like saying I believe in molecules, but not in atoms, electrons, protons and neutrons. ~ Steve Verdon
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/micro-evolution_vs_macro-evolution/
“You are simply all too willing to give science credit where little if any real proof has been shown. Do you have any idea how many have abandoned their faith due to the teachings of Darwin, evolution, and long ages of the earth and universe?”
Again, this is a logical constraint that must apply even if evolution were true — which is not in doubt, because if we didn’t have ancestors, then we wouldn’t be here. Neither does this mean that fossils exhibiting transitional structures do not exist, nor that it is impossible to reconstruct what happened in evolution. [...]
I am a religious person and I believe in God. I find the militant atheism of some evolutionary biologists ill-reasoned and childish, and most importantly unscientific — crucially, faith should not be subject to scientific justification. But the converse also holds true — science should not need to be validated by the narrow dogma of faith ~ Henery Gee
http://stevereuland.blogspot.com/2006/04/wittlessly-quote-mining.html
I have never lost my faith. I am a Christian and I accecpt the theory of evolution.
The evidence supporting it are simply too strong to ignore.