Posted on 06/17/2002 3:10:50 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
Why would you do that?
No, evolution is chance mutation and natural selection. Mutation can produce variations in abilities. Competition can sort out variations -- who gets the food, who gets the mate, who avoids being eaten before he can reproduce.
Perhaps someone will frighten me into it someday with their stories about "lakes of fire" and the like. I suspect that almost all faith is ultimately born of fear.
Good answer. I especially liked this part, too:
It is assuming that scientists, like the religious leaders of old, are both infallible and have the ability to rule the rest of us.
Who will rule us? Truth be told, this is what it's all about. Power to shape our laws, our culture, and even the moral fiber of the world, this is what the fundamentalist evolutionists are after. In other words, they want a world of their own creation.
Typical evolutionist rant - beating up on non-existent strawmen. Most scientists believe in God and they do not consider their profession inimical to their religion.
Further, it must be added, that evolution is the anti-science. Science is about discovering the truth, evolution is about discovering justifications for its theory. Science is undirected, evolution tries to direct science for an ideological purpose.
It has been my considerable (multi-decade) experience arguing with religionists that it is indeed fear at the base of their faith. They talk love on the surface, but fear eternal hell and vengence most of all.
My point was that both exist. There is no need to reject one for the other. I am an ardent fan of science. But I am also realistic enough to know it doesn't come close to explaining our natural history yet.
Mind-reading is one of your occupations huh? I have no fear of what you speak. Love is sometimes very difficult to display especially when the object is so vehemently dislikeable. The fact that even under those circumstances love does shine forth is evidence for what you do not see. I would write God bless you to you, but I will show love and not.
Proclaiming anyone who has a faith in a greater being is not using their brain makes it apparent that you have no standing in that remark.
So you believe that we should kill homosexuals, that slavery is okay, that you shouldn't wear clothing of mixed threads, that women are "unclean" every month, etc. These are all in the Bible.
Your statement here mirrors my thoughts on this as far as FR is concerned.
The number of those who believe in evolution here is a fraction of one percent (not all evolutionists are atheists, however). So this in my mind begs the question: What is the purpose of the continuous posting of evolution threads amongst the supermajority of those who do believe in a Creator?
In my opinion, it is nothing but a mechanism to stir up trouble and put their thumb in the eye of the believer. These threads have absolutely nothing to do with conservatism, and if you would notice, the evo/crevo threads only have a handful of posters who delight in this type of thread and nothing else. I say evolution is nothing more than a theory and those who believe in it (at least the atheistic believers) must convince themselves daily that there is no God. If their "science" proves that there is no God, why get in a twist over the subject?
JimRob permits it, so my opinion of the threads being here is moot. However, the real motives behind these things are obvious.
Carry on, everybody. I could use some good laughs from time to time, and these threads never fail to provide those laughs.
To think we're at the apex right now and everything that doesn't fit the current mold must be false is a ludicrous idea. Reminds me of the fact that they once closed down the U.S. Patent Office because they thought every possible invention had already been created.
A question which I never hear evolutionists answer is why if evolution goes on all the time, if evolution occurs because species must adapt to survive, why are amoebas, such simple creatures, still around after some billion years? Why if evolution goes on all the time, these creatures remain simple and unchanged?
Wow...you really dont have a clue about Christianity do you? You are so far gone you think we hate homosexuals. We love them but hate their sin. BIG difference in your imaginary world of what you want Christianity to be. Maybe you should attend my church? And please show me where God tells me to murder homosexuals as opposed to a story of morality and Gods justice on those who turn from him after chance after chance to repent.
He certainly denies the Bible specifically. He denies that God is the Creator of man. Darwin was also an atheist and toyed around with the idea of also saying that God did not create life. However, he found trying to prove such as too hard so he left it up to others to make the conclusion. It should be noted that of the outspoken spokesmen for evolution there is not a single religionist. They are all (or were, many are dead already) atheists.
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