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Although we don't know, a good current hypothesis is that eukaryotes evolved from the capture of prokaryotic cells in other prokaryotic cells. However it happened eukaryotic cells, like multi-cellular organisms have higher modularity. Modularity is a very common tendency of evolving systems...

Van - thanks for the thoughtful posts. Presumably you would say that we have no way of understanding why God choose to sacrifice his son then. We just have to trust that this was the best way because it was the way he chose? That is the heart of the question and seems to go against the other...

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The inverted 5-pointed star is also used to represent the star of Bethlehem. The downward pointing angle representing the presence of God on earth. Maybe the Republicans think McCain is the messiah?

Also remember that when the first tithe was established Israel was a religious state, and so the tithe was the tax system. By the time of Jesus the additional roman taxes were obviously causing some problems, because Jews felt like they were being called on twice (hence the question to Jesus on...

Sorry to hear that - I wasn't trying to debate. I get asked questions like the OP because people know I was a Christian and know I have a theology degree. Most of the time I can answer from a Christian perspective, but in this case biblical inerrancy was never my theology so I couldn't. I am...

It has been suggested by various theologians that God exists in a metadivine realm. In other words God exists in some framework that gives him power, limits his power, moderates it, or some such. For example. In our universe 1+1=2. This may be a feature of creation ordained by God. Or it could...

Oh okay...sorry... I didn't mean to give the impression I was witnessing or debating. Just conversing. I am an ex-Christian, so I'm hardly the best person to evangelize. But even when I was a Christian, I found that Paul's Mars Hill approach was the best: meet and engage with people where they...

Did you have an argument? I must have missed it. Only thing I clocked was you wanting to 'heat up the board'. Your OP contained a question for evolutionary theists. I'm not one. I'm responding to the provocative quotation from Humphries and the solace that young-earthers mistakenly draw from...

The speed of a racing grayhound is simply offscale to the speed of a teacup Chihuahua... The scale isn't important, it is the structure and mechanism by which they are supported. A chihuahua is the same species as a grayhound: they both have idential locomotive biology. They just differ in...

Exactly right. For exactly the same reason I am not the child of my parents.

The problem comes in taking the non-uniformity of time to be somehow supportive of the position that 'old earth' measurements might be wrong. Roughly equivalent to suggesting that because Bill Gates holds a lot of his fortune in stock that is constantly changing value, any figure on his net...

I wasn't debating, I was conversing. We are both well aware of each others beliefs, and we both have an interest in theology. I'd say limiting your conversation with anyone who doesn't agree with you solely to attempts to convert them is rude, shallow and lonely.

Interesting... The RCC in Vatican 2 stopped short of claiming biblical inerrancy, prefering an approach that said the original meaning was inerrant, but the authorship was human and therefore interpretation mayvary. Ultimately 'correct' interpretation is the responsibility of the magisterium.

I was asked by a long-time atheist why (some) Christians believe in the inerrancy of the bible. I quoted the usual couple of verses: and But not and never having believed in inerrancy myself I wasn't able to go much beyond that. But that doesn't make sense, said the atheist... Textbooks are...

Yes, for many reasons. And not just at different apparent rates, but different actual rates relative to one another. The one Humphries is concerned with is gravitational time dilation. It was predicted by Einstein, first observed by Pound and Rebka and has been validated to very fine accuracy...

Au contraire.. that's exactly what evolution says. We evolved directly from apes. We evolved directly from primates. We evolved directly from mammals. We evolved directly from vertibrates, from animals, from eukaryotes... Birds don't evolve into mammals, animals don't evolve into plants...

Humans are more intelligent than any of the other great apes, on any measure of intelligence you'd care to name. Greyhounds are faster than poodles, Gizzlies stronger than Kodiacs, Owls have better nightvision than Kestrels. I have three times as many degrees as both my parents put together...

Nope. Humphreys for more than 10 years has decided to do his 'science' in the form of self-publishing leaflets with the same arguments in and giving lectures to churches. The tenets of his theory, that using a specific kind of metric in general relativity could give gravitational time...

yada...yada...yada And once again Humphreys fails to make any explicit predictions using his model, and the real world sails by without even noticing... This science malarky is really quite simple: find some experiment that hasn't been done yet, that could distinguish between your hypothesis...