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In my experience, they'd be the worst. Especially Baptist pastors.I don't know if a Pastor would necessarily be the best person to seek out for information about biology.
Well evidently the OP has looser standards, eh?If this hypothetical Pastor is knowledgeable on the topic (by which I mean a modern scientific understanding rather than ignorant YEC garbage) I don't see a problem with it.
But they qualify as far as the OP is concerned ... right?In my experience, they'd be the worst. Especially Baptist pastors.
Are you guys trying to limit the OP to a select group of pastors? or am I just imagining some scientific prejudice going on?Basically anyone who invokes rocket powered flying clams or teleporting koalas should be way down the list.
I suggested the pastors because I thought creationists would trust their pastor before someone who knew what they were talking about, I thought it might be possible that the crazy answers a pastor might give would just not ring true to a creationist and it might make them think about the question.And for those who disagree with you, they can ask their pastors why animals and plants living on the islands [sic] of Madagascar & Australia not exist anywhere else on earth?
Right?
LOL
That statement has some truth. As a practicing, believing Christian, I am disgusted at times by the 'fringes' who demand exact adherence to their opinions and conclusions and ignoring any Biblical references at odds with those opinions.All lies seem to be believed if the word God is in the sentence somewhere, for those people raised in fear of Gods it's not even up for debate, the truth regarding their God is dependant on the amount of fear that's been instilled in them.
It depends on the pastor. I know a couple pastors who have no real knowledge of biology (or wood working) and yet think they know 'everything' about biology (not so much wood working). Most have the basic High School course information, which may have been updated since High School and much forgotten. Then there are a few who are actual Renaissance men and have a wide range of knowledge.I don't know if a Pastor would necessarily be the best person to seek out for information about biology.
The time to believe something is when there is sufficient evidence to justify belief, not before.That statement has some truth. As a practicing, believing Christian, I am disgusted at times by the 'fringes' who demand exact adherence to their opinions and conclusions and ignoring any Biblical references at odds with those opinions.
Hi dave,
That's a correct understanding of my faith in God. Paul tells us that the chief importance of there ever even being a Jewish people was that they were entrusted with the very oracles of God. Those 'oracles' are the Scriptures. They have been preserved throughout the generations since their writing by the very hand of God. Even at one point when a part of them were destroyed, God created a duplicate copy. For me, the Scriptures, and only the Scriptures, are what I can be assured are the truth of God. Who He is and all that He has done. What my purpose is and why He created this realm. It's all told to me in the Scriptures and they are complete for the understanding of any man to know God. For me, if I can't verify some understanding or belief of others through the Scriptures, then it's suspect understanding or belief.
Others have different measuring rods for truth.
God bless you,
In Christ, ted
That might work for Thalidomide, but not God.The time to believe something is when there is sufficient evidence to justify belief, not before.
1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.All of that is you believing the words of other men, that's all...
Ask your pastors this question, Why do animals and plants living on these island not exist anywhere else on earth?
Could it be because they were isolated from the rest of the world and evolved?
What in it do you find compelling?
i can add another evidence. for instance: according to scientific papers DNA cant survive more then 100,000 years. and yet we have found such DNA from fossils that suppose to be 20 my old.The rate the sun is burning up and becoming smaller. If the earth was billions of years old, the sun would have consumed earth then. Especially, flesh and blood.
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