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Man, Im watching this Why Creationism is Wrong podcast by Professor Steve Jones for The Royal Sopciety, and I think its really really dreadfull.

So unless someones already posted it already, heres Dr Ken Miller on the Dover ID trial.

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Similarly the ancestors of mankind are not apes but lots of people mistakenly claim that. Even people who do know better.

Actually they were, and we are still apes now.

Well, we're not discussing taxonomical issues here; as far as I can tell, when Charis refers to apes he means the modern day Gorilla/Pan subfamilies.  Even when respecting the divergence (I think it's put at 25my ago?) of the great ape family, there's kind of an issue in relating 'ape' in a modern day context to 'ape' in the historical taxonomical context.  Unfortunately when you deal with creationist arguements you tend to be working at a very low level in scientific terms, one that usually fails to understand the basics of evolutionary theory and divergences; there's a big risk (and tendency) that a creationist will interpret evolved from apes as implying we're all just one step from a modern gorilla or something.

 

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Yep. Aldo's basically made the point I wanted to make. I should know better than try to post quickly in the advertising break of a show I'm watching :D
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Re: More proof of evolution
Well, we're not discussing taxonomical issues here; as far as I can tell, when Charis refers to apes he means the modern day Gorilla/Pan subfamilies.  Even when respecting the divergence (I think it's put at 25my ago?) of the great ape family, there's kind of an issue in relating 'ape' in a modern day context to 'ape' in the historical taxonomical context.  Unfortunately when you deal with creationist arguements you tend to be working at a very low level in scientific terms, one that usually fails to understand the basics of evolutionary theory and divergences; there's a big risk (and tendency) that a creationist will interpret evolved from apes as implying we're all just one step from a modern gorilla or something.

Yes, but that is why I think its important to use the terms in the right way and correct any incorrect or inappropriate usage. Creationists will regulally use scientific terms in the wrong way, for example words like "species" and "information".

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Well, we're not discussing taxonomical issues here; as far as I can tell, when Charis refers to apes he means the modern day Gorilla/Pan subfamilies.  Even when respecting the divergence (I think it's put at 25my ago?) of the great ape family, there's kind of an issue in relating 'ape' in a modern day context to 'ape' in the historical taxonomical context.  Unfortunately when you deal with creationist arguements you tend to be working at a very low level in scientific terms, one that usually fails to understand the basics of evolutionary theory and divergences; there's a big risk (and tendency) that a creationist will interpret evolved from apes as implying we're all just one step from a modern gorilla or something.

Yes, but that is why I think its important to use the terms in the right way and correct any incorrect or inappropriate usage. Creationists will regulally use scientific terms in the wrong way, for example words like "species" and "information".

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Oh, no doubt, and it's a major pain in the arse trying to reconcile the problems caused by this sort of fundamental misunderstanding of evolution, particularly when the scientific evidence is being so casually ignored.  i mean, for example, I don't think I've seen a single reply to any of the scientific responses or even the simple ones I've posted, to the extent that the same base mistakes (namely on the big bang as part of evolution and the incorrect definition of selection theory) were made in Charis' post 5 pages down the line.

 

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Well what do you expect me to scientificly bable on to?
The psudo magnetic force, as related to polygons, indicate that there is some subatomic mass in the nuclear level. Therefore, that implys that there is a force of nature beyond the eyespectrum. That can be proven by the ganacosis level of nuclear blasts, spursing out when force is applied to them. So, with these hard core facts, the solid theory deriven from them, is that, the force beyond nature really is God. He wrote his name on every cell, we just dont have microscopes to see that small.
There topic proven. ???

If there is such talk, im not the one to ask. Im not a scientific man. I know general facts about Evolution, ID, and Natural Selection, Genetic Mutation, Surivial of the Fittest etc., tho some, (as have been pointed out) are incorrectly stated.

Prove a beleif that is proved in various ways (GOD\Creationism\Christianity). Your beleifs are proved in single lined ways(Evolution,ID,etc.); thus more 'hard core facts', and 'scientific terms'.
As i said, I will get some books sometime and quote and respond form them, soon (week or so). Il try to get whatever else info i can from the (dammed) net, untill then.

