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A virtual study in false premises. I'm not "side-stepping" anything mate, I'm just not dancing to your tune. I've asked many hard-hitting questions here today, and you and your friends have not really answered them, so who's side-stepping? Industries that "rely on deep time and...

At last, a voice of sanity, heard above the cacophonous din. Thanks.

Creationism is a view of the origin of life and the universe, just as Evolution is. Both are, thus, philosophical constructs. Neither works very well as a tool for making short-term predictions. Billions of dollars have been invested in pro-evolution research. If it can be argued that the...

Just give me a scenario for how birds evolved from reptiles. The sloth thing was a joke, Mallon. A joke, okay? Is a little levity okay here? "Beneficial mutations only need to occur in one or two individuals in order for them to propagate through a population." No, that doesn't work. Because...

You've just cited a gaggle of supposed examples of "beneficial" mutations. You're just claiming all this is so without demonstrating or proving a single one. Sorry, but mutations simply don't fill the bill for a mechanism or engine to drive upward lurching (why it was always or predominately...

Come on Mallon, you can do better than this. I looked at the "paper" which turns out to be a short abstract that makes a claim but does not substantiate it. Here's a quote from the abstract: "Although EAC has been suggested as a common process in functional evolution, definitive cases of...

(my emphasis) This is really pretty funny stuff. Your friends need to explain to you that such ad hominem attacks fall into a category of logical fallacy, meaning they have no force whatever in logical argument, besides which they are rude and out of place in a forum such as this that calls...

This is a melange of fact (Creationists are discriminated against) and flights of fancy ("paralyzing effects..." that's really a gas; no foundation in fact). And reiterating "creationism doesn't work" ad nauseum is pretty lame when it's evolution that patently doesn't do what it claims to (like...

Logic? Coherency even? You had a "go" with me? What kind of language is that? I "preach" and you don't? My imagination? If you fancy another "go" with me I hope you will do me the courtesy of staying on topic. The quotation I responded to was totally unsubstantiated and uncalled for...

"the creationist campaign against science is really dangerous." This is classic befuddlement logic. First you set up a strawman, viz. "there is a 'creationist' campaign against science." Well, that's a cinch because setting up a strawman is about as intellectually challenging as pouring...

Well, Rosemary of Tap O'Noth, that sounds absolutely idyllic. I could do with some of your excellent air. I see you're 20 miles or more from the North Sea, so I would suspect you can't quite see that far, but tell me if I'm wrong. Yes, Scotland has a wonderful church history, going back to John...

Welcome Rosemary Duncan from Aberdeenshire! I'm probably one of the very few Reformed Baptists lurking hereabouts, but I usually stay pretty quiet about my view on baptism (in the NT, only believers got it and they got it by dunking), because I'm very "presbyterian" otherwise, even when it...

Belated happy birthday, and good to hear a good report from you. You've been in my prayers. I'm praying that you might meet one or two Christian guys near your age. Glad you're keeping in touch with us old warbirds here. Or maybe I should just speak for myself. "No temptation has overtaken...

I'm insulting, when both of these responders say that I'm "unqualified" to have educated views, blithely accusing me of arguing "from incredulity and god-of-the-gaps theology?" But this reflects a mentality rampant in our society today, namely what I might call "expertolatry," i.e. the notion...

I'm really quite amazed at the levels of condescension I'm encountering here. That you guys all deny the monolithic stranglehold which the evolution lobby has on public education (not to mention the media and pop science culture, where you can't talk about a rat in a rainstorm without...

"False dichotomy and guilt by association?" I suppose these high-sounding expressions from the field of logic are supposed to have the impact of great artillery rounds falling on my perilous position, whereas in fact, they fall far short of the mark. Maybe you could just point out an explicit...

Appeal to my TE brothers (and sisters?): Any of us who went through public high school in the last half century had to sit through hours and hours of "evolution is science backed by tons and tons and tons of evidence" indoctrination. To level the playing field, and counter this one-sidedness...

Son, you just put an enormous smile on my old face. I had trouble getting to sleep last night, and spent some time praying for you and other young men struggling to get free of the clutches of the world and sin and to walk with the Lord. Stay in touch, Thomas, and let us all here know how things go.

Good morning, Thomas. I'm praying for you. Yeah, sorry we don't live down the street. But at least with Patrick and me you get to see our ugly mugs! (jk) But, seriously, you may not think so, but you actually have some things to be thankful for. If nothing else, try to thank God today that...

Renegade: Read your story with interest because I have felt much as you do, though with a twist: I committed many very evil sins years after I became a Christian, and was only delivered (in the main) from the worst of my besetting (addicted-to) sins some 16 months ago when I was diagnosed with...