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Nail meet hammer. Dr Mohler is an intellectual giant.
1 posted on 01/16/2011 4:09:12 PM PST by balch3
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To: balch3

Giants do not exist.


2 posted on 01/16/2011 4:14:17 PM PST by Goldsborough
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To: balch3

The argument that Darwin is right and that evolution is how we became thinking, feeling humans is unimaginative, unproven hocum.

Young earth theory...ditto.


3 posted on 01/16/2011 4:17:53 PM PST by Grunthor (Enemy of the state)
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To: balch3

My Pastor believes in theistic evolution ... it seems to be a popular PCA heresy these days


4 posted on 01/16/2011 4:18:01 PM PST by RnMomof7 (Gal 4:16 asks "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?")
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To: balch3

5 posted on 01/16/2011 4:19:39 PM PST by stormer
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To: balch3

This has the potential to be a ‘Five Figure’ thread !!!


7 posted on 01/16/2011 4:23:33 PM PST by 11th_VA (Bush is gone, long live the Tea Party ....)
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To: balch3

We have come to realize that only adult species can produce offspring of its kind. Recently scientists in England ‘discovered’ that the chicken came first - the egg just cannot appear. Biblical Christians knew that from Genesis 1 - thousands of years ago.
All scientists know the first and second Laws of Thermodynamics; thus, they realize that life CANNOT come from non-life. They also realize that things move from order to disorder not the other way around.
EXCEPT in their theory of evolution - which they have not been able to repeat in the lab. So much for science.
Also, in the Greek language there are at least three words for life - one refers to the body, one to the mind, and one to the spirit/soul of man.
Evolutionists only speak of ‘bios’ the body. They don’t even have answers as to how we acquired our minds and the ability to think abstractly. They don’t have answers to the heart (conscience or enthusiasm and vitality in life.)
I believe that takes a much bigger leap of faith to believe in evolution than it does to belive in God and special creation.


15 posted on 01/16/2011 4:59:47 PM PST by PastorJimCM (truth matters)
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To: balch3

Kind of hard to get past the fact that speciation has never been observed and so is not established as factual.

And I don’t know why a pastor would want to bend his beliefs merely so they will fit an antiquated proposition which is defied by the fossil record.


30 posted on 01/16/2011 5:40:14 PM PST by reasonisfaith (Rules will never work for radicals (liberals) because they seek chaos. And don't even know it.)
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To: Alamo-Girl

Can you reconcile Mohler and your relativity of time and location theory?


66 posted on 01/16/2011 7:16:11 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain & proud of it: Truly Supporting the Troops means praying for their Victory!)
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The creation-evolution conflict in historical perspective
http://evolutionarychristianity.com/blog/general/ted-davis-the-creation-evolution-conflict-in-historical-perspective/


80 posted on 01/16/2011 7:45:17 PM PST by Matchett-PI (Trent Lott on Tea Party candidates: "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them" 7/19/10)
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To: balch3

The funniest thing about theistic evolution is that Christians who buy into it think they’re being logical and sophisticated, but they are then worshipping a Lord descended from a fictional character. The Bible places Adam in Jesus’ geneaology...


93 posted on 01/16/2011 8:17:27 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: balch3; Alamo-Girl; alstewartfan; betty boop; Blogger; Blood of Tyrants; BrandtMichaels; cheee; ...

Albert Mohler is right!


110 posted on 01/16/2011 8:45:17 PM PST by editor-surveyor (NOBAMA - 2012)
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To: GodGunsGuts

ping


132 posted on 01/16/2011 9:15:25 PM PST by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: balch3; Alamo-Girl; betty boop
As a fellow Southern Baptist, I would dump the "i", and spell that "gnat"...
146 posted on 01/16/2011 9:37:57 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: balch3
The entire answer to theistic evolution can be summarized as follows:

God does not use broken tools


191 posted on 01/17/2011 7:09:21 AM PST by wendy1946
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To: balch3; wideawake; All
I've said this so many times that I know I might as well quit, but I'm going to say it again anyway.