EDIT: God is not a science. God is a being. FAIK, he cant be proved totally by scientific means.
We see that there is a God, and his dealings with us, in the Bible. The old testament is full of how God saved the isralites. The new testament, is how Gods son came and did many miracles, saved the world, etc.

That for one. Today, there are people who, get prayed for, and their illness goes away. They are on their death bed, of cancer, and they are prayed over, and their cancer is totally gone the next day. The SCIENTISTS dont know what hapened, or how or why the cancer went away, dissapeared. I hear of people being raised from the dead, comeing back to life, and walking and talking just like before. I myself have seen people in church services get healed. Iv seen demons being casted out. Demons are on the spiritual level. You cant always see or hear them by our physical eyes and ears. People cant exactly prove they exist, yet many have seen them. Same with god. Many have had visions, like in the bible, nowadays. You cant prove they had it, but they did. People have seen angels. People in the bible have seen angels. How can you prove with science, what people saw?
Its a proof on a whole different level, thats what iv been saying. Some of it can coincide and be proven on the scientific level, but ATM i dont know where to start. Few if any.
Explain healing. People go to a 'faith healer' with a tumor or some disease, and they get healed. Faith, beleif. Jesus said 'your faith has made you whole' in one instance. Explain faith. Explain faith healing. Faith in God.
I know ALOT about the spiritual aspect of christianity. A bit less, as you know, about the scientific proofs of it. Yet i know God is real and he exists.
Prove subspace or hperspace exists. You dont know, you cant see it. Its a whole nother freaking realm. Same with heaven\hell. it is a whole nother world, yet we cant see or hear it. We know they exist. Some people have seen heavon (a friend of mine had a vision of hell once) when they almost died. Explain that. Explain the whole 'i saw light' thing many have said. Explain visions, scientificaly. Proficy. Explain how prophets just 'know things'. How Jesus knew, the samarian woman at the well, had 5 husbands. He only just met her a minute ago, and knew that. Prophets have spoken to me, and just knew things. Explain that.
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Re: More proof of evolution
Prove a beleif that is proved in various ways (GOD\Creationism\Christianity). Your beleifs are proved in single lined ways(Evolution,ID,etc.); thus more 'hard core facts', and 'scientific terms'.
As i said, I will get some books sometime and quote and respond form them, soon (week or so). Il try to get whatever else info i can from the (dammed) net, untill then.


We are doing just such a thing. The real problem is that you aren't doing this yourself. Your primary, only source is the Biblical creation story, with a few misquoted statements to back it up. God/Creationism/Christianity are all essentially the same source. Evolutionists have a broad field to work from in order to prove their points. Geology, biology and astronomy are just a few of the sources that they are able to employ to prove their points. Creationists tend to argue almost simply that "What God said is right, and that's all you need to know," and quote the book of Genesis to back their arguments. Scientically, that is a very poor way to form an argument.

Start quoting more sources than the Bible (which I see you had in your long-winded post earlier; that is good) more often, and this will give you a little bit more leverage.
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Re: More proof of evolution
Prove a beleif that is proved in various ways (GOD\Creationism\Christianity). Your beleifs are proved in single lined ways(Evolution,ID,etc.); thus more 'hard core facts', and 'scientific terms'.
As i said, I will get some books sometime and quote and respond form them, soon (week or so). Il try to get whatever else info i can from the (dammed) net, untill then.


We are doing just such a thing. The real problem is that you aren't doing this yourself. Your primary, only source is the Biblical creation story, with a few misquoted statements to back it up. God/Creationism/Christianity are all essentially the same source. Evolutionists have a broad field to work from in order to prove their points. Geology, biology and astronomy are just a few of the sources that they are able to employ to prove their points. Creationists tend to argue almost simply that "What God said is right, and that's all you need to know," and quote the book of Genesis to back their arguments. Scientically, that is a very poor way to form an argument.

Start quoting more sources than the Bible (which I see you had in your long-winded post earlier; that is good) more often, and this will give you a little bit more leverage.
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Re: More proof of evolution
INTELLIGENT DESIGN.
A faction called Intelligent Design, opposes evolution and denies Christianity at the same time. ]

What? ID opposes and denies Christianity?! 

I dare you to prove that one!!   :lol:


Charismatic,

 Im still waiting, so just reminding you.


