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Why do Christians have trouble with accepting Evolution?

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You are implying that if evolution exits, God started the process....and just left it to do something else. Sounds like deism.

So now you are misquoting me to say I implied that evolution exists... believe me, nothing is further from the truth.

Let's identify the evolutionists favourite catch phrases, shall we?
  1. various views
  2. could have
  3. Or perhaps
  4. Either way
 
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Yes, you are being very rude and dismissive. You provided no list of solid evidence to support YEC. What you did was dish up some creation-science material and that does not count as real science.
 
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So now you are misquoting me to say I implied that evolution exists... believe me, nothing is further from the truth.


Let's identify the evolutionists favourite catch phrases, shall we?
  1. various views
  2. could have
  3. Or perhaps
  4. Either way

I never misquoted you. I said, "you are implying IF evolution exists". That is a big IF....a hypothetical.

I use those phrases because we are talking about God and evolution. In other words a realm beyond the actual ToE which doesn't deal with religion and its relationship to science.

It makes sense for me to say "various views" when we deal with God and evolution because that is clearly true. There are "various views" that Christians have when it comes to evolution and whether or not God caused it.
 
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="Hoghead1, post: 69511782, member: 381793"]Here are the facts, EastCoast.

Power statement to imply authority of a subject... check.

Science has determined the universe to be about 14.5 billion years old. This is based on c. Now, unless you go with that nutcase Setterfield, then c has remained constant and these scientific measurements are accurate.

I am assuming you are referring to carbon with your quasi esoteric use of lowercase c...
What do you know of the concentration of carbon in times past, you even admit that there are opposing theories to the constant c hypotheses? Doesn't sound like facts Hog. Two opposing theories = speculation.


Speciation is adaptation, not creating new genus, family, kingdom etc.

Lets move beyond this species to species play.... give me observable evidence of one kind, evolving into another kind... you know, that rats evolved into cats.[/quote][/QUOTE]
 
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Try reading Pere Teilhard de Chardin. Yes, he most definitely did see evolution as fitting Scripture. Also, it is not a question of unbelievers here. What it really boils down to is that you feel it's your privilege to berate fellow Christians who do not share your particular views. Your statement about modern biblical scholarship here is totally inaccurate,disrespectful, and inappropriate. Nobody is attacking God or the Bible, just your irrational interpretations thereof. But this is, of course all par for the course. The SOP is that whenever any scholar disagrees with the fundamentalist version of the Bible, he or she is automatically written off as possessed by the Devil, lacking in faith, etc. They did that with Schweitzer, so why shouldn't KW do it to me and others here?
 
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What you say does not make sense. Dawkins sees the contradictions between literal translations of the Bible and the theory of evolution. Christians don't.
Only blind people don't.
You'll have to have serious reading problems to miss the contradictions, or you have to force allegorical interpretation onto it.
 
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Yes, you are being very rude and dismissive. You provided no list of solid evidence to support YEC. What you did was dish up some creation-science material and that does not count as real science.
Well, seeing as you didn't refute it with academia, I will stand on what I posted. What I posted is observable and no amount of your baseless statements that creation science is not real science holds any weight.
 
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No, I accept evolution through fact. And if you paid any real attention to modern science, you would, too.
Why do you keep making the same statement and thinking that by saying enough times, someone will believe you. Again, I ask (but will not get) for these tons of facts you tout... please crush me with the weight of your evidence showing observable evolution in practice.
 
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The question required a yes or no answer... not more rhetoric
 
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Apparently they refuse to.
It doesn't make sense...
 
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When I speak of the Bible, I use words that are definitive not ambiguous. God's Word is sure not to be guessed on.
 
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Only blind people don't.
You'll have to have serious reading problems to miss the contradictions, or you have to force allegorical interpretation onto it.
Wow, you make statements like "only blind people don't" as a bare assertion. You don't think of other alternatives.
Many, many Christian scholars and scientists do not read it that way, especially after researching the original context and audience of the passages. It only presents a problem if you read it one way (as an informer of science), and that's putting a burden on Genesis it was never meant to bear.
 
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Well, seeing as you didn't refute it with academia, I will stand on what I posted. What I posted is observable and no amount of your baseless statements that creation science is not real science holds any weight.
Well, they sure hold weight to those of us who know what science really is about. I have carefully gone over major behavior patterns in creation-science publications and I no way they anywhere come near real science. Here is a list of just a few. Presenting bogus degrees is illegitimate. Plagiarizing is illegitimate. Presenting the unqualified judgments of unqualified persons on sensitive scientific matters is illegitimate. Presenting evidence know to be false is illegitimate. Look, creation-science people themselves admit that the old moon-dust argument and also the human-footprints-with the-dinosaur arguments have been debunked, yet you still find them peddled all over the literature. Presenting 0one's religious beliefs as something to be accepted without question and the sole criterion for which to judge the validity of scientific findings is illegitimate. presenting deliberately falsified information, a in the case of Darwin's finch research and also the rumor they stated about Haeckel, is totally illegitimate. The list goes on and on. Now if you feel that is real science, the God help you.
 
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