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The evidence for Evolution.

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I'm just pointing out that the vast majority of Christians belong to sects that acknowledge evolution is consistent with our faith.
If that's true, I'll bet the vast majority of their hymn books say "Cross," instead of "Blood."
 
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To bring up the past is to bring up one state or another. In any case you have no proof for it.
As for Jesus forming man from the dust of the earth, there is no reason to doubt it.

Again you are just trying to muddy the issue. It doesn't matter which state it was - there was dust which you claim we came from. Thus, I conclude that you have no knowledge of science!
 
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Eternal life is a gift of Jesus to all that ask. We have it now. We will continue to have that gift when we leave our bodies.

Of course, you can't actually hear from anyone who has left their body, so they can't confirm to you that they did, after all, really get to keep it.
 
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The forces that govern atoms indeed may have been different. How would we know whether there was other forces at work also that affected the atomic world? How would we know if the nuclear forces were exactly the same and etc??

If they were so different, how could they form things that would continue to exist after the change of state?
 
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Again you are just trying to muddy the issue.
You're close.

It was "dust of the ground" -- not necessarily mud.
KTS said:
It doesn't matter which state it was - there was dust which you claim we came from.
He's right.
KTS said:
Thus, I conclude that you have no knowledge of science!
Either that, or you have no knowledge of theology.
 
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Because human life itself would not be possible if the changes that you want to happen occurred. And you need to show that there would be no evidence of such a change. Actual scientists disagree with you.
Nonsense. Since you do not know what changed you have NO WAY of saying that.
 
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Nonsense. Since you do not know what changed you have NO WAY of saying that.
dad, we have been through this before. If the fundamental laws of physics chanfe then the laws of chemistry change. And life is a series of chemical reactions. You are not kept alive by magic.

Just because you don't know does not mean that others don't know. You are projecting your faults upon others.
 
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Again you are just trying to muddy the issue. It doesn't matter which state it was - there was dust which you claim we came from. Thus, I conclude that you have no knowledge of science!
You insinuate that science would be responsible or at least involved in man being formed from the mud. No. Not at all.
 
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Of course, you can't actually hear from anyone who has left their body, so they can't confirm to you that they did, after all, really get to keep it.
Moses and Elijah appeared to John and Peter and jesus on a mountain. Jesus confirmed Abraham was still alive also, and said He is not a God of the dead but the living. John also saw heaven opened, and many prophets saw angels etc etc.
 
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If they were so different, how could they form things that would continue to exist after the change of state?
Easy. Just because some unseen force or law was somewhat different, does not mean it made everything vanish! It could mean that the end result of those forces acting on stuff just made the stuff somewhat different in nature.
 
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Easy. Just because some unseen force or law was somewhat different, does not mean it made everything vanish! It could mean that the end result of those forces acting on stuff just made the stuff somewhat different in nature.
We are not saying that. But the changes you would want would grossly change chemistry . There could not have been an Adam and Eve in your changed world.
 
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If that's true, I'll bet the vast majority of their hymn books say "Cross," instead of "Blood."

For most of us, what counts is in the Bible, not some hymn book.
 
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We are not saying that. But the changes you would want would grossly change chemistry . There could not have been an Adam and Eve in your changed world.

This is the part that a lot of creationists don't get. If the world was changed to fit their expectations, there never would have been any humans or even any life of the sort we know.
 
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Theology tells me nothing useful about the world. Science does.
Are you atheists/agnostics still using this? Come on now, surely someone has educated you what Science does? Does real Science show you Macroevolution? Nope no proof? Instead you rely on Micro/speciation to make it a whole theory. Boy did Darwin surely made a number out of you guys lol.

Have you noticed the fossils found in Egypt recently? Yep major breakthrough, they roamed with man exactly what the bible has said. There is no way they built that pyramid by man power.

Line up unbelievers because the truth of GOD is real...and also the lake of fire...sorry I needed to remind you of that.
 
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Are you atheists/agnostics still using this?

So do Christians. Theology shows you how to get to heaven, not how the heavens go, as one Christian put it.

Come on now, surely someone has educated you what Science does?

It's just a method for learning about the physical world. It's like plumbing. It has nothing to do with theology, and theology can't tell you how to repair your pipes.

Does real Science show you Macroevolution?

Yep. First directly observed speciation was about 1908, I think.

Instead you rely on Micro/speciation

Micro evolution is evolution within a species. Macroevolution is speciation.

Have you noticed the fossils found in Egypt recently? Yep major breakthrough, they roamed with man exactly what the bible has said. There is no way they built that pyramid by man power.

If you think so, you don't know much about mechanics. Tell us which fossils you're talking about, and what you think they say about evolution.
 
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Does real Science show you Macroevolution? Nope no proof? Instead you rely on Micro/speciation to make it a whole theory.
Macroevolution from microevolution is like saying an ape left Boston, took baby steps and arrived in L.A. as a man.
 
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