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I think you’re confusing me speaking within a scenario, or hypothetically as agreeing with you.
That’s not how Evolution works. Evolution happens when a random mutant is born with the ability to survive where others cannot. They don’t compete with anything, they just live when others die. But if nothing dies, you will still have those mutants born.
How is overpopulation going to prevent the birth of mutants?
First of all, when you addressed Gene2memE, you said you disagreed with Evolution and have provided evidence that it doesn’t occur, then you contradicted yourself by proclaiming microevolution does occur.
Well at first he did embrace God but then later rejected Him.
He does have the ability to overcome evil, He is going thru the process to do that in this universe. The biblical definition of omnipotence is the ability to do anything that is possible to be done. For example, making a square circle is not possible. It does not mean that He can do absolutely anything. Educated Christians have always known this.
Again, as I demonstrated earlier, free will is the ability to do what you want to do, irrespective if you have a limited number of choices and one of those choices has very bad consequences. Using your example of the robber with a gun to your head. Your money or your life. You still have the ability to choose what you want. Do you want to lose your money or your life. Nothing in that scenario damages your will to do what you want, you just have a limited number of choices but both are negative. But with God's choices one results in a wonderful life on earth and a wonderful life in eternity and the other results in maybe a good life on earth but a horrible existence for eternity.
I said US not HIM. Care to try again?
A Square circle is a contradiction in terms; to overcome evil is not. Care to try again?
I never said a gun to your head means you have no free will, I said the free will doesn’t come from the guy putting the gun to your head! Care to try again?
It is revenant to your point. The point is, if the Gestapo backed up with 20 soldiers came to your house looking for Jews, for you to try to shoot one of them would only be your suicide and resulting in the death of your family as well as those innocent people you were hiding. to lie to them is the only moral thing to do in that situation. Thus lying is some circumstances could be the right thing to do
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The rules of logic are non-physical, so there is no one location where they exist. They exist throughout the universe and are in operation throughout. Similar to the laws of physics, the laws are non-physical but operate and control physical entities.
Those are rules of logic, not laws of logic
Logic is subjective; not objective.
Just because the law is logical, doesn't mean it is a law of logic.
Logic only exist in the context of human thought. If humans ceased to exist; so would logic.
It is not immoral to wear a hijab in public. It is not immoral to not wear a hijab in public. I cannot answer with yes or no because of the way you have worded the questions. But I think you get my point.
It is objectively immoral.
No, you are moral agent if you recognize and follow moral laws especially the moral law specifically designed for this universe by its creator. Who else would know what is best for you? But of course, He gave you free will to disagree and disobey, but you may want consider the possible consequences. Disobeying His moral laws is similar to disobeying His physical laws like trying to fly like a bird by jumping off a cliff and flapping your arms, His law of gravity is probably going to kill you.
No, if you believe two different things that contradict each other then your statement and beliefs are meaningless. For example, If you say I hate you and I love you. That statement is meaningless. Or if you say I love guns and I hate guns. That is also a meaningless statement.
No, those beliefs are not subjective they can be proven because they are based on objective facts such as the law of gravity. See my post above.
If God exists objectively then so do all of His characteristics including His moral character upon which Christian morality is based. That is why only Christian morality has an objective foundation.
It is still based on His character but it has been distorted by our sin. It is like looking in a mirror partially covered by condensation. You can see partially what you look like but it is distorted.
Apparently just being based on his moral character wasn’t good enough; he should have made us equal to his moral character; that way we wouldn't have sinned.
Fraid so, they compete for ecological niches. Mutants may be born but if their mutation does not help outcompete the existing organism in the niche, then the mutants will die out. This is evolution 101. Did you ever take a course on evolutionary biology?
I am referring to populations of an organism not an individual. Some populations of animals adapt to environmental conditions such as the bacteria you posted about, but they remain the same species of bacteria, this not evolution as Darwin understood it. This is adaptation.
Quote me when I said I agreed with you; otherwise I will assume you just misunderstood me.
In the scenario, nothing dies; remember? So in the context of this discussion, nothing outcompetes existing organisms because everything lives!
No; in this scenario they won’t die out because NOTHING DIES remember? So if you are going to agree that random mutants will still be born where there is no death, will you admit your claim that evolution requires death was wrong?
95% of what Darwin studied was bacteria, virus, and germs. So if you want to refer to the standard darwinian model, perhaps you should spend more time discussing 95% of his studies and less time on the 5% of his studies. Darwin was over 100 years ago! He didn’t discover Evolution; he just published it for peer review. Why don’t you mention what people of today are saying about it?
Perhaps you are confusing me with someone else; I didn’t post about bacteria adapting to environments and remaining the same
When the genetic structure remains the same, NOBODY calls that evolution! As I said before, Evolution is when the genetic structure changes.
He was our representative so he was acting on our behalf.
True and your point is?
So God chose Adam and Eve as our representatives knowing they would fail? How fair is that? We should have had the chance to represent ourselves.
If evil cannot exist in Heaven, it need not exist on Earth either.
My point is; if God is the one providing punishment or reward, he cannot be the one to provide freewill. We have freewill, it just doesn't come from God.