The idea that the creation of the universe proceeded by purely natural means with no "interference"(???) from the Creator is based on extrapolation from our knowledge of present processes. That is, the formation of stars, galaxies, volcanoes, and canyons allegedly tell us exactly how the universe came into existence at the beginning of time. Similarly, the way babies are conceived and born allegedly tells us exactly how the "first man" came into existence.

Though full of unfounded assumptions, this is well and good if one is going to be internally consistent. Atheist evolutionists can do this. But "theistic" evolutionists cannot. "Theistic" evolutionists inevitably arbitrarily deviate from this model at any number of places. Orthodox Jewish evolutionists deviate from it when it comes to the splitting of the Red Sea or the Revelation at Sinai (both of which are impossible via purely natural law as observable today). Chr*stian evolutionists, while insisting that Adam must have been conceived and born exactly as all humans are today, deviate from this to believe in the scientifically impossible "virgin birth." There is also the conundrum that the same G-d Who allegedly would never have "interfered"(???) with the natural process of creation has done nothing but interfere with the functioning of the universe since that time. In short, "theistic" evolutionists are not and cannot be internally consistent on this issue.

Ultimately it all boils down to the sociological issue of "us" vs. "them." "Our" miracles are sublime and inspirational and worthy of belief by the greatest intellects while "their" miracles are for "trailer trash."

There is absolutely nothing more to add to this.

217 posted on 01/17/2011 8:45:52 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator ('Anokhi HaShem 'Eloqeykha 'asher hotze'tikha me'Eretz Mitzrayim, mibeit `avadim . . .)
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To: balch3
The leaders of the Democrat party, the anti-American left, the big government education mafia and the growing wave of Constitution haters, all love to mock the Bible and target the creation notions which make man special in God's eyes.

They work hard everyday to deny the very foundational principle of our nation.

They all hate the American foundational assumption that we are "endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights"

They will lie and spin and deny, but in the end they will all come out of the closet to admit they reject that foundational principle just as they reject our Constitution.

I have been watching the left slowly become bolder in this admission for decades, always hedging their bets in case admission of their guilt would not yet be palatable.

The closet leftist revisionists on Free Republic will join them in their coming out of the closet, always painting historic American views on such things as the greatest of evils.

344 posted on 01/18/2011 5:13:55 AM PST by OriginalIntent (undo all judicial activism and its results)
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What a goofball this guy is.

These inerrancy types love to throw around the terms liberal and conservative. But they consider you a “liberal” if you don’t believe their centralized authority (in direct opposition to baptist tradition) and a 4000 year old earth,,,you are a “liberal”.

People would be surprised at some of the old school Texas baptists that woke up to find they were actually liberals. SB Seminary used to be respected.


385 posted on 01/18/2011 5:09:41 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: balch3

Well, he’s right that the theory of evolution is more than an explanation of evidence. From day one, it has been an overarching theory of the universe. Theistic evolution counters this with still another myth, which is something like Teilhard de Chardin’s view of things.


615 posted on 01/21/2011 3:07:29 PM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: balch3
Arguing with creationists is a lot like arguing with with people who think the moon landings were faked or 9/11 Truthers.

They'll throw out a ton of meaningless, memorized propaganda mentally copied from the same predictable sources.

Then at the end, you get a ridiculous attempt at QED:

9/11 Truther: "Do you just believe everything you're told? Fire can't melt steel! It's impossible!"
Moon Landing Conspiracy Guy: "How did we get through the Van Allen Belts? Explain that! It's impossible! And there's no wind on the moon, so how was the flag waving?"
Creationist: "How can something come from nothing? Explain that! No one's ever observed a chimp turning into a man before their eyes, therefore evolution is false. Get over it Mr. Materialist. I am not a monkey!"

I do enjoy reading a thread full of so much hokum though.

1,070 posted on 02/02/2011 8:03:13 PM PST by GunRunner (10 Years of Freeping...)
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