Battle over evolution heating up

News 8 Austin ^ | 8/20/2003 | Antonio Castelan

[metacognative]

That's what progressive creationists believe; that it was all built in...like in a seed.

[bondserv]

That's what progressive creationists believe; that it was all built in...like in a seed.

They should just pick up a Bible and see how God said He did it.

Christians of this day need to be careful not to make the same mistakes we made in the past. That being, agreeing with conventional scientific understandings regarding the universe, despite it's contradictions to the Word of God.

1. Geo-Centric Universe
2. Flat-Earth
3. Pope's acknowledgement of Evolutionary Theory despite it's contradiction to the Word of God (This one has been a coup d'etat for Satan and his henchmen).

Christians should take Jesus' example to fight the lies of the enemy and use the Word of God as He did in Matthew 4. Eve's failure was she misrepresented God's words to Satan in the Garden.

God speaking in Gen 2:17, "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."

Eve Speaking in Gen 3:3, "But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die."

Eve was not confident in her precise knowledge of the Word of God and she added the bolded phrase to what God said. This evident doubt led to Satan's victory in the Garden and over mankind.

The best scientists consider the Word of God as the authority and they make their discoveries and posit they're hypothesis's with that in consideration.

For a good list of God fearing scientists see DittoJed2's List.

[Hue68]

Battle over evolution heating up.

What battle? Evolution happened, and is still happening. Spoken by a christian conservative with a brain.

[King Prout]

DING!
Thank you for NOT using Connington's "well witting" - that always struck me as a little limp-wristed.
I used to be able to recite this poem in its entirety in proper meter and accent.
Now I can remember mere snippets.
*sniff* see what lack of practice does?

It seemed appropriate.

[PatrickHenry]

I used to be able to recite this poem in its entirety in proper meter and accent.

When I was 16, I was on the verge of fluency, but I decided not to take 4th year Latin. Translations required too much homework, and by then I had discovered girls. I don't regret the decision. Also, I was never exposed to Horace, so my avoidance of your least-favored translation wasn't because of any knowing choice on my part. I was just blundering around.

[King Prout]

Translations required too much homework, and by then I had discovered girls.

et ego in arcadia vixi

[PatrickHenry]

I'm happy for you.

[King Prout]

*adrideo*

[PatrickHenry]

That translates as LOL!

[King Prout]

*grinning!* actually.
it occurs to me that there is some justice in using the most vital current forum of debate as an opportunity to rediscover and revive the greatest of dead languages.

[PatrickHenry]

There are probably Latin talk channels on usnet, and other places. I shall avoid them. Mono-linguistic proficiency is all I can handle at this point.

[gore3000]

Evolution happened, and is still happening.

No, it never did happen. Science has shown quite well the impossibility of one species transforming itself into another. Genetics shows us the impossibility of a mutation spreading throughout a species. DNA shows us the impossibility of a new useful gene ever occurring. Natural selection is only a destroyer, it cannot create anything.

Just about everything which evolutionists claim would enable species to transform itself into another has been scientifically shown to be false.

[King Prout]

I just thought of this, as an appendix and tangential addendum:
A story may be entirely non-factual, yet remain utterly true.
Case in point: no one believes that animals speak or behave as they are presented in Aesop's Fables, but does that have any impact whatsoever on the essential truth of those stories?
Perhaps the apparent disparity between Genesis and more verifiable records is along those lines - God may hve been more interested in imparting His Truth to Man, rather than cramming our heads full of rote memorization of abstruse facts.
Assuming, for the argument: God; God's involvement with Man; God's ultimate authorship of Genesis - none of which are demonstrable.

[PatrickHenry]

A story may be entirely non-factual, yet remain utterly true.

Sure. Most of the science crowd take that approach. But there are those who don't, thus the endless conflicts we encounter in the evolution threads. It's just the way things are.

[King Prout]

"cool placemarker" placemarker

[King Prout]

yep. sad, but funny at the same time.

[King Prout]

hey, johnnie-come-lately, read the thread and then tell me why you were so stupid as to rudely accuse me of being in the creationist camp.

[God is good]

"Faith and science are complimentary. Don't use faith to build your science...

Good advice for an evolutionist to follow.

...Don't use science to try to destroy or shrink my faith," he said.

My faith is in God's Word--a faith science won't destroy.