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I'm pretty positive that that should actually be "hoisted by your own petard" in that context.
'Let it work; For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard, and it shall go hard but I will delve one yard below their mines and blow them at the moon.' (Hamlet, III, iv, 206-211).
Well, if evolutionists sometimes admit dishonesty then why are you taking umbrage with their honesty? If indeed evolutionists admit to practicing chicanery, they are to be commended for being forthright.. As to predictive, I find nothing predictive in evolution that can not be interpreted differently. Neither do I trust evolutionists in their predictive claims. Such claims can be simply discoveries followed by evolutionist interpretations claimed to be predictions followed by discoveries. Evolutionist dishonesty records do not make for trust in their ethical adherence to scientific mores. Because of that unsavory evolutionist reputation, I suspect the latter instead of the former.
I witnessed that throwing of a newborn baby in an incinerator as a child myself.
Humans can be extremely cruel and do things unknown in the animal world.
Yet we claim we are made in God's image?
If indeed true and God is good, then our image must have become extremely warped in order to allow such things.
The British in WW2 developed a sort of mine that could be attached to wall or door with the intent of blowing it in. Turned out to be almost as dangerous to the people using it as it was to the enemy. They decided to call it, what else, a "petard". It was never widely used.
The same way He made grape juice out of water.By the way, how did God make DNA out of dust,
He had the entire Periodic Table with which to work with.Astrophile said:... and how did he give all living species different DNA if he made them all out of dust?
I think the word "petard" comes from "pensive retard."Yes, I know the quote and I know the history behind the quote (a petard being an explosive device used during the period of the 30 Years War and English Civil War). I'm saying that in the context that radrook used it in, the quote should "hoisted by your own petard".
They don't even have to be born yet.I witnessed that throwing of a newborn baby in an incinerator as a child myself.
I think the word "petard" comes from "pensive retard."
A term ascribed to scientists who are so caught up in the product they are creating (pensive), that they accidentally use it on themselves, instead of on others (retard).
Examples would be mustard gas and Thalidomide.
That's what one of my bosses once told me I could do with my Christianity, when I witnessed to him at work.... so leave your thalidomide/"I hate scientists for no rational reason" schtick at the front door.
I think the word "petard" comes from "pensive retard."
A term ascribed to scientists who are so caught up in the product they are creating (pensive), that they accidentally use it on themselves, instead of on others (retard).
Examples would be mustard gas and Thalidomide.
I was going to mention her, but thought against it.Another "example", of course, would be the death of Madame Curie from radiation poisoning, following the years of research and experimentation conducted by her husband and her.
Lions practice infanticide.
I witnessed that throwing of a newborn baby in an incinerator as a child myself.
Humans can be extremely cruel and do things unknown in the animal world.
Yet we claim we are made in God's image?
If indeed true and God is good, then our image must have become extremely warped in order to allow such things.
I was going to mention her, but thought against it.
That would be a little crass.
I was talking about primates-----everybody knows that male lions kill the infants of the other males when they take over a pride to ensure only his offspring will survive. It is not done for sport, or out of meanness, it is preservation of their genetic line. They do not kill their own.
That's what one of my bosses once told me I could do with my Christianity, when I witnessed to him at work.
I believe in a creator. I do not claim to know for 100% certainty everything about the creator.
I do believe that the creator used the Bible to communicate with mankind.
I do believe that the Bible contains historical facts.
But please keep well in mind that so do all archeologists and historians.
As to the creator ordering the termination of human life-yes, the Bible tells us that he did order the termination of human life and that it included the very young on various occasions. Does it justify that we do the same at a whim. No! that would be like saying that because a high court issues a death sentence that we also have the same right to do so at a whim.
There is an infinite difference between the creator taking a life and we humans deciding to do so.
First, he is the source and sustainer of all life and that grants him the right to terminate it whenever he considers it necessary.
Second, He able to resurrect, so death is viewed as merely a temporary sleep
Third his superhuman faculties allow him to discern on a consequentialist level the almost infinite ramifications of his life terminating actions whereas we are limited in that respect.
Finally, his position as supreme judge of the universe, it doesn't amount to murder just as a court decision to level capital punishment does not involve murder.
So since we limited humans are not in that privileged position, we cannot terminate life without risking committing an injustice.
Yes, I know the quote and I know the history behind the quote (a petard being an explosive device used during the period of the 30 Years War and English Civil War). I'm saying that in the context that radrook used it in, the quote should "hoisted by your own petard".
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