1.Does the Earth consist of one homogenous environment?
Obviously not, if one hasever traveled.
ANSAR: TRUE
2. Are human beings clones of each other?
DOH! No.
ANSAR:TRUE
3. If we are not clones of each other, then how can descent with modification and genetic recombination NOT be seen as CHANGES OVER TIME?
You mean like my son being 3" taller than me? (You do realize you're using logic to combat illogic, don't you?)
ANSAR:I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN BUT I SAY THAT IF DESCENT WITH MODIFICATION AND NATURAL SELECTION AND GENETIC RECOMBINATION IS TRUE, THE WHAT IS OCCURING IS CHANGE OVER TIME. THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF EVOLUTION.DO YOU DENY THIS?
4.why is it in the Hebrew Bible, two different words are used for mankind's spirit in the Genesis account?
Why are there two words for God? Elohim and YHWH? (And isn't Elohim technically plural?) Could it be there were two writers between Gen 1 & Gen 2?
ANSAR:GENESIS DOES HAVE MULTIPLE WRITERS AND EDITORS BUT THAT IS NOT THE POINT.EL,ELOHIM AND YHVH ARE USED B/C THEY ARE DIFFERENT BEINGS.YHVH IS AN ELOHIM.EL IS THE ONE G-D.YHVH IS NOT.NONE OF THESE IS THE PERSONAL NAME OF G-D,BUT EL(ALLAH) IS THE NAME GIVEN HIM.NEFESH AND NESHAMA,AS SINAI WILL TELL YOU DESCRIBE TWO DIFFERENT STATES OF BEING.NESHAMA DESCRIBES A SENTIENT BEING!IF MAN WAS INFUSED WITH NEFESH AND THEN THE LAMED IN HEBREW ADDED TO NESHAMA IS USED, EVOLUTION HAS OCCURED.MANKIND'S NATURE HAS CHANGED!PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
5. Is it not LIKELY that Adam was the first sentient MAN, and that other MEN existed before that were not sentient?
Like Neanderthals? And not even going there, but where did the people come from who Cain hooked up with after he was expelled from Eden? If Adam was the first man, Cain and Abel were the first (and only) children, what happened?
ANSAR:THE BIBLE COULD HAVE EASILY LEFT OUT MANY GENERATIONS.DO WE KNOW HOW MANY CHILDREN ADAM HAD WITH EVE?DO WE KNOW THAT ADMA DID NOT MATE WITH HIS DAUGHTERS AND GRANDCHILDREN?HOW DO WE KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE EXISTED ON EARTH WHEN CAIN WAS EXPELLED?THERE IS A TIME GAP IN THE GENESIS ACCOUMT.IT IS ALSO TOTALLY POSSIBLE THAT CAIN MATED WITH THE OTHER HUMANS THAT ONLY HAD NEFESH AND NOT NESHAMA.IN FACT ANTHROPOLOGISTS ARE DEBATING THIS RIGHT NOW.DID MODERN HUMANS INTERMIX WITH ARCHAIC HUMAN POPULATIONS OR DID THE ARCHAIC HUMAS DIE OUT WITHOUT CONTRIBUTING GENETICALLY TO OUR GENE POOL?
6. Is not the idea that there was no death before Adam and Eve pure interpolation? The bible says that the consequences of sin is death. This does not mean that death did not occur before. It also means that, by sin, death entered MANKIND'S existence, NOT that death never existed before.
Again, that logic problem rears its ugly head. I would say though, that through sin we separated ourselves from God, and have been trying ever since to get back home.
ANSAR:HOW DO YOU SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM A BEING THAT IS OMNIPRESENT?CAN WE SAY LOGICAL CONTRADICTION?
7.Is it not possible that after obtaining sentience, and then knowledge of good and evil, Mankind had no excuse for sin, and the punishment for sin while you know is eternal death.
We still have no excuse for sin, except fear. What do we fear anyhow?
ANSAR:I FEAR NOTHING,BUT YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT.WILL G-D PUNISH THOSE FOR DOING THINGS WHEN HE KNOWS THAT THEY ARE UNAWARE THAT WHAT THEY DO IS SIN?OR DOES THE LAW OF SIN=DEATH ALWAYS APPLY.IF SO,IS THIS MERCIFUL?IS IT JUST?
8.If there was no death before Adam, then what did the animals eat? How could the plants not oversaturate the air with C02, IF THEY DID NOT DIE?
(shaking head)
ANSAR:WHY SHAKE YOUR HEAD?IT IS A LEGITIMATE CONCERN.IF PLANTS DON'T DIE, THEN THE CYCLE OF C02 RELEASE AND ABSORPTION WILL NOT ONLY RAISE THE TEMPERATURE OF THE EARTH, BUT KILL ALL LIVING THINGS.WHAT DID THE ANIMALS EAT?IF THEY WERE HERBIVORES THAEN THE PLANTS EXPERIENCED DEATH AND DEATH DID EXIST BEFORE HUMAN SIN, DID IT NOT.
9.I urge all creationists, muslim and christian and jew to resolve the idea that the Bible BOTH says that the WORLD was created in six days, and that a day with g-d is like 10,000 YEARS AND SO ON. MIND YOU, I DO NOT THINK THAT BIBLE GIVES AN ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF EVOLUTION OR THAT THE BIBLE ITSELF IS CORRECT IN EVERYTHING, BUT THE BIBLE DOES SEEM TO SPEAK OF IT'S OWN THEORY OF EVOLUTION.
Such heresy! Ok, sorry for the sarcasm, but you're arguing with people who can't see the forest for the trees. You and Bear and others can see the Bible as the book of wisdom that it is, and don't have to believe in its perfection to believe in its lesson. It's not God's perfect word or else God is very imperfect. It is God's word in the fact that the lessons are always right. Those who live lives of faith and Love connect with God, those who don't separate themselves further from God.
ANSAR:MAYBE.I THINK IF IT(THE BIBLE) IS G-D'S WORD, THEN IT SHOULD BE PERFECT.WOULD YOU NOT AGREE?SEEING THE BIBLE AS A BOOK OF WISDOM DOES NOT MEAN I TAKE IT FOR G-D'S WORDS.
A perfect God doesn't need a perfect Bible, just faith the size of a mustard seed
ANSAR:THIS IS WRONG!A PERFECT BEING INDEED REVEALS A PERFECT WORD
P.S.NOT YELLING AT YOU JUST DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN MY WORDS AND YOURS IN THE POST.
PEACE AND BLESSINGS