You seem to be saying that you believe the flood was a global event. That view is at least consistent with the views of someone who rejects evolution, so I'll help myself to the assumption that you believe the flood was global.
God said waters covered the Earth, so waters covered the Earth. *shrugs*
But a couple paragraphs down you go to great lengths to say how different the races of humanity are today. So then you seem to be saying that the different races, from Asian to African, evolved within a span of 5000 years. There is no evolutionist on earth who would say evolution occurs that rapidly. We can generate different breeds of dogs fairly quickly but that process is artificial. There was no one force-breeding humans and looking at charts, following breeding recipes to create, say, an Asian. The human races came about naturally and did so, according to you, in 5000 years. Yet you reject evolution.
The Bible gives a nice neat little cliffnotes of who begat who and who went where. A nice little family tree, this guy begat these sons, and these sons went this way and started a nation over there, etc.
Who is to say God didn't cause them to become different, because He seems to like variety?
Firstly, I am greatly annoyed with the hypocrisy of Christians mocking politically correct liberals. You act like it's fair game to spit the truth, regardless of whom you offend.
Political Correct Liberals want to remove all individuality and make everybody the same. They will tell you "no, no, that's not what we want", but we know better. They will want the next thing, and the next thing, and the next thing, and they will not stop until everybody looks the same, acts the same, and is referred to the same. They, in essence, seem to want a world full of people who have no individuality, that they are just... a mass of people that are indistinguishable against one-another.
God created the world with lots of variety. He wanted there to be individuality. Each person is an
individual. God made each human unique, just like He made each snowflake unique. In fact, that's an insult that PC people will sometimes use: "Oh you just wanna be a special snowflake". It isn't that I want to be a special snowflake, it's a fact that everybody
is a special snowflake because
that's how God made us.
OK, how about this: your contradiction-riddled book was composed by a group of racist, sexist, genocidal, conquesting, slave-driving, rapist maniacs.
Wait, what....? Rapist? lol. I would have to say that I know my Bible rather well, but last I checked, rape is actually against Jewish Law.
And they were the ones who ultimately came up with the entire foundation of Christianity: blood sacrifice, without which Jesus' death would've been meaningless. You're literally basing your sense of morality and notion of atonement on the scribblings of these savages. I mean if we're dropping the PC pretense, let's just say it how it is, right?
If that is your opinion, fine. That's your opinion. I won't try to force you to have another opinion, nor will I cry about you speaking what you feel about something.
Oh, but have I trampled something sacred of yours?
If you did, it ain't me you gotta answer to.
Now you see how it feels to those liberals when you trample their sacred notions of equality.
It doesn't really bother me, but yet Liberal PCs get red faced and angry anytime you speak out against their desires to turn everybody into carbon copies of each other.
Perhaps in your eyes it is a stupid notion that equality is a sacred idea, but just be aware that a God sacrificing himself to himself to save us all from himself is equally stupid to us.
If that is your opinion, well. That's your opinion. The problem with PC is that
they are trying to enforce THEIR stuff on everybody else. A Christian will tell you the gospel, but he isn't going to force you to accept Christ. If you refuse Christ, he'll shake his head and walk away from you (hopefully with a prayer that you might change your mind one day). A PC person will rant on and on and use whatever he can to get in your way if you refuse to be PC yourself. They will try to get you in trouble on forums, they will try to enact laws that prevent you from speaking the way you want to speak, blah blah blah. They can't just leave well enough alone, no, they have to enforce THEIR PC standards and remove free speech.
They look similar in size and shape because they are missing links. If they looked nothing like us, they wouldn't be a link in the evolutionary chain.
Or, perhaps, they were just as the Bible says they were -- products of men messing around with things they shouldn't have been messing around with. Sinful aberrations that God never intended to exist.
The artist renditions of them being hairy is likely accurate because we modern humans still get goosebumps, a biological function that is nonsensical to an animal with no fur. The purpose of it is to stand fur upright to conserve heat more efficiently. Therefore it is likely that our ancestors had fur.
The same kinda fur that your average basement-dwelling orange-fingered dew drinker has, maybe.