 

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Explain how prophets just 'know things'. How Jesus knew, the samarian woman at the well, had 5 husbands. He only just met her a minute ago, and knew that. Prophets have spoken to me, and just knew things. Explain that.

:lol: First prove that those events actually happened. I might as well be asking you to prove that Buddha or Rama did something for all the logic your question displays.

If I asked you to prove that Rama did something what would you tell me? That you don't believe Rama exists in the first place. And that's your whole problem. You similarly need to prove that Jesus existed and did miracles scientifically before you can demand scientific answers for how.
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Re: More proof of evolution
I think its clear we are talking to someone that doesnt understand the first thing about logic, I doubt its possible to reason with someone like that.Sometimes Creationists are Creationists just because they are scientically ignorent, I dont think Charismatic is one of them.

 

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The saddest thing is that he keeps attempting to roll evolution up into this giant God-disproving theory and assumes that if he can prove God exists in any way, shape, size or form that it means he wins. Worse he keeps doing this even after being told repeatedly that it doesn't matter in the slightest whether God exists or not. There are large numbers of Christians who believe in God and still think that evolution is correct. Proving God exists is completely irrelevant to this discussion.
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Well what do you expect me to scientificly bable on to?
The psudo magnetic force, as related to polygons, indicate that there is some subatomic mass in the nuclear level. Therefore, that implys that there is a force of nature beyond the eyespectrum. That can be proven by the ganacosis level of nuclear blasts, spursing out when force is applied to them. So, with these hard core facts, the solid theory deriven from them, is that, the force beyond nature really is God. He wrote his name on every cell, we just dont have microscopes to see that small.
There topic proven. ???

We don't expect babbling.  We expect the merest hint that you've actually read the numerous replies and information therein, rather than just looked for ways to ignore it.  If you're writing off replies as 'babbling', it just shows you're simply not willing to even try to understand the, because most of us have bent over backwards to phrase stuff in as clear and concise a manner as possible.

If there is such talk, im not the one to ask. Im not a scientific man. I know general facts about Evolution, ID, and Natural Selection, Genetic Mutation, Surivial of the Fittest etc., tho some, (as have been pointed out) are incorrectly stated.

Prove a beleif that is proved in various ways (GOD\Creationism\Christianity). Your beleifs are proved in single lined ways(Evolution,ID,etc.); thus more 'hard core facts', and 'scientific terms'.
As i said, I will get some books sometime and quote and respond form them, soon (week or so). Il try to get whatever else info i can from the (dammed) net, untill then.

This is very odd. your previous attempts to reconcile the bible - particularly Noahs Ark & the flood - with scientific knowledge have failed.  You've not provided any proof, and at best what you have provided is  a list of buzzwords, left unexplained, that correlate to scientifically flawed theories.  I have no idea what a 'single lined way' is supposed to mean, but I can only assume it comes back to a general ignorance on the weight of evidence supporting evolution (not to mention how that evidence is used to form and revise the theory).


EDIT: God is not a science. God is a being. FAIK, he cant be proved totally by scientific means.
We see that there is a God, and his dealings with us, in the Bible. The old testament is full of how God saved the isralites. The new testament, is how Gods son came and did many miracles, saved the world, etc.

None of which is of any relevance here nor enters the discussion.  We've seen both the Catholic church and Church of England endorse evolution.  Part of the purpose of ID, of course, is to attack science because it contradicts the literal reading of the bible (and hence the 'powerbase' of those funding ID), and in turn allow the rather disturbing promotion of religion in the science classroom. 


That for one. Today, there are people who, get prayed for, and their illness goes away. They are on their death bed, of cancer, and they are prayed over, and their cancer is totally gone the next day. The SCIENTISTS dont know what hapened, or how or why the cancer went away, dissapeared. I hear of people being raised from the dead, comeing back to life, and walking and talking just like before. I myself have seen people in church services get healed. Iv seen demons being casted out. Demons are on the spiritual level. You cant always see or hear them by our physical eyes and ears. People cant exactly prove they exist, yet many have seen them. Same with god. Many have had visions, like in the bible, nowadays. You cant prove they had it, but they did. People have seen angels. People in the bible have seen angels. How can you prove with science, what people saw?

