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Darwin on the Right: Why Christians and conservatives should accept evolution
Scientific American ^
| October 2006 issue
| Michael Shermer
Posted on 09/18/2006 1:51:27 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: Doctor Stochastic
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posted on
09/18/2006 3:52:37 PM PDT
by
stands2reason
(ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
To: Gumlegs
I don't know anywhere near enough about Gresham's Law, or monetary policy for that matter, to answer that question. Not even after reading the Wikipedia article on it. So I'm going to give you a "probably not quite" there.
To: Gordongekko909
Checking Wikipedia for "cheap puns" might get you closer.
Sorry.
123
posted on
09/18/2006 3:56:59 PM PDT
by
Gumlegs
To: King Prout
My point was simply that this person's arguments weren't going to add any information to the decision-making process, in my opinion.
124
posted on
09/18/2006 3:57:37 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Please pray for Vlad's four top incisors to arrive real soon!)
To: srweaver
Since there were not "enough" transitional form fossils these changes must have happened so fast there was no time to leave a fossil record.
You are incorrect. There exists an extensive fossil record that, thus far, supports common descent.
125
posted on
09/18/2006 3:58:26 PM PDT
by
Dimensio
(http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
To: Krodg
Do you believe God's image is physical? That God is some kind of superhuman?
126
posted on
09/18/2006 3:59:21 PM PDT
by
stands2reason
(ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
To: Dimensio
What is the prototype insect from which all others descended?
what is the prototype mammal, from which all others descended?
Be specific, please.
127
posted on
09/18/2006 4:00:44 PM PDT
by
srweaver
(Never Forget the Judicial Homicide of Terri Schiavo)
To: The Blitherer
http://www.allaboutthejourney.org/fossil-record.htm
The third sentence -- not including the out-of-context quotes from Charles Darwin -- is "Nearly 150 years later, there has been no evidence of evolutionary transition found thus far in the fossil record." This statement is
demonstratably false. An essay that opens with such an obviously false claim is clearly either not well researched or not written with honest intent.
128
posted on
09/18/2006 4:00:56 PM PDT
by
Dimensio
(http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
To: srweaver
What is the prototype insect from which all others descended?
what is the prototype mammal, from which all others descended?
Why do you expect there to be a determined answer to these questions?
129
posted on
09/18/2006 4:02:23 PM PDT
by
Dimensio
(http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
To: The Blitherer; Dimensio
ICR?
We need scientific research here. An advocacy group doesn't count, unless you're also willing to treat PFLAG's website as a valid scientific authority on homosexuality.
130
posted on
09/18/2006 4:04:26 PM PDT
by
highball
(Proud to announce the birth of little Highball, Junior - Feb. 7, 2006!)
To: Gumlegs
Oh. Specie. Just got it. Hoo boy, that's a knee-slapper. ::slaps knee::
To: Dimensio
The website you directed to states:
"Usually there are still gaps between each of the groups -- few or none of the speciation events are preserved."
Thre are changes within species, microevolution, as any dog or horse breeder can tell you, but we still seem to be missing credible transitional form info except for those who choose to believe in evolution.
132
posted on
09/18/2006 4:05:47 PM PDT
by
srweaver
(Never Forget the Judicial Homicide of Terri Schiavo)
To: Dimensio
Just trying to point out that you have chosen to have faith in macroevolution, as you CANNOT demonstrate it from the fossil record.
133
posted on
09/18/2006 4:07:21 PM PDT
by
srweaver
(Never Forget the Judicial Homicide of Terri Schiavo)
To: PatrickHenry
"Much of Christian morality has to do with human relationships, most notably truth telling and marital fidelity, because the violation of these principles causes a severe breakdown in trust, which is the foundation of family and community. Evolution describes how we developed into pair-bonded primates and how adultery violates trust. Likewise, truth telling is vital for trust in our society, so lying is a sin."So much for the selfish gene.
134
posted on
09/18/2006 4:09:21 PM PDT
by
jwalsh07
(Behead any infidel who claims that Islam is not a religion of peace!)
To: The Blitherer
Thank you. I've been running into creationists who insist the image is physical, that God has a body that ours resemble.
I find the idea animistic and paganistic.
Yet I don't think these people are in a specific denomination that accepts that as dogma; in fact, I don't know of any denomination that has that as a tenet.
Could be just ignorance on my part though.
135
posted on
09/18/2006 4:10:12 PM PDT
by
stands2reason
(ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
To: srweaver
Thre are changes within species, microevolution, as any dog or horse breeder can tell you, but we still seem to be missing credible transitional form info except for those who choose to believe in evolution.
Perhaps you could explain where you see deficiencies in the fossil record that lend credible doubt to the theory of evolution.
136
posted on
09/18/2006 4:10:18 PM PDT
by
Dimensio
(http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
To: srweaver
Just trying to point out that you have chosen to have faith in macroevolution, as you CANNOT demonstrate it from the fossil record.
The existence of credible evidence for common descent does not logically imply that there exists an identification of the "first" mammal or insect organisms.
137
posted on
09/18/2006 4:11:34 PM PDT
by
Dimensio
(http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
To: srweaver
If they accept macroevolution they believe God is a liar. So, your god is a book? On the one hand you have a book that claims to be the Word of God, but is demonstrably false, and on the other you have verifiable evidence and observation.
Proof positive, ladies and gentlemen, that some Christians actually worship the Bible and not God.
138
posted on
09/18/2006 4:14:04 PM PDT
by
Junior
(Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
To: scottdeus12
Mark 10:5-7 (King James Version)
King James Version (KJV)
Public Domain
A Public Domain Bible KJV at Zondervan Zondervan
5And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
139
posted on
09/18/2006 4:14:18 PM PDT
by
Rodm
(Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings)
Who is advocating the mixing science and religion here? A Scientific American article by
Michael Shermer ?
FYI
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