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Now.... My beliefs are based on one book, yours upon another.
How do we determine which one of us is correct?
The fact that there is no proof of it today.The current battlecry of creationist/ID institutes like AiG, the Discovery Institute, and ICR is that science classes should discuss the weaknesses of the theory of evolution. So what are those weaknesses?
But my book is based on over 5,000 manuscripts, written by eye witness accounts of highly intelligent prominent witnesses to Christs resurrection, His appearances after He was able to lay down His own life, then take it back up again and followed by 2,000 years of scholarly, and brilliant people, who have scrutinized and compared all of these eye witness accounts, and found them ALL to be without discrepancy.My books have evidence supporting them. Even if we've just made the simplest components of a simple replicator that's still infinitely more evidence than God creating life.
If we should stop teaching evolution because we don't know where life came from then we should stop teaching biology all together.
Okay. That's very fair.
Now...The Bible, Gods revealed Word, is what happens when created living humans, reproduce, are fruitful and multiply, and it completely, and without error, explains Gods gracious, and merciful covenants since the first life appeared.
CSchultz said:How do we determine which one of us is correct?
Okay. That's very fair.
Now...The Bible, Gods revealed Word, is what happens when created living humans, reproduce, are fruitful and multiply, and it completely, and without error, explains Gods gracious, and merciful covenants since the first life appeared.
Now.... My beliefs are based on one book, yours upon another.
How do we determine which one of us is correct?
"Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."
But my book is based on over 5,000 manuscripts, written by eye witness accounts of highly intelligent prominent witnesses to Christs resurrection, His appearances after He was able to lay down His own life, then take it back up again and followed by 2,000 years of scholarly, and brilliant people, who have scrutinized and compared all of these eye witness accounts, and found them ALL to be without discrepancy.
So my books, also have evidence supporting them as well, and were witnessed, by eye witnesses.
Educating yourself on the relevant subjects would greatly improve your ability to debate without falling victim to endless PRATTs
I was wondering when we would get to the inevitable... "I'm rubber and you're glue" argument.
But humans, just as any other species, doesnt reproduce "without error". The way DNA is replicated is very good, but not perfect. This imperfection results in mutation. Most mutations are benign, some are bad, and a few benefit survival. Natural selection (observably so) will then direct the beneficial mutations throughout the population and this drives evolution.Now...The Bible, Gods revealed Word, is what happens when created living humans, reproduce, are fruitful and multiply, and it completely, and without error, explains Gods gracious, and merciful covenants since the first life appeared.
Evidence.Now.... My beliefs are based on one book, yours upon another.
How do we determine which one of us is correct
Natural selection, mutation giving rise to traits not previously found in the population(new information), and speciation have all been observed both in the lab and in nature. The kinds of changes you are probably thinking about (eyes and wings or ape to man) span the lifetimes of several entire species and take millions of years to occur.The fact that there is no proof of it today.
Where is the evolution today.
Shouldn't we still be witnessing the evolve of these theories presently?
To say that creationism is equal to evolution is an insult to science. Creationism produces no science. The acceptance of evolution by the scientific community is as close to 100% as you can get. There is no serious scientifically sound alternative.I am saying that we should teach the truth.
If you are an evolutionist, then surely you would agree that our next generation is imperative to our development.
Teach them the truth.
Evolution is one of many theories, it has some basis, and it has many aspects that we cannot prove.
Creation is also equally plausible.
But my book is based on over 5,000 manuscripts, written by eye witness accounts of highly intelligent prominent witnesses to Christs resurrection, His appearances after He was able to lay down His own life, then take it back up again and followed by 2,000 years of scholarly, and brilliant people, who have scrutinized and compared all of these eye witness accounts, and found them ALL to be without discrepancy.
I am saying that we should teach the truth.
Evolution is one of many theories, it has some basis, and it has many aspects that we cannot prove.
Creation is also equally plausible.
Oh, I am so not opening a link including the word "harlequin".
The current battlecry of creationist/ID institutes like AiG, the Discovery Institute, and ICR is that science classes should discuss the weaknesses of the theory of evolution. So what are those weaknesses?
I think if you want a very good example of a glaring gap in our knowledge that bears no effect on whether or not the concept is valid it is the fact that we have yet to find the atomic origin of gravity. The atomic origin of every other fundimental force has been found but we dont know what causes gravity. This is a BIG gap in our knowledge about gravity, but there is so much evidence that gravity exists that while this is still an important problem to solve, the lack of an answer poses no threat to the scientific validity of gravity. I would argue that gaps in our knowledge of evolution are analogous to this in that while they are important to solve their lack of an answer poses no threat to the survival of the concept.I am a firm believer in evolution, but I would be the first to admit we do not know everything on this subject, or indeed any subject.
Thus, even through the evidence for evolution is great, I see the main problem being the evidence we do not yet have. This allows religious nutters to point to gaps in the evidence, as evidence for creationism.
Therefore, evolution suffers from fragmentary evidence. Whereas, creationism suffers from no evidence.
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