This is again illustrative of the flaws of relying upon religion as an arguement.  Look at your phraseology - 'How can you prove with science, what people saw?'.  you've already come up with a conclusion, before even considering how to examine the evidence.  We all know the human eye, and the human mind behind it, is prone to exaggeration, misinterpretation, and inserting hidden meaning.  That's why we rely upon science as a guide, not the best guess of the eye, because science provides a framework of rational investigation and neutral observation.

There's power in belief.  Power over the people who share that belief.  How many corrupt televangelists have we seen?  Do you go and get a doctor to examine the people you see healed?  Do you check the pulse of the person 'raised from the dead'?  I hesitate to note that a few centuries ago mental illness was chalked up to being possession.

And even when it does happen, do we have proof of any correlation?  100 people get cancer, 100 familes pray, one goes into remission.  And you assume that one person is Gods will, some divine act, even as another 99 are dying.  Because it's easier to believe in a miracle than look for a hard answer.

And y'know what?  None of this matters to evolution, because evolution is not inexplicable.  That's the whole point.  Why else, do you think, does the largest Christian denomination in the world support it?


Its a proof on a whole different level, thats what iv been saying. Some of it can coincide and be proven on the scientific level, but ATM i dont know where to start. Few if any.
Explain healing. People go to a 'faith healer' with a tumor or some disease, and they get healed. Faith, beleif. Jesus said 'your faith has made you whole' in one instance. Explain faith. Explain faith healing. Faith in God.

Placebo effect.  Explain how people with heart conditions who know others are praying for them have an increased mortality.  Again, off the topic of evolution itself.


I know ALOT about the spiritual aspect of christianity. A bit less, as you know, about the scientific proofs of it. Yet i know God is real and he exists.
Prove subspace or hperspace exists. You dont know, you cant see it. Its a whole nother freaking realm. Same with heaven\hell. it is a whole nother world, yet we cant see or hear it. We know they exist. Some people have seen heavon (a friend of mine had a vision of hell once) when they almost died. Explain that. Explain the whole 'i saw light' thing many have said. Explain visions, scientificaly. Proficy. Explain how prophets just 'know things'. How Jesus knew, the samarian woman at the well, had 5 husbands. He only just met her a minute ago, and knew that. Prophets have spoken to me, and just knew things. Explain that.


The near death experience (light at the end of the tunnel) is believed to be caused by brain activity within the parts responsible for dreams, aka REM intrusion.  There was a recent study supporting it, although a lot of the mechanisms are still being investigated (this is the brilliant thing about science, y'see - no assumptions) and you'd expect a bit of a shortage of willing test subjects.

Anything specified within the bible is to be taken, from a historical perspective, with a liberal pinch of salt.  We know it's not the literal truth, because we can disprove a literal reading.   If you're wanting to start and promote a religion, you're hardly likely to put it in anything beyond the most positive way, are you?  Ultimately, if you want to regard the bible as literal truth, you have to accept every other religious book (Quran, Torah, Bhagavad Gita, Guru Granth Sahib, Vinaya Pitaka, etc) must be true, as they all can cite the same amount of supporting information in pretty much the same liberally interpreted manner.

That's not to say there isn't some historical correlation to the bible, as most myths have some basis in fact.

Prophecy... prophecy can be pretty reasonably said to occur in every religion that we know of; usually it's so vague as to be liberally interpreted in a way to fit the events you pick.  Take Nostradamus.  Or take Revelations; most non-theologans/historians recognise it as being most likely a disquised attack on Nero (who oppressed Christians as a threat to the empire), but you'll see it cited as evidence for stuff like RFID being the devils mark. 

What you have to realise, is that it's very easy to pretend to read someones mind; for example, Derren Brown is a guy in the UK, usually Channel 4, who knows a bit about the psychology of tricking people into thinking he is psychic.  And he basically uses subtle casual clues to trick people into this - things like common names or numbers, reciting family members (father, mother, son...) or things of that ilk until he sees a subtle involuntary action, etc.  And he manages to convince (and I mena convince, as in 'that's 100% correct') people that, for example, he can read their mind, or dreams, or that he's talked to the dead, or that he knows their entire medical history, etc.  It's all about psychology, basically - you can read peoples reactions, use some fairly common nouns or events as 'hints' to get them, and make them think you are geniunely able to read their minds.  It's not easy, of course, and I couldn't do it - but do you think all those gypsy palmreaders are psychics? 

