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Evolution Promotes Brutality

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Dogma, were you there, in the Garden with Adam and Eve?

I'm not the one who claims that
- A: this garden even existed
- B: that creatures in that garden ate food, but that death didn't exist

If not, then there will be many things you will not know in this life time about such a place.

Again, I'm not the one who is pretending to know about such a place.
I'm just asking questions.
 
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So, too, do people turning to bogus websites and false science such as creation science.
Key is "turn to"

After one year you can pretty well tell.

Of all those who "turned to the Lord Jesus" you can tell from many what they turned to.

You become like your teacher.

It should be with distinct honesty when a person turns to the Lord Jesus on High.
 
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OK, this thread is getting stupid. You live, you die, nobody cares. Deal with it, people.
A real dust perspective you have gravitated to.

The Holy One on High can change everything! One slight glimps of His Being and Holiness would change you forever!
 
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A real dust perspective you have gravitated to.

The Holy One on High can change everything! One slight glimps of His Being and Holiness would change you forever!

You act like I'm the one who's broken.
 
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Evolution doesn't promote anything. Evolution is descriptive, not prescriptive. You might as well say that gravity promotes pushing people off of buildings.
Descriptions can kill.

Ask those who had Thalidomide described as a prenatal wonder drug.
 
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People have to play connect the dots to accept Evolution happened.

And it takes faith to connect the dots.

Some would like to rationalize faith away, saying it is obvious to any sensible person.

That is called a justification to not need scientific evidence.

Evolution is accepted by faith.

Prople who promote Evolution promotes vicousness in the animal kingdom and among man.
 
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Prople who promote Evolution promotes vicousness in the animal kingdom and among man.

Am I supposed to take that on faith? This is an inflammatory statement that has no basis in fact.
 
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The vicousness in the animal kingdom and among man is due to sin, the fall of man that occurred in the Garden of Eden.

Many have explained away the Bible's authenticity and inerrancy. They are in need to being woke up from their slumber and awake to the deception round about them in this day we live in.

Much of the deception has to do with the accumulation of knowledge that that has come from the Tree of Knowledge. It's fruit is hanging out of most peoples mouth, and they don't even know it, knowledge from below, an Earthly, Natural knowledge devoid of knowledge from above. (James 3:15)

Many people have accepted Evolution and think everything is a OK when its not.
 
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Am I supposed to take that on faith? This is an inflammatory statement that has no basis in fact.
You mean it does not line up to "brainwashing" that happens in many school rooms?

Take a big picture look. Particularly from His viewpoint.
 
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The theory of evolution simply describes nature it does not promote or incite anything. Fifty years ago I was very much like you in your faith. I no longer read the Bible as being either literal or inerrant. In fact I no longer accept the Doctrine of Original Sin.

I do not read the Genesis myth as a fall from an original state of perfection into sin and death. The first couple were completely innocent and naïve creatures. They were certainly capable of making a mistake but without knowing good from evil they lacked even the ability to sin. That ability came only with them eating of the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil". To me the story is a "coming of age story". Our mythical first couple graduated from animal status into to fully self aware human beings capable of making moral judgments. This is not an Original Sin story but rather an Original Blessing story that should be celebrated. We are not a people fallen from an original state of perfection into sin and death. What we are is a people that is still evolving. We are no longer "just animals" but something more.
 
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There were no weeds in the garden so there was no need for weed killer at that time.

So that means that the many species of plants which are weeds did not exist during the Garden of Eden? Was there another creation event afterwards to make these that the Bible doesn't mention?
 
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Prople who promote Evolution promotes vicousness in the animal kingdom and among man.

Many people have accepted Evolution and think everything is a OK when its not.

You have interesting ideas about evolution.

The vicousness in the animal kingdom and among man is due to sin, the fall of man that occurred in the Garden of Eden.

I thought visciousness was caused by evolution, but here you explicitly state it is the fault of religion.
 
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It beggars credulity to imagine that thousands of highly educated experts are either intentionally misleading us about evolution or are otherwise all terribly mistaken. Therefore, it seems that whether we like it or not - including whether evolution "fits" with our reading of the Bible or not - we must accept evolution as a theory with tremendous evidential support. And I think when we deny evolution, we are only embarrassing ourselves (the church). We can still see read the Genesis account as communicating an essential truth about human beings: that we are indeed broken and fallen.
 
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You have interesting ideas about evolution.



I thought visciousness was caused by evolution, but here you explicitly state it is the fault of religion.
Cute, take a look again. A double take.

Evolution never happened. What people promote as Evolution is viciousness and brutality. When in actuality it is due to the Fall, due to sin.

That's right, do a double take. Where you thought you were you're not. And when you wake up to what you were promoting, you find it was sinfully brutal.

God has His ways. We are the ones needing to learn from Him.

As mentioned before, without Him people are not able to know even the basic things about this life. People will get things confused and misunderstood.
 
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Evolution never happened.

Okay.

What people promote as Evolution is viciousness and brutality.

What you are complaining about exists regardless of evolution. You say evolution never happened, yet we have all this "brutality" in the world. So where does that leave us? Because of the fall? Then what is your problem with evolution?

As mentioned before, without Him people are not able to know even the basic things about this life. People will get things confused and misunderstood.

I'd agree your position is confused and misunderstood.

Besides, evolution is not being "promoted", because it doesn't matter whether you agree with it or not, there is an abundance of evidence saying it did.
 
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Maybe your church is blushing.

Mine isn't.
Assuming that this is a cryptic way of asserting that evolution is not a well-supported theory, how do you explain that the overwhelming majority of experts in the relevant disciplines all agree that the broad theory of evolution is indeed very well supported by the evidence? Do you think they are engaged in a huge conspiracy to deceive? Or that they are all mistaken?
 
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