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I noticed that it says you're a Deist, what exactly does that mean?
Like the Scopes Monkey Trial?Again: if someone tells you that evolution says that humans evolved from monkeys, you've been given a corrupted version of evolution, and more than likely lied to.
I think I'm going to tag @JohnDB on this one. I love him like another father and he's a really smart guy and I'm really curious what he has to say. Oh yeah and I'm personally a lover and not a fighter.
He spoke them into existence.I personally don't know how God created the Universe and life on this planet.
Absolutely!JohnDB said:My thoughts are: God said it and BANG there it was.
And a hearty AMEN to that!JohnDB said:The rest is an exercise in futility.
I see you used a Big BANG there.
Scientific theories are never proven and are never facts - they're explanations for facts. The Theory of Evolution is an explanation for the observed facts of evolution.Theories are simply that...theories that are as yet unproven and subject to being wrong.
The THEORY of Evolution is just a theory...not proven fact.
Scientific theories are never proven and are never facts - they're explanations for facts.
Imagine you had to take a university-level course on biological evolution. Consider the material you would need to learn/study in such a course.
About 20 years ago I decided I wanted to know more about evolution, so I bought current textbooks on evolution (Herron and Scott) and genetics (Griffiths, Miller, Suzuki, Lewontin, and Gelbart). Both were surprisingly readable, although information dense, even though the only college biology courses I took were biochemistry and biophysics. It doesn't look like any of our current creationists have that level of interest in the subjects.I've had a couple college biology courses. Frankly, I'm not fond of biology. It's a messy science. They like to come up with complicated terms like "chemiosmotic phosphorylation". Compare that to terms like "strange quarks" in physics.
Still, I enjoyed the genetics parts. As I developed a better understanding of genetics, biologic evolution made a lot more sense to me.
Like the Scopes Monkey Trial?
Just coincidental that they informally named it after a monkey, and not a giraffe or something?Which is an informal name for The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes.
So, no. Not like it at all.
Just coincidental that they informally named it after a monkey, and not a giraffe or something?
What on Earth gave them the idea we came from monkeys?
Indeed. However, scientific theories are expected to satisfy certain criteria for judging the quality of an explanation ('abductive criteria').So is the Bible.
How so?
Just coincidental that they informally named it after a monkey, and not a giraffe or something?
What on Earth gave them the idea we came from monkeys?
Because people like to wrongly say that evolution teaches that humans came from monkeys...
And that brings me to my second point of how I believe Christianity and evolution can coexist. (Now this is just a belief so don't shoot me for this.)
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