Recent content by Didaskomenos

Good thread, thanks. I've got a question of my own. What is the "copyright" for icons? I realize that most living iconographers are professional and wouldn't want their icons copied or sold without their permission. But every now and then I find lovely images of icons that I know have been in...

Ha, yeah, now that you mention it! I wonder how long ago they changed it.

Hi all! I joined the forums in 2002. I was active on them for the next 4 years or so, but eventually "fell away" so to speak (but I did always appreciate the happy birthday emails from Erwin!). This place, especially the crevo and bibliology forums, significantly contributed to my theological...

In a college town (where else?), I saw a Jesus fish and a Darwin fish nose to nose, as though they were kissing. Thought that was an interesting way of starting a conversation with folks of many different stripes.

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I think that Adam is the only purely mythological/legendary character. Even though Noah's story is mythological, I tend to believe there was some person in Hebrew pre-history with that name, to whom the story of the Flood became attached. Nevertheless, I voted non-historical for both Adam and...

Thanks, guys. I think the point is made.

I have a friend who pointed me to this article http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/arti...1309990017&cid It's the study that said that the universe inflated in less than a trillionth of a second. My friend then demands to know how all that mass could have travelled faster than light. My...

I meant to post this in the Creation & Evolution forum. Please consult the thread by this name in that forum.

Shernren, I'll give you my final thoughts sometime before Monday.

If your problem with the "ladder" analogy is that it suggests our ancestors' conscious decision to scale through biological mutations to reach the point we are at, I agree. If you took issue with an intimation that evolution is teleological, there is no argument there either. But my hunch is...

I'll look at it, Shernren.

The biggest problem for them seems to be with Jesus' comment, "from the beginning He made them male and female". Also, for those of us who don't see a literal first man Adam, they are puzzled as to what we should do with Paul's comments about sin entering the world through "one man". For those...