(Actually, apparently there's a really easy trick you can try.  Basically, you go up to a random person.  Ask them for something simple and easy, which they'll willing give.  Keep asking this for a bit, so they're in a mental chain of politely 'giving' to you.  Then ask for their wallet.)

Watch this please!
Here's a clip;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDCrXNVCTlY (watch right to the end)

EDIT; this one is of relation even more so; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJjNfHEpFTc

Remember; this guy is a professional trickster, to lack a better term.  He's a confessed fake, and those 2 clips are from a show showing how easy it is.

Again, evolution isn't challenging your belief in God.  It's challenging your literalism, because we can see evidence of evolution, and we can show it works.  Are you suggesting that what we cannot see means more than what we can?  That an infinite possibility of things that might not exist override what we know does?
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Re: More proof of evolution
The psudo magnetic force, as related to polygons, indicate that there is some subatomic mass in the nuclear level. Therefore, that implys that there is a force of nature beyond the eyespectrum. That can be proven by the ganacosis level of nuclear blasts, spursing out when force is applied to them. So, with these hard core facts, the solid theory deriven from them, is that, the force beyond nature really is God. He wrote his name on every cell, we just dont have microscopes to see that small.
There topic proven. ???


  • Where on earth did this come from, as you certainly can't be its originator.
  • Can you at least make sure that the terms you are using are spelled remotely correctly?
  • Can you explain how this somehow is more than a series of unconnected assertions?
  • What does this have to do with anything?

And if you had been reading this thread at all, you'd find that no one is trying to prove or disprove God.  Proving God wouldn't disprove evolution in any way, shape or form, no more than proving evolution disproves God.  Totally seperate arguments.

If there is such talk, im not the one to ask. Im not a scientific man. I know general facts about Evolution, ID, and Natural Selection, Genetic Mutation, Surivial of the Fittest etc., tho some, (as have been pointed out) are incorrectly stated.

And yet your inability to produce even tangental responses to almost all the facts raised against you clearly shows that your knowledge is, at best, severly limited.  If you knew the "facts" about evolution at all, you never would have posted that life began at the big bang.  And yet, it's appeared in orange twice in this thread.

EDIT: I also want to clear this up:

Because according to current science they were wrong, possibly due to new data or simply because they were not as well-informed and did not bother to try and extend their knowledge on the subject.
Can you, perhaps, give some backing that they are wrong. Because, you guys have been nailing me for not haveing backing ATM, and you are doing the same. How do you know they are wrong, yet, dont know why they are? If you didnt know, wouldent you, just as well, beleive it was still right?

Ok, well lets make this nice and simple.  The distinction between "Ape" and "Modern Ape" is extremely important here.  I'm going to refer you to the Human Taxonomy page at Wikipedia.

Humans and great apes converge in this classification scheme at the superfamily (Hominoids).  Evolutionary ancestory species of both families are found in that superfamily.  (Monkeys come in at the suborder or order, depending on the species, since they diverged earlier.  Biological taxonomy of this form predates Darwinian evolutionary theory and while it should be noted that this classification page is revised to fit current evolutionary data even the old taxonomy tree was very much in line with evolution.)  Evolutionary ancestors to humans are found within the specific genus Homo (or the subtribe above us, depending on how fine-grained you make the table).  Therefore if you say that man decended from Apes you are not being specific enough about how broad you are being with the term "Ape".  Man did not evolve from modern apes (gorillas, chimps) but did evolve from a species still in the Hominid family.  To say he evolved from a modern ape is categorically incorrect.  To say that he evolved from an ape is actually correct, as man is still classified as an ape.  The distinction lies in what you consider "ape" to include, and is thus purely semantic.
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Re: More proof of evolution
Well first of all, proveing there is a god may not be possibly done by hard core facts. As we dont have gods cells or whatever hes made out of, if hes made out of anything. Faith in god opposed to substancial 2+2=4 facts. You expect me to throw some formula or fossil of a angel out on the tabel to prove it?
I dont think God can be proved unless he makes you a beleiver personally.
I am overwhelmed at the stuff im up agienst here, and you dont seem to be understanding my position.

