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To: FreedominJesusChrist
Becky, do not atttempt to argue science, please. This is a scientific classifiction, and if you will READ the definition it speaks of certain characteristics which define a primate, including highly developed brains and forward looking eyes. As far as I know the Bible doesn't require me to check basic scientific knowledge at the door.

This definition says nothing about the soul, salvation, or the actions of God in the affairs of men. It simply describes the characteristics of a certain group of animals, men being members of that group.

That God created men to be custodians of the rest in not discussed here. Discounting the definition as something that "most Bible believing Christians" wouldn't accept is spacious and irrelevant.

840 posted on 07/02/2002 1:59:43 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Miss Marple; FreedominJesusChrist
This almost reminds me of someone who claimed that the Old Testament was wrong because the Levitical laws classed bats in with birds. Anyway, here's the dictionary definition:

1. Any organism of the kingdom Animalia, distinguished from plants by certain typical characteristics, such as the power of locomotion, fixed structure and limited growth, and nonphotosynthetic metabolism.

2. Any such organism other than a human being; especially a mammal.

3. A person of inhuman character or bearing; someone who is bestial or brutish. ...
844 posted on 07/02/2002 3:52:14 PM PDT by A.J.Armitage
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To: Miss Marple
You spelled my name wrong.

"Becky, do not atttempt to argue science, please. This is a scientific classifiction, and if you will READ the definition it speaks of certain characteristics which define a primate, including highly developed brains and forward looking eyes. As far as I know the Bible doesn't require me to check basic scientific knowledge at the door."

You must be one of those Christians who believes in micro-evolution, which is pure junk science. This same organization most likely also defines the beginning of actual human life differently than we do too and also appears to espouse evolutionary theories. What's your point? They are human and thus, not all of their really, unproven assumptions can be correct.

Of course some animals are more intelligent than others, that fact is obvious. Monkeys and dogs are more intelligent than deer and sheep, but that doesn't put them in the same category as human beings. Your reference to chucking basic science out of the door also reminds me of those Christians who do not take the Bible as a literal and verbally inspired document either. That scientific definition you posted was already in err, because those who wrote it believed in both Macro and Micro evolution, despite the fact that there are still millions of missing links that they have yet to find in order to truly prove their theory. Hence, since they assumed that because human beings are "animals" and similiar to apes, they thus classified them in the same category in the animal kingdom. This definition is wrong simply because its basic definition of human being and animal is erroneous.

"This definition says nothing about the soul, salvation, or the actions of God in the affairs of men. It simply describes the characteristics of a certain group of animals, men being members of that group."

Of course it doesn't, because the people who wrote this were evolutionists, concerned with only the empirical.

"That God created men to be custodians of the rest in not discussed here. Discounting the definition as something that "most Bible believing Christians" wouldn't accept is spacious and irrelevant."

Yes it is relevant, especially when these scientists make claims that directly contradict what the Bible says. Despite what they espouse as the absolute truth, their theory is still just a theory.

I recommend the book, Intelligent Design to you.

850 posted on 07/02/2002 4:39:05 PM PDT by FreedominJesusChrist
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