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The bottom line is that God wrote the Christian's name down when he got saved.And what of the artificial heart, which really is just a blood pump and no more; how would a person's brain train that to work like a normal heart in this sense, when they aren't even that great as a blood pump compared to a real heart?
Then why do you care if talking about the heart is used figuratively or literally in the bible?The bottom line is that God wrote the Christian's name down when he got saved.
Now he's guaranteed a place in Heaven with Him!
Once saved, always saved.Also, what about people that deconvert, aren't they no longer saved?
So an atheist with an artificial heart would be doomed then, since they would be unable to form this heart connection with Jesus, is that what you are saying?Once saved, always saved.
It's called eternal security.
John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Hoo boy.So an atheist with an artificial heart would be doomed then, since they would be unable to form this heart connection with Jesus, is that what you are saying?
If the evidence ever comes to light that verified the right specific God, that there's an afterlife, and the appropriate way to pay appreciations, I'll reassess my position.Nope. But I know one. I was in His house last night. You should try it.
I did though. Feel free to call it a miracle if you feel better about it, but it is still magic. You're positing a fiat creation of a species, like a Jackalope, just because. That isn't natural... Unless you mean created via the natural process of evolution?Never said it was magic.
If, as you say, your God can do whatever he wants whenever he wants, such as creating a species in the middle of all the other species with all the tell-tale signs it was evolved along with everything else living on this planet, then you do, by definition, accept that position.I subscribe to no such sophomoric nonsense.
Sure, Practice of the Scientific Method isn't bound by the results of a previous practice of the scientific method... whatever that means... I think perhaps you've missed the point. the Theory of Evolution is the RESULT of the practice of the scientific method. The exact same Scientific Method that led to all the comforts and conveniences you enjoy today, is what has revealed Evolution to be the most well-founded theory in all of science. Incidentally, the medical sciences rely quite heavily on the Theory of Evolution, whether you accept that fact or not.You'd have a better understanding of what I say if you paid attention sometimes. Science is the study or the natural world around us. It is not dependent on theories of origins.
Even if you were right about there ever having been a worldwide flood involving a bottleneck of every species on the planet around 4,000 years ago, 'Adaptation' that crosses generations, is by definition Evolution.No, we found genetic commonalities and you made assumptions. Granted, a great deal of speciation would have had to occur after the Great Flood to account for all the species that exist today, but there are processes for that. We call that adaptation. It's a conservative process.
I don't have one - I'm not convinced there are any Gods, afterlife or the supernatural as it pertains to religion and spirituality. I'm open to the evidence, of course...My God doesn't lie. I'll not comment on yours.
Was my comment stupid somehow? If you believe that Jesus literally interacts with someone's heart to form a connection with them, it would make perfect sense that a person with an unnatural heart could be unable to form this connection, since artificial hearts are literally just mediocre blood pumps.Hoo boy.
Let's go over this again, Sarah.Not an issue if you consider the heart stuff non-literal.
How can Evolution be falsified?
Like the mousetrap?All it would need is for Behe & Co to come up with something which really was irreducibly complex.
Like the mousetrap?
That's nice.A mousetrap with some pieces missing is still functional as a tie clip.
That's nice.
And how many mice can this reducibly-complex mousetrap catch in a year's time?
Nor can it clip my tie to my shirt.A bacterial flagellum can't catch any mice,
Nor can it clip my tie to my shirt.
And I'm Genghis Khan.So obviously an irreducibly complex system is not defined by what it does.
And I'm Genghis Khan.
Ask a four year old what a mousetrap is designed to catch.
Ask a four year old if a tie clip can catch mice.Ask a four year old if a mousetrap can lose pieces and still function as a tie clip.
Ask a four year old if a tie clip can catch mice.
Ask 75,000,000 Europeans that.Ask a four year old if there is no function in the entire universe other than catching mice.
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