Who's on First?

[tansy]

Too true -- and when you consider that evolution only explains a species' physical development, and God (so I've heard) is a more "spiritually" minded Supreme Being, does it really matter what we physically developed into, so long as we are able to commune (however it happens) with the divine?

How much less "in God's Image" would we be if we had evolved into two-headed firebreathing chickens?

Well, I'm jolly glad I'm not a two-headed fire-breathing chicken LOL.

You may have a point Nathan..though I tend to think that God planned how we would be,,inclcuding animals and plants, but I do know at least one other Christian who shares your view.

 

[Nathan Poe]

Well, I'm jolly glad I'm not a two-headed fire-breathing chicken LOL.

Ah, but if you were a two-headed firebreathing chicken, you'd probably be jolly glad you weren't a one-headed hairless ape.

It was the greek philosopher Xenophanes who rejected an anthropomorphic god -- "But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves."

You may have a point Nathan..though I tend to think that God planned how we would be,,inclcuding animals and plants, but I do know at least one other Christian who shares your view.

Humans are obsessed with superficial physical things -- why assume that God is too?

 

[tansy]

Ah, but if you were a two-headed firebreathing chicken, you'd probably be jolly glad you weren't a one-headed hairless ape.

It was the greek philosopher Xenophanes who rejected an anthropomorphic god -- "But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves."



Humans are obsessed with superficial physical things -- why assume that God is too?

As I say, you may have a point..it's just kinda hard to imagine NOT being as I am - and I have to say i do sometimes say to God things like wouldnt it have been useful if you'd given us pouches like knagaroos to carry things in (with zips of course!), so we don't have to carry bags and we don't lose our wallets etc..LOL

 

[Hespera]

As I say, you may have a point..it's just kinda hard to imagine NOT being as I am - and I have to say i do sometimes say to God things like wouldnt it have been useful if you'd given us pouches like knagaroos to carry things in (with zips of course!), so we don't have to carry bags and we don't lose our wallets etc..LOL

Shucks, while he was at it, a few other design changes! Here we have big powerful hind legs that are so badly engineered we can be outrun by a chicken. Tweak this, lengthen these bones, move that muscle attachment a bit and voila! We can race kangaroos. Imagine the savings in gas.

 

[JGL53]

The poll results seem pretty scientific to me. I.e., about 12 per cent of people will pretty much believe anything.

I wonder if such folks believed walking existed before legs or leg-like appendages?

Or carts existed before horses?

LOL.

 

[AV1611VET]

The poll results seem pretty scientific to me. I.e., about 12 per cent of people will pretty much believe anything.

I wonder if such folks believed walking existed before legs or leg-like appendages?

Or carts existed before horses?

LOL.

Doesn't pantheism teach the Gaea Hypothesis, or is it up to the individual?

 

[Nathan Poe]

Doesn't pantheism teach the Gaea Hypothesis, or is it up to the individual?

Up to the individual.

 

[tansy]

Shucks, while he was at it, a few other design changes! Here we have big powerful hind legs that are so badly engineered we can be outrun by a chicken. Tweak this, lengthen these bones, move that muscle attachment a bit and voila! We can race kangaroos. Imagine the savings in gas.

Of course, thenagain He's given us the brains to build fast vehicles, make flying machines, constuct spacecraft, build ships, hovercrafts etc etc...so maybe we're not so badly off, after all