Did Christ teach the accuracy of the Scriptures or the accuracy of evolution?
Did Christ affirm or deny the first man and woman as real people?
Did Christ affirm or deny the great flood?
Did Christ affirm or deny Ten Commandments, including the fourth?
I'm afraid you're asking the wrong person. Those Christians say the things they do. Quite frankly, I don't know how they hold two conflicting world views within their brains simultaneously. But they tell us they do. Please go and ask
them. They are your people.
Beyond that, though, many who claim to be Christians are not.
Someone appointed you as arbiter, did they?
This forum has had a number of posers pretending to be true believers and spewing heresy, as I'm sure every other forum experiences as well. The Westboro church is a good example of hatred and heresy wrapped up as Christianity.
Conspiracy theory noted.
Man cannot simultaneously be created by God from the dust of the earth and evolve from simpler life forms.
Again we have agreement!
The world could not be simultaneously created in six days and in billions of years.
Bravo!
There could not be a global flood and not a global flood. How can you not see the contradiction?
Oh, I see it very well thank you.
Balderdash! The scientific method is a condemnation to the claims of evolution, which cannot be observed, tested or falsified because the premise of it requires millions of years; which can't be replicated in a lab.
You are confusing the process with the evidence. Yes, the process of the descent of species has occurred over many millions of years, but the evidence which describes that process is observed and replicated daily. Every time a new fossil is examined, every time a new species is discovered, every time a genome is mapped out for the first time, every time a particular characteristic is linked to a particular gene.
What do you people have against gravity? Do they teach this in "Evolution indoctrination 101," to attack gravitational theory and the laws of gravity any time someone challenges the absurdity of evolution?
Choose your own theory. Whichever you select, the diatribe you delivered above could equally be made to fit it. You aren't showing a justification for your mistrust of evolutionary theory - you are railing against science generally.
I like that. I think I'll use that line next time someone tries to claim that evolution is true.
Ponder a moment how mindless your comment was.
If there exists no genetic evidence of common descent from animals in existence 4,500 years ago, how can you claim evidence of common descent MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO????
I think you are deliberately obtuse. My comment was to the effect that all evidence refutes the 'ark scenario'.
So you claim.
If I share a common ancestor with a fish, can I regain gills?
If you have
evolved why would you think you had the same characteristics? As it happens, I understand that the genes responsible for gills in fish have expressed themselves as different structures in mammals. I am not an evolutionary biologist, but perhaps one of those present on this site may help here.
If I share a common ancestor with a bird, can I regain flight?
Why would you expect that? Again, my understanding is that we mammals are on an entirely different 'branch' of evolution to that of birds?
If I share a common ancestor with a cat, can I acquire a taste for sushi?
When you have to resort to the ridiculous, what does that say about your argument?
All of these traits should still exist; have to exist because they once existed.
Why? Are you familiar with the concept of a nested hierarchy?
What specific traits do you claim we've magically acquired over the years that aren't a simple matter of adaptation to the environment?
Oh, good grief -
what do you think evolution is, if it isn't change in response to the environment!? Sir, I couldn't have torn your argument down more effectively with a wrecker's ball!
If they don't believe that God created man, then on what do they base their belief? Certainly not on the Scriptures, as that is a rejection of Scripture. Sadly, many listen to heretics and others who claim that God used evolution to create the universe.
And yet, Christians they are. And their numbers within your religion are increasing, while your outmoded ideas are thankfully dying out. I don't have a huge number of years left, but it would be nice to outlive the world's last creationist.
So you believe that the wisdom of God is limited to what He shared with us? You have a strange opinion of God. All knowledge and wisdom come from God. Of course, if you knew anything about the Bible you would know that a lot of things science has learned were alluded to before.
Depending upon your reading - an awful lot of poetic licence is used by some in deciphering those texts.
Have you not thought it strange though, that your all-knowing God
never let us in on any knowledge beyond that of a first century Middle Eastern citizen? Nothing about the great scientific discoveries to come. Nothing about the breakthroughs in health and medicine. Nothing about the coming and going of various empires. Nothing about the discovery of unknown continents and oceans.
It's almost as if the scriptures were simply written by people who knew no better.
Most of them I've met have been lied to or betrayed by people they trusted.
It is a fact that I and others have caught people pretending to be religious, opening a thread questioning evolution, then over the course of the thread becoming an atheist. You can tell because they don't post in any other forum. Some people have done it multiple times under different accounts. One even pretended to be a Biblical scholar and spent every post misquoting, misrepresenting or lying about the Bible. The best way to attack an enemy is from within, so many come to forums like these pretending to be a true believer with the sole intent of promoting their own agenda. I guess they think it makes them seem learned and wise to copy and paste what others have written before them.
And thank you for conspiracy theory Mark II.
