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It did not happen. The only evidence is the conclusion you reach looking at the raw data. Others have a different conclusion. Evidence that works against you is the whole notion of benevolent mutations advancing a species. It doesn't happen. Mutations occur, but the species never advances. Over 100 years later, fruit flies are still fruit flies.
Most evolution proponents got their indoctrination from professors or teachers. You don't see many molecular biologists on here.
God created the world and told us how He did it. Man has a 6,000 year history of interacting with God. Most evolution proponents deny that history.
That's where we will never agree. You put the theories of man above the word of God. The fact is, evolution is 100% opposite of the Scriptures. You cannot possibly believe one without rejecting the other.
The unfortunate consequence of the invasion is the police and military were removed. Anarchy reigned for almost three years because there was no one to keep order. Almost by accident the US Army, learned what needed to happen. They would clear a neighborhood rooting out the insurrectionists. When they left they would return leaving them to have to go back and do it again. Occasionally, they would leave a squad are perhaps larger element in certain areas and the insurrectionists were far less likely to return. Americans often, in those situations, will bring in materials and such and as a result the locals would point out where the insurrections were staying. The CG of the mission at the Victory Base Complex finally said he wanted these soldiers off the FOB and on the streets, the result was what became known as the surge. I was there in 2006 when this happened and instead of gate 2 getting hit every night and rockets coming in regularly there was silence. In the wake of the surge President Bush visited the Al Anbar region.
It's not. It's about people who call themselves Christians standing with the forces of evil in attacking the Bible as a book of myths from bronze aged goat herders.
Who is "you people?"
Jesus and Paul said the Bible was the word of God. I don't consider either of them untruthful.
Christians who accept evolution are simply wrong. Christians who PROFESS evolution are teaching false doctrine.
The church until recently taught that the Bible was true. Only recently did some replace foundational doctrine with lies of molecules to man.
The Bible, because you're attacking it.
Six days is a shadow and a type. God could have created the Garden if Eden in 6 literal days. I believe all the creation theories are true from their own perspective.
As I said before, I don't think anyone here does that. You YECs don't, because you don't belief in Apostolic tradition. Those of us who do believe in Apostolic Tradition don't think it transmits a particular interpretation of Genesis.
Adam and Eve lived to be around 1,000 years. I have researched the cause of death for pre Adam and Eve people and everyone I found died from an accident or they were killed with an arrow or some sort of a hunting weapon. For example the death of Cheddar Man remains a mystery, but a hole in his skull suggests violence. Kennewick man looks to have died from a stone projectile lodged in the ilium. The projectile was made from a siliceous gray stone that was found to have igneous (intrusive or volcanic) origins.
And those "forces of evil" include not only evolutionists, atheists, and non-Christians, but Christians who reject evolution but also reject your Bible doctrine. Got it.
YECs.
That is what most Christians teach, even those who reject your YEC Bible doctrine.
And Christians who reject evolution and also reject your Bible doctrine are wrong and teaching false doctrine as well. Got it.
By foundational doctrine I presume you mean the literal inerrancy of of scripture. Some churches never taught such a thing, so there was nothing to "replace" and they rejected evolution anyway.
How do you know that Adam had no predecessors? Before you answer, please be sure you understand the Jewish approach to story-telling.
Since you were there--my respects to you BTW--I will take your word for it. But I can't believe there was no rejoicing among the Fundamentalist missionaries sent to "convert" indigenous Christians when they heard of it.
Biblical scholarship. And, of course, Genesis is not as important to us as it is to you. One thing Apostolic Tradition does tell us is that we are fallen, sinners in need of redemption in Christ, so determining the "how" of it looms less large. In fact, the YEC preoccupation with Genesis always struck me as rather odd, made me wonder if you are not, perhaps, all Dispensationalists.
Ladies and gents: witness the rhetorical art of the creationist. When presented with things that annoy them - such as the demonstrable fact that the Jews have a long-established tradition of using literary device to make theological points - how does the creationist respond?
