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Evolution Promotes Brutality

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Did Paul warn about people calling themselves "wise"?

Yes, he does.

Does evolution have people calling themselves "wise"?

From a taxonomic point of view, yes it does.
From a moral/theological/philosophical view point, no it doesn't.
From the view of biological science, no it doesn't

Do Christians who deconvert, deconvert to evolution?

Red Herring. Evolution is a scientific statement of facts of the world around us. It is not a religious viewpoint. You cannot convert from Christianity to evolution no more than you can convert from being right handed to being left handed. Yes that doesn't make sense, but neither does your last question.
 
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Then how is it that verse seems to be tailor-made for followers of Linnaeus today?

It's not. In your anti-science rhetoric, you're twisting the Bible to fit your own thoughts, something which I'm quite sure the Bible says not to do.
You're the one who is professing themselves to be wise when you most certainly are not.
 
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It's not. In your anti-science rhetoric, you're twisting the Bible to fit your own thoughts, something which I'm quite sure the Bible says not to do.
If you're such an expert on how to properly interpret the Bible, why are you a deist?
Warden_of_the_Storm said:
You're the one who is professing themselves to be wise...
No, I am not.

Paul is talking about those who profess themselves to be wise.

Romans 1:22a Professing themselves to be wise,
 
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Then how is it that verse seems to be tailor-made for followers of Linnaeus today?
Pareidolia. Unfortunately it's a new psychological understanding within the last two thousand years, so your religious myopia might impede your awareness.
 
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If you're such an expert on how to properly interpret the Bible, why are you a deist?

Because I am. Show me the rule that says people who can read the Bible and interpret it's message HAVE to call themselves Christians?

No, I am not. Paul is talking about those who profess themselves to be wise.
Romans 1:22a Professing themselves to be wise,
You believe that you know more than the scientists along with all of the people on this sub-forum who have knowledge about science. You believe that you are wiser than all of them. You just refuse to say it out-loud.
Luke 16:15 - "And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts:"
 
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You believe that you know more than the scientists along with all of the people on this sub-forum who have knowledge about science. You believe that you are wiser than all of them. You just refuse to say it out-loud.
You don't know me very well, do you?
 
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So 2011 then.
No -- last April.

He last posted in 2007.

(Unless he posted after that and it was removed -- which I doubt.)

He currently posts here under another name though.

As does Nathan Poe.
 
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Because evolution teaches deep time.

Because evolution says we came from a common ancestor.

Because evolution says we are a fetus, not a child.

Because evolution teaches the fight-or-flight response.

Why do you persist in telling lies, AV?
 
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