In a sense, yes, I do expect you to prove the existance of God. For you cannot have Intelligent Design without a Designer. And if not God in the literal sense, then certainly God-like. By your own admission, proving God is impossible...and yet that is what you have set out to do. That is what Intelligent Design is in its most basic form: proving the existance of God.
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Re: More proof of evolution
Actually Charismatic has renounced ID as being some sort of third way that has nothing to do with Christianity or Evolution.

He's wrong but let's not try to claim that he supports ID when he's actually a young-Earth creationist in the classic sense of the term.

Besides proving God exists doesn't prove or disprove evolution and leads to large amounts of off-topic. I'd rather see Charismatc attempt to defend his original assertion that evolution is wrong. 
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Re: More proof of evolution
Can you, perhaps, give some backing that they are wrong. Because, you guys have been nailing me for not haveing backing ATM, and you are doing the same. How do you know they are wrong, yet, dont know why they are? If you didnt know, wouldent you, just as well, beleive it was still right?

Mmm, did you read the wikipedia articles I linked to?

There has also been a fairly consistent bit about (Assuming a constant rate of genetic mutation) chimpanzees and humans diverged from a common ancestor roughly 6 million years ago. Perhaps the best chart I found was this one:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0c/Hominidae.PNG/300px-Hominidae.PNG

There's also a fun bit of info on the topic here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution

Some other info on the discovery of Homo Sapiens fossils (mostly relevant to the young earth discussion): http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0216_050216_omo.html

That article does list some information on the dating method used, 40AR/39AR, which was apparently done using feldspar crystals in the area. Considering that it mentions that it's a variant of Potassium-Argon dating, I'd guess that it's done by measuring the amount of Argon-40 in the feldspar crystal (naturally occuring Potassium-40 decays into Argon-40 with a half-life of 1.250x10^9 years). A webpage with a discussion on P-A dating.
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Re: More proof of evolution
Finally got through page 6. Took me all day. Dam. Starting page 7 (im skipping page 5, wel the 2nd half of it, for now).
Im trying to keep up.

Page 6. Shade: He took every species that was avalible that day and age. Maby not stuff like plankton or fish tho. The simpler versions. Like before dogs interbreeded to make the vast majority of types of dogs there are today. Well, Noah had many many years to work on the Arc with himself, his wife, and his sons\daughters. I think he worked on it for 30+ years maby, but that is a out of the blue guess, as I am not sure. Im thinking maby 100~ years, but im not sure so I wont say that. As for finding every species; he had plenty of time, and its very likely God caused the animals to come to him, or the like, so he could complete his task of captureing every species.
The ‘clean’ animals were taken 7 male and 7 female of each species. The ‘unclean’ were by 3’s. IIRC. Someone mentioned that the bible contradicted itself there. I don’t know what they are talking about, as it is clear of the numbers of each.

Wild F.: Well, adam and eve disobeyed god, they allowed sin to enter the world. Sin, death, sickness, and disease. The deadly viruses and stuff like cancer is a reslut. The spiritual realm often reflects the earthly one, so to speak. Don’t take this out of context.

Nuclear1: The Canopy theory explains this. The canopy served as a shiled, and let only a few of the UV and Gamma rays of the sun, to hit the earth. Light was able to come to the earth, but the bad rays were stopped. This caused people to live near 1000 years. Plants were hudge. Trees were giant also.

(Im not sure about this next segment. But il say it anyways.) On that note, that’s what dinasours were. Large versions of some of the animals. The reptiles anyways.

Man was made by God to live forever and never die. But sin came and our lifes keep getting shorter. Sin affects our gentics over the generations and causes us to live less. It has greater and greater toll on our lifes.

Aldo: No way it could simply dissapear afterwords? Well, I learned this in Kindergarden, but, the world is, what, over 75% water and about 25% actual land? Um.. I wonder how that relates. Hmm. Beats me.

