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God Evolved

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The proof that God exist is in the fact that spontaneous evolution of life is not possible in this universe. God evolved, then He created. From the Subatomic and the primordial Dark Matter. A type of nothing, because it has no atomic bonds to form anything. God created gravity and gravitons to form the atomic elements of this Universe.
You're confused between evolution which requires that life already DOES exist and abiogenesis which is the creation of life from non-life. You use the word, "spontaneous" but nobody ever said it was "spontaneous" except for you. You say, "God evolved." A single organism cannot evolve. Evolution happens BETWEEN generations. You say that God then created. "from subatomic and the primordial Dark Matter." You don't know what you're talking about. It most certainly is not a type of nothing. Please... stop.

Dark Matter is undifferentiated material which has no atomic bonds, this would make it of no particular substance. In other words, it is Nothing. And if you are willing to accept it, it is primordial, and God's store house for creating the universe from "Nothing."
Again, you have no idea what you're talking about. Please stop.

Dark Matter is accepted by the mainstream scientific community. The existence and properties of dark matter are inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter, on radiation, and on the large-scale structure of the universe. The presence of dark matter in the universe, including gravitational lensing of background objects by galaxy clusters such as the Bullet Cluster, the temperature distribution of hot gas in galaxies and clusters of galaxies and, more recently, the pattern of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background.
There are no properties of Dark Matter. There is only the existence of it based upon the gravitational effects. You can't infer the properties that you're inferring and then add the nonsense that you're adding to it from the fact that there is more matter in the universe than we can see.

According to cosmologists, dark matter is composed primarily of a not yet characterized type of subatomic particle.
No. If there is a different type of particle it can only make up a small amount of Dark Matter.


The missing links are missing because life did not evolve in this Universe.
No. Once again you misuse the term evolve. Please actually READ the things you link to.

And you also don't understand what the Universe is.

Just... stop.
 
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Man said that Yahshua said "I am."


In the Greek and Hebrew there is the word "I," but there is no such words as "I am."

"I am" is an interpretation for "I Lived" also here in John 8. I Lived" is the trans-literal.

No. The Greek verb εἰμῐ́ means "to be". The English "am" is the first person singular present indicative form of "be", just as the Greek verb εἰμῐ́ is the first person singular present indicative form. As such "am" is a literal translation.

The Greek phrase Jesus utters is ἐγὼ εἰμί, literally "I am", if you want you could translate it as "I be", or "I exist"; but "I am" is a literal rendering of it into English. And it is the precise phrase the LXX uses in Exodus 3:14,

καὶ εἶπεν ὁ θεὸς πρὸς Μωυσῆν ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ὤν καὶ εἶπεν οὕτως ἐρεῖς τοῖς υἱοῖς Ισραηλ ὁ ὢν ἀπέσταλκέν με πρὸς ὑμᾶς

You can make an argument that the intent isn't to allude to Exodus 3:14, but you can't make the argument that Jesus didn't use the phrase "I am" (ἐγὼ εἰμί), because it's right there in the text for anyone to see.

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Source: Code Sinaiticus, c. 330-360 AD, searchable manuscript here: Codex Sinaiticus - See The Manuscript | John |

-CryptoLutheran
 
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Spontaneous generation of life is the process by which living organisms develop from nonliving matter, about at the same time frame.

The term spontaneous is used to describe the variety of life that came about at nearly the same time.
 
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Spontaneous generation of life is the process by which living organisms develop from nonliving matter, about at the same time frame.

The term spontaneous is used to describe the variety of life that came about at nearly the same time.
It's not, I think, a term that would be used by biologists to describe the process of abiogenesis. I have read dozens of books on abiogenesis and hundreds of papers and I do not recall any of them using the term in that way. Why? Because it would be misleading. Spontaneous suggests and event occuring in a restricted time frame - your words: "about at nearly the same time". Abiogenesis was a process that extended over millions, probably hundreds of millions, of years.
 
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The key is the word "formed." Absolutely anything that has no beginning does not exist. God says that He is the FIRST AND THE LAST. Therefore He Began. That is why His name means "Life Began."
Because it is in regards to men.

HE is before all things and it is by HIM
all things exist

No way around it :

Our beginning
And our end is in HIM
And in regards to HIM:

I AM means the same, from beginning to end...no moving from one point to the other. Complete, perfect.
 
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Astronomers detect dark matter though the effect of its gravity on the path that light takes as it crosses the Universe. As light travels through a region of dark matter, its path gets distorted by gravity. Instead of taking a straight line, the light is bent back and forth depending on how much dark matter is passes through.

Astronomers can map out regions of dark matter in the sky just by looking at the distortions in the light, and then working backwards to figure out how much intervening dark matter would need to be there to cause it.

After the creation of the Universe the Earth was later created by God. Before there was a firmament it was a formless body of water. The bible does not state how much time had passed before the creation of the Earth.
You said in your above post:

Before there was a firmament it was a formless body of water......


AND?????

As the word says and completes your above statement in genesis 1:

And The SPIRIT of GOD hovered over the waters


HE was there from the beginning
 
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If IT, is a HE, then HE, evolved. Sexual dipmorphism is a result of millions of years of evolution.
What is perfect and unchanging remains perfect and unchanging

Not so with men
But only with GOD
 
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It's not, I think, a term that would be used by biologists to describe the process of abiogenesis. I have read dozens of books on abiogenesis and hundreds of papers and I do not recall any of them using the term in that way. Why? Because it would be misleading. Spontaneous suggests and event occuring in a restricted time frame - your words: "about at nearly the same time". Abiogenesis was a process that extended over millions, probably hundreds of millions, of years.
That is what the term meant when it first came out. The Evolutionist did not like it, so they changed the meaning. The first use is the correct understanding, because life forms came to be at the same time; then when many of those died out, many others suddenly sprang into being. That is not proof of Evolution, but creation.
 
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That is what the term meant when it first came out. The Evolutionist did not like it, so they changed the meaning. The first use is the correct understanding, because life forms came to be at the same time; then when many of those died out, many others suddenly sprang into being. That is not proof of Evolution, but creation.
Life forms didn't come at the same time...
 
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I am speaking of the term "Spontaneous Generation."
The idea of 'spontaneous generation' was experimentally refuted by Louis Pasteur in 1859 and that was more rigorously confirmed by John Tyndall. Read all about it: Spontaneous Generation.
 
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