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Does the fact of Evolution question the idea of marriage to one partner for life?
A little something to reflect upon:
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Some scientists view both social and sexual monogamy in humans as a societal structure rather than a natural state.
"I don't think we are a monogamous animal," said Pepper Schwartz, a professor of sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle. "A really monogamous animal is a goose – which never mates again even if its mate is killed."
She added, "Monogamy is invented for order and investment – but not necessarily because it's 'natural.'"....' ( http://www.livescience.com/32146-are-humans-meant-to-be-monogamous.html )
Really?You again missed my point, AV1611. The punitive God of revelations and the OT as well is definitely not a loving God.
Wow -- let's have a simple quiz here, Hoghead1.You touched on precisely my point, ChetSinger. Too much of teh Bible centers on God punishing people to get even. That is not what a loving and forgiving God would do. At a minimum, forgiveness means remission of punishment, to start with. Furthermore, when you truly love someone, you don't seek to coerce them with threats or seek to inflict terrible pain on them. The OT God, however, does precisely just that. More than one OT passage makes a point of arguing God is without mercy and wants others to be so as well. In Deut.7, he told Moses to act without mercy. In more than one passage, God comes out and says she will act without mercy, will make his arrows "drunk with blood." As well, the OT depicts God as having murdered the innocent first-born, sanctifying slavery, sanctifying genocide, having babies smashed to pieces, inflicting absolutely draconian , sadistic punishments on people, which will make "our hairs stand on end," to quote Calvin, etc. Yes, the OT God is one meany. And that is why many became alienated from Christianity and became atheists, such as Dawkins.
Once we know Jesus, we can relook at the OT with a new perspective.You again missed my point, AV1611. The punitive God of revelations and the OT as well is definitely not a loving God.
Indeed!Once we know Jesus, we can relook at the OT with a new perspective.
1. The Question is Loaded
A loaded question or complex question fallacy is a question that contains a controversial or unjustified assumption.
[Since evolution is indeed controversial because it isn’t accepted by all scientists nor all non-scientists as a fact, then the question asked by the Oped is indeed loaded.]
Aside from being an informal fallacy depending on usage, such questions may be used as a rhetorical tool: the question attempts to limit direct replies to be those that serve the questioner's agenda.
Gregory Bassham (2004). Critical Thinking. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780072879599.
My comment in brackets.
Douglas N. Walton, Informal logic: a handbook for critical argumentation, Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-521-37925-3, pp. 36–37
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question
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3. Not everyone accepts evolution as fact statistics:
Researchers compared the results of past surveys of attitudes toward evolution taken in the U.S. since 1985 and similar surveys in Japan and 32 European countries.
In the U.S., only 14 percent of adults thought that evolution is "definitely true," while about a third firmly rejected the idea.
The only country included in the study where adults were more likely than Americans to reject evolution was Turkey.
The investigation also showed that the percentage of U.S. adults who are uncertain about evolution has risen from 7 percent to 21 percent in the past 20 years.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060810-evolution.html
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Is evolution a fact, like gravity?
http://www.creationtips.com/philos.html
Diversification of Kinds
http://www.creationwiki.org/Created_kind
And Jewish people will also ask that Jesus is part of or God himself. Not much of a prophesy.Indeed!
And according to Psalm 2, until they do, all unregenerates will fight against Him.
Philosophers, scientists, atheists, agnostics, humanists: all will be against Him.
Really?
Do you believe this "punitive unloving God" is:
- Finishing the transgression.
Something the bible never actually does: explain what makes "sin" bad. Most that you get out of it is that god doesn't like it, and some loose association with human suffering. From personal experience, working on the weekends doesn't make me suffer any more than working on any other days of the week.Making an end of sins.
For god being unfair to humanity? Because I don't think it is humanly possible to be unfair to a deity that powerful.Making reconciliation for iniquity.
In its opinion.Bringing in everlasting righteousness.
Those prophecies are so vague, that if they didn't all have to happen in sequence, more than half of the Revelations ones would be accounted for.Sealing up visions and prophecies.
Itself... just in a different form.Anointing the most Holy.
Those were a reference to ...
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When does the second begin?Those were a reference to ...
Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
... which give us the reasons for the Tribulation period and millennial reign of Christ.
Jesus fulfilled 109 of 333 prophecies during His first advent.
He will fulfill the remaining 224 during His second.
How many biologists can you show who don't accept evolution as fact?
Can you point us to any peer reviewed papers that provide evidence for alternative theories?
Your stats showing how many Americans believe in evolution is irrelevant, is the quality of any scientific theory decided by a poll of US citizens? Why not show a poll of how many biologists who actually have a relevant education accept evolution?
The only reason for not accepting evolution as fact is because religious types feel it conflicts with their interpretation of the bible. The 'controversy' only exists because of creationist propagandists writing pointless articles like the ones you posted and a refusal to accept evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.
I don't know exactly.When does the second begin?
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