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The Bible makes lots of claims. For example we read in 2Timothy3:13 "evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived."
Not at all. The Bible claims that the wages of sin is death. God does not in anyway encourage people to sin. In fact He encourages us to choose life, health, blessings and prosperity. Still people have free will and they can choose death, sickness, poverty and the curse if that is the choice they want to make. Death is actually the easy choice and that is why so many people are going to perish. Life is the more difficult way. For example if you want good health you have to eat right, exercise and learn how to control your stress. Not everyone wants to take good care of themselves so they can be healthy. Still that is a choice we can all make. Just like if people want to prosper that may involve hard work and getting a good education. For some people that is more effort then it is worth. 2/3 of the people in american choose NOT to get a college education.
I really do not know what you are talking about. You seem to love to quote people out of context. Or twist their words.
Again you twist peoples words to try and come up with a straw-man argument. Paley lived in the 1700's, he died in 1805. Darwin published his book in 1859. Clearly Paley and his argument came first. Darwin's grandfather Erasmus Darwin, was alive at the time of Paley and he was the one to actually argue with Paley himself. Charles just added to his grandfathers argument. A argument that promotes a godless agenda that has been around for a very long time going back to the Greeks. A discussion that we see with Paul in the Bible. Paul use to go to Mars Hill when he was in Athens so that he could preach his sermon and present his beliefs.
No one argues with 101 evolution, and it can be well supported in a court of law. The problem is the conclusions they try to draw from the known evidence. They take truth and error and mix them together. They try to use evidence for micro evolution and apply it to macro evolution and this is little more then a bait and switch attempt to mislead people. Perhaps the real problem is if you want to try to deal with the lies and the deception or the false science then you have to do some research and know a little bit of what you are talking about and for most people that is simply more trouble then what it is worth and they do not have time to mess around with it. I had a friend with a Phd in Biological science. He really did not support evolutionary theory but he was to busy to argue with anyone about it and he did not want to get into the debate or the discussion.
There is no conflict between science and the Bible. The question is what does the Bible teach us and what is true science. The nice thing about science is that true science does just that and seeks to know the truth.
The point is YOU claim that Darwin invented evolution and he did not. It was around long before Darwin. His only contribution was the theory of natural selection. As you well know evolution today is made up of many theory well beyond natural selection. Some of them accepted and some of them are not very well selected.
So you agree with me then that Darwin did not invent evolution. He just helped to rewrite the dictionary to come up with a new definition for the word.
A good example is Francis Collins book "The Language of Life". He tells us that: "The discoveries of the last decade, little known to most of the public, have completely overturned much of what used to be taught in High School Biology".
You have not demonstrated that you have anything to contribute so if you want to quit then no problem.
A good example is Abraham in the Chaldean city of Ur. They mixed astronomy and astrology together. The City of Ur was very advanced in Science in their day. Yet there was a lot of error and Abraham was called out of Ur to separate himself from their error.
Darwin promoted a theory of slow and gradual evolution and that has been shown to be wrong. Eldredge and Gould promoted Punctuated equilibrium.
Yes your right I did not get it right and I grabbed the wrong book off of the shelf. When we need to looking at is: "Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo" by Sean B. Carroll SEAN CARROLL is a professor of molecular biology and genetics so he has the qualifications that you are looking for.
