Evolution Promotes Brutality

[DogmaHunter]

I don't claim they did. But the conclusions are close enough for me.
I always have to do my own re-checking.

Tens of thousands of years apart is "close enough"?

 

[DogmaHunter]

And how would you test your conclusions?
This requires a "known standard" against
which one checks the accuracy of assumptions.

It is tested every day with every DNA patternity test.

In evolutionary history in "deep time", it is corroborated every day with every newly discovered species, with the geographic distribution of species, with the fossil record, with comparative anatomy,...

Here's a fun national geographic project, which traces migration paths of your ancestors based on nothing but a blind DNA sample of yourself:

https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/

Genetics. It works.

 

[DogmaHunter]

What is the purpose of staying alive?

Not dieing.

How does matter benefit from being alive?

You don't care wheter you live or die?
Why does a deer run from a lion?

What properties in nonliving matter suggest
it should turn into living matter?

"should"?
What are you talking about?

 

[DogmaHunter]

God, being Spirit, is only concerned with your Spirit.
In God's book, He's only referring to animals with Spirit.
Plants are not included in His definition of death.

I note that you require changing the meaning of words in order to stick to your story.

In any case, if you get to make up a new definition of "death" to not include the deaths of plants, why not go a step further and make it not include the death of animals either?

At least then you don't have to defend the ridiculous proposition that a crockodile and T-rex were herbivores.......

 

[DogmaHunter]

Adam and Eve were real people but they are also a shadow and a type. Jesus teached using parables. He was clearly the greatest teacher that ever lived. We learn in this story how God does what He does. In this case the lesson is common ancestor and science can confirm it it true that we all come from a common ancestor. Abram was told: "you will be called Abraham, for you will be the father of many nations". That is exactly what happened. Abraham became the father or common ancestor of many nations.

Once more... science does not, in any way, say that all humans are descendends from a single couple.

To my knowledge, there is only a genetic bottleneck in the human genome at around the time of the eruption of the Toba volcano. Without looking it up, from memory, I think this was around 70.000 years ago. But even then, this bottleneck is estimated to be around 2000 individuals. Which is a very small population. Populations of that size are generally considered to be in danger of extinction.

But humanity survived it.

But please note: 2000 individuals. That's about the smallest size that human population ever was. There were never "just 2" (or 8, when god hit the reset button with the flood).

Moreover, 2 (or 8) is a biologically unsustainable population. Populations of that size are doomed to extinction.


But hey.... don't let reality get in your way.

 

[JackRT]

The Neanderthal people occupied most of Eurasia and scientists have estimated that there never were more than about 25,000 of them.

 

[DogmaHunter]

I went ahead and looked it up.

It seems I am conflating 2 different things here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck#Humans

There was a bottle-neck that could have reduced human (= homo sapiens) population to about 2000 individuals, but most likely it was not due to a sudden catastrophic event, but rather a much longer period of "dificulty" for the species for more circumstantial reasons (fierce competition, food shortage, slow climate change, etc.. a combination of factors).

Population size began to expand again with the stone age.

In any case, the deeper point remains untouched: there never were "only 2 or 8" homo sapiens in our ancestral history.

 

[Oafman]

Has God allowed brutality to be the means for many lifeforms to exist for such a long period of time?

I don't think so. How about you?

No, I don't think so either

 

[Larniavc]

There are many true Christians who have accepted that life on Earth evolved over millions of years.

In particular, lifeforms have been around for over 200 million years which have continuously lived by biting and devouring other lifeforms.

Has God allowed brutality to be the means for many lifeforms to exist for such a long period of time?

I don't think so. How about you?

It seem immediately obvious that God HAS allowed brutal means for many lifeforms to exist for such a long period of time.

Whether one believes in God or not, the fact is that when we look at nature it is red in tooth and claw. God after all sat down one day and built parasitoids.

So whether it was evolution or God bringing these organisms into existance, naturally or by constant tinkering, or not it is the same state of affairs.

 

[Heissonear]

What does that mean?
What food did they eat?

Please try to be specific here, because you are not making any sense to me.

Dogma, were you there, in the Garden with Adam and Eve?

If not, then there will be many things you will not know in this life time about such a place.

 

[Loudmouth]

Dogma, were you there, in the Garden with Adam and Eve?

If not, then there will be many things you will not know in this life time about such a place.

Were you there?

 

[Hoghead1]

It's a given that nobody was back there then, directly observing a six-day creation or the Big Bang or anything like that. So let's get off this kind of arguing.

 

[AV1611VET]

It's a given that nobody was back there then, directly observing a six-day creation or the Big Bang or anything like that. So let's get off this kind of arguing.

At the Great White Throne Judgment, if He wants to, Jesus will take unbelievers back in time to 4004 BC and show them what really happened.

 

[Hoghead1]

What on earth id the Great White Throne Judgment? And why 4004 B.C. That date was never stated by Usher. It was, however, stated by his followers. Additional attempts to use the Bible as a measuring standard have yielded other, conflicting dates. So 4004 is really in question.

 

[AV1611VET]

What on earth id the Great White Throne Judgment?

Solid aurum.

 

[Hoghead1]

JackTR, where did you get the idea there were only 25,000 of them?

 

[SepiaAndDust]

JackTR, where did you get the idea there were only 25,000 of them?

I would also like a cite, please.

 

[SkyWriting]

Tens of thousands of years apart is "close enough"?

Says who?

 

[SkyWriting]

What are you talking about?

I'm asking WHY living matter has an advantage over non-living matter.
What would CAUSE non-living matter to change?
How is living better than being inanimate?
What chemical reason does life exist?
What thermal reason does life exist?
What electrical reason does life exist?

? -In what way do these following properties point toward life forming:

absorption
albedo
area
brittleness
boiling point
capacitance
color
concentration
density
dielectric constant
ductility
distribution
efficacy
electric charge
electrical conductivity
electrical impedance
electrical resistivity
electric field
electric potential
emission
flexibility
flow rate
fluidity
frequency
inductance
intrinsic impedance
intensity
irradiance
length
location
luminance
luster
malleability
magnetic field
magnetic flux
mass
melting point
moment
momentum
permeability
permittivity
pressure
radiance
solubility
specific heat
resistivity
reflectivity
spin
strength
temperature
tension
thermal conductivity
velocity
viscosity
volume
wave impedance

 

[JackRT]

JackTR, where did you get the idea there were only 25,000 of them?

I am sorry that I cannot give a direct citation. I recall reading that in an article in a journal some 15 or 20 years ago.