Kara: I must prove a designer is needed before I can claim that? What? Must the pot prove it needs a clay(pot)maker before it can say it was made\designed? Your argument is fallacious.
How does a simple cell one day decide, ‘im going to get more complex’? Take this for example. The beginning cells, when a baby is created, have all the info for ‘what every other cell I make will do’. Each cell has its own job, function, wether to make an ear or eye etc. They do what their programmed to do. The origional cell(s) have all the ‘blueprints’, and it does not simply change them.
Please explain the correct meaning of ‘Natural Selection’, then.
Wasent Radiocarbon dateing said to have been a flawd way of dateing things?
FFS. What I said about ID was not wrong. Prove your soruces. Mine said, well, what I said. There is an intellegent force, not god. They fight christianity and evolution at the same time. Some may be ‘predominately’ christian, but they sure as heck don’t claim they are. They say some being is doing it. Not god. They mean god but they don’t say its ‘god’.

Firecrack: My list does support ID. It does not support evolution. How are they wrong or foolish?
Im not talking about abosilute ages because they go back 100,000 years up to 1 million or billion years. All of them are way past the approx. 10,000 years creationists believe the earth exitsted. So it would be pointless.
Id like to hear more about this ‘different groupings of fossils being in different places’ statement. Im interesed.

Shade: God created the universe basicaly how it is. He created earth in its middle stages already. He made it as if it was there for that long- made the light already be reaching earth. This is a belief based on reasoning, not exactly facts.
How do Evolutionitsts believe the universe began?

Stratcomm: What changes are being made in our own race?
What if the single male and single female had a whole lot of kids?
A good deal of them died at once, because of the flood.
There were animals that died before the flood. Mostlikely a good deal of time before the flood. That explains why their older.
Distributed evenly? Do tornados distribute debree evenly? Its nonsence.

Aldo: I liked your analogy of evolution, as keeping the correct letters for the next generation. Kudos.
Please talk about the ‘pole reversals’ some more. Id like you to explain it in more detail.
“Also it ignores the theory of DNA and protein evolution.”  Explain more please.
“Creationists believe that God created all animals and living things at Creation. Though they may have changed since God created the universe, they didn’t change by natural selection or mutation, but changed within fixed limits. Not nearly as extreme as the Evolutionists believe. So the animals we see today are mainly how God created them at Creation. -Charismatic
Contradicted by fossil evidence. Also fails to explain why God would create something that needed to be changed - isnn't His creation supposed to be perfecT?-Aldo” As I said before, sin entered the earth, stuff changed and happened how it wasent susposed to.  Ect ect ect..
“Here's another thing - how likely is it that an omnipotent and omniscent being just pops into existence, creates the earth, places stuff in the Earth contradicting the story he, she or it tells people, waits several thousand years before making itself known (and allowing the likes of polytheistic Greek, etc religions to toddle on), and makes such a botch job that they need to keep coming back and wiping out or modifying animals?” Once again id like to point out, the first link I gave you guys (not the one in the report). We are comeing at this topic with differences in opinion and biases. You don’t know how certing things make sence, and I do. But the way your portraying these certain thigns I don’t agree with. He was. He didn’t become into existance, as our logic suggests. He did not have parents ect. He just ‘was’. He said “tell them that I AM sent you” IIRC, in one case. We just cant understand this just yet. We are only human and cant comprehend this. He has no contradictions. He made himself known. Adam and Eve knew him. Noah knew him, the others refused to believe in him. Allowing other religons? -Free will. He only wiped us out once. He didn’t need to modify animals.
“Perhaps one of the most important issues - how does the flood explain fossil mineralization? Because, y'see, fossils aren't bones - they're replaced by minerals. We have archeological evidence from biblical and pre-biblical times that shows there's not enough time for this to happen.” Wheres your evidence.

Kara: About ME, maby they were not talking about the timline of the earth. Maby they were.

Turny: “does anyone wanna explain, without using evolution, how there are many different races, all of which a directly descended from a single white (according to many religious paintings) couple?”
Paintings are paintings to make the picutre more socially and culturely pleasing. Their skincolor is unknown and extremely irrevelant. When they had enough decendents, they split up (After the tower of babel, and the newly developed different languages) and went different ways. They form then, in their respective area, over the thousands of years, their physical appearance changed to the respects of their surrondings ect. Skin color, and probably bone structures changed alittle, as iv stated before.
It does not make you God. In the bible it says something to the effect of, “God created us. Everything we create was in effect, created by him; as we are his creation.”

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Re: More proof of evolution
Looks like Charismatic wins.
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