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Mutations mean change. That's all. If a mutation means only damage, what happens when a subsequent mutation restores the original DNA?
Well, the reality is that they can and do.
I don't believe what I want to believe: I believe what I have evidence to be true.You can believe whatever you want to believe.
Posting falsehoods about genetics does not help people lurking and questioning, nor does it do anything to promote God's word.I already know that you and I have nothing in common over this topic. I am simply here to make sure that God's word is seen on this board by people lurking and questioning.
I don't believe what I want to believe: I believe what I have evidence to be true.
Posting falsehoods about genetics does not help people lurking and questioning, nor does it do anything to promote God's word.
Science - including the fossil record - helps us understand that Genesis is not meant to be read literally. Genesis is simply saying God was responsible for creating the universe and life on earth ... trying to squeeze scientific facts out of the text is a mistake.The only 'evidence' you have is of the fallen world, no one has access to the world as God created it.
I am not posting any falsehoods about genetics, God gave us his word and what we know comes from that. He created kinds and all animals came from them.
Genesis 1:21
21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:24-2624 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
In light of the fossil record, the "kinds" are not what God initially created, but what the writer of Genesis saw existing in his time - in other words, the creatures we see NOW.The only 'evidence' you have is of the fallen world, no one has access to the world as God created it.
I am not posting any falsehoods about genetics, God gave us his word and what we know comes from that. He created kinds and all animals came from them.
Genesis 1:21
21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:24-2624 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Science - including the fossil record - helps us understand that Genesis is not meant to be read literally. Genesis is simply saying God was responsible for creating the universe and life on earth ... trying to squeeze scientific facts out of the text is a mistake.
In light of the fossil record, the "kinds" are not what God initially created, but what the writer of Genesis saw existing in his time - in other words, the creatures we see NOW.
It's impossible for science to ever know exactly what happened before Adam and the Bible doesn't attempt to tell us bcoz it's irrelevant. Instead, the Bible presents the pre-Adamic past as a story that is theologically correct, but not scientifically correct. The theology is all God needs us to know.Science is mankind's attempt at understanding what he sees, the past cannot and never be seen because it is gone, wiped away. All science can see is the fallen world.
The text doesn't need science it is God telling us the truth directly.
Evolution?The creatures existing at creation were all herbivores, nothing like what we see now.
If the fossi record were the result of the flood, we would find no pattern at all ... it would be a chaotic mishmass of all creatures ... for example, the remains of humans and dogs and cattle would be found amongst the remains of dinosaurs ... but we NEVER find that .The fossil record shows but a few creatures that were mostly buried and died during the flood.
It's impossible for science to ever know exactly what happened before Adam and the Bible doesn't attempt to tell us bcoz it's irrelevant. Instead, the Bible presents the pre-Adamic past as a story that is theologically correct, but not scientifically correct. The theology is all God needs us to know.
I said pre-Adamic history is irrelevant to the Bible, not to science. The Bible is about God, not science.
You can interpret the text that way if you want to. I accept it as theological truth. I don't care if the world is young or old.There is no Pre-Adamic history. God created over 6 days.
Exodus 20
20 And God spoke all these words:
11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day.
The heavens and the earth are all included within the 6 days.
Incorrect. Nowhere does the Bible say the universe and the earth were created within the "six days" of creation.Exodus 20
20 And God spoke all these words:
11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day.
The heavens and the earth are all included within the 6 days.
Irrelevant. The evidence is overwhelming that in this fallen world, evolution happens and that all life has descended from a common ancestor.The only 'evidence' you have is of the fallen world, no one has access to the world as God created it.
How would you know, since you don't know any genetics?I am not posting any falsehoods about genetics
Even if all evidence and claims of evolution are ignored, the fossil record - at the very least - demonstrates that animals were living and dying on earth a very very long time before Adam lived and before Original Sin, which disproves your interpretation of Scripture.The only 'evidence' you have is of the fallen world, no one has access to the world as God created it.
Incorrect. Nowhere does the Bible say the universe and the earth were created within the "six days" of creation.
The "heavens and the earth, the sea" in Exodus 20:11 refer to what happened on planet earth AFTER planet earth was created.
In Genesis 1, God's creative actions during the "six days" are heralded by the words, "Then God said ...", which are repeated nine times (the first appears in verse 3). In none of these nine creative actions does God say, "Let there be a planet called earth" - on the contrary, the only place the planet earth is declared created is in verse 1 - BEFORE the first of the nine "And God said ..." - ie, before the "six days"."refer to what happened on planet earth AFTER planet earth was created."
It doesn't say that. If you want to claim that then you need some scriptural backup saying such and such happened after.
I will wait.
In Genesis 1, God's creative actions during the "six days" are heralded by the words, "Then God said ...", which are repeated nine times (the first appears in verse 3). In none of these nine creative actions does God say, "Let there be a planet called earth" - on the contrary, the only place the planet earth is declared created is in verse 1 - BEFORE the first of the nine "And God said ..." - ie, before the "six days".
Therefore it can be safely assumed that the (planet) earth existed before the "six days" of creation began.
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