To all: belief in evolution is a faith and a religion - the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. And worse still to the folly of many it is the word of man (never claims to be otherwise), and is given authority, by some, over the word of God (which the Bible claims to be the word of God).
Here is a great illustration showing the extent of unjustified speculation and unchecked imagination at work within the evolutionary community (on the topic of whale evolution and the development of echolocation):
"...four prerequisites: the ability to produce the sounds, the ability to receive them, the ability to interpret them, and the ability to act on the information. If any one of those traits were missing, echolocation would not work. Think of just a few of the parts involved: phonic lips, sealed chambers, expanding storage sacs, a melon with the right audio characteristics and muscles to focus the sounds, a jaw with teeth and specialized tissues to amplify the echoes, a specialized cochlea that can hear high frequencies, and a brain that knows how to process all that information. How many coordinated mutations would that take?"
Excerpt from:
https://evolutionnews.org/2016/08/early_whale_ech/
On top of all of this, nowhere has it ever been observed, measured, repeated, or results validated where say phonic lips develop, expanding storage sacs emerge, or tissues with specialized to amplify echos materialize. No, no, and no. No to all of it, scientists never ever e-v-e-r observed or have been able to reproduce these results using things like random mutation and natural selection... retaining beneficial changes and discarding useless functions - all orchestrating the ability to perform echolocation. All of it... imagined.
@The Barbarian
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Since your view of God is that He operates confined within the realm of methodical naturalism, I'm going to pose to you the same question I posted in another thread:
How did Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead when He called him out of the tomb? My view is that God can and will work in supernatural ways and can create a universe that is billions of light years wide in a day, can create life in a day, can raise the dead to life, and does all with His living and all-powerful word... so while I cannot explain it in human scientific terms, I believe Jesus simply only had to call out, "Lazarus, come out!" that this is what raised Lazarus to life... but let's see how you scientifically explain this for everyone here - or perhaps like others you will waffle back and forth: that Jesus did do miracles, but used only natural means for all of creation - even though His word tells us that creation was just as miraculous as raising the dead to life and both are written as matter-of-fact, it happened.
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Jesus and every OT/NT author in the Bible all affirm the events of Genesis as historical so this isn't some desperate grasping at straws by a few weirdos in the theological community. It was what was always believed until some started to stray from this understanding. You seriously think that the 4th commandment about the Sabbath was written (by God... on stone... twice) because creation was a period that spanned billions of years?? Here is the 4th commandment:
“the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates” (
Exodus 20:10).
Moving onto the next verse:
"For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy." (
Exodus 20:11).
So, from the very beginning when God revealed this truth, it was understood that God made heaven and earth and this was all in 6 days (regardless of what Darwin or Lyell believed... or what you believe).