You asked why there is no bird DNA in humans as if evolution predicts that. Our common ancestors with birds go far, far back as they are not even mammals. Same goes for the reptiles you mentioned.
Again, I said I was being facetious.
I'm not sure what a "species genus" is but your claim that it is absurd that only one genus ever developed "intelligence" is a deathblow to evolution how, exactly?
If the goal of any animal is to reach it's pinnacle of evolution, aka, survival of the "fittest", then you'd think more than one genus would have evolved sapience. Otherwise you got countless animals all over the world who decided that they were cool where they are, or are they just slowpokes?
In a biological sense, intelligent life is anything with a brain or nervous system. So basically everything on earth except plants and single-celled organisms are intelligent. We are obviously much, much farther along on the spectrum.
Again, I said "ok, maybe sapience is a better word to use".
Migration is not a pass/fail type of thing. If they used a more rudimentary navigation system to migrate to a place that is not quite ideal but still warmer, then their chances of survival increase. Pick up a book on evolution.
Some bird species migrate
over the ocean. Like, that one bird species that goes from southern Alaska to Hawaii (or is that somewhere in Canada to Hawaii? Something like that). Where are
these birds gonna stop that's "close, good enough"? All they got is nothing but water for as far as the eye can see until they land on some tiny islands many miles away.
No, you believe in macro evolution to the utmost extreme. You believe that several human races can evolve in under 5000 years.
Noah and his sons had children of their own, and the family went their separate ways. Each family gave rise to the major ethnic groups and it went from there. Some ethic groups changed over time because of their environment (Africans/Ethiopians getting a dark skin tone due to severe sun exposure and lots of heat, for example).
Ever wondered why the ethnic groups' origins are all found in a certain direction from the middle east? Africans and Ethiopians originated from the South of Canaan, Orientals originated from the Southeast and East of Canaan, etc? Just as the Bible said happened.
We do know better than God. I will suffer a witch to live, I will eat hamburgers (mix of dairy and meat), I won't execute someone for working on Saturday or being homosexual, and etc. So yes, God knows quite little about modern society.
God chose a specific people (Israelites) to follow strict laws so that He could set these people apart from the pagans that lived all around them. These laws weren't meant for us (unless you are of Jewish descent by blood), except for the law against homosexuality of course. That remains a sin and is quite clearly defined as such in the NT (and I'd have to agree -- the act disgusting and vile, though I hold nothing against the people; I pray they wake up and stop doing it)
When a fetus reaches a certain number of cells, a group breaks off and declares itself a leg, or a liver, or etc. At that point, it's no longer necessary for that region to contain all of the DNA, and in fact it would be better if it didn't.
"Better" in your limited understanding and point of view.
I missed the part where the universe is going to end. There will be a heat death, but space will still exist.
Excuse me, everything IN the universe, maybe not the universe itself. *rolls eyes* now we're pulling out the semantics.
Yes. Science also has this law called the conservation of matter and energy, so I don't know why you think space will cease to exist.
Space? No. The stuff in space? Yes. Heat death, then stuff gets re-created, and then lives on after that. Just as the Bible says will happen.
OK um, so do you take medicine? Do you go to the doctor? Or are you a Christian scientist? Do you just pray when you get sick?
I try not to take medicine when I can so avoid it. I very rarely get sick (I average about one cold/minor flu per year) and I fight it off with my body's natural immune system. I don't baby my body by stuffing myself full of pills every time I get a sniffle, nor do I bundle up in 5 layers of clothing every time it gets below 40F.
Guess what? I can take up to -10F without a coat and not get sick if there's no wind. I've gotten thoroughly drenched in rain while wearing T-shirt and denim in 38-40F weather and had sniffles for a little, but otherwise did not get sick whatsoever.
I avoid antibacterial soaps (again, don't baby your body if you want it to remain strong) whenever possible.
As for doctors, I avoid them unless I absolutely need surgery or something similar. I have to, anyways, because you know.. the "Affordable" Care Act and all that, that got rid of my health insurance.
No it doesn't fall apart just because we can't describe abiogenesis. That's like saying the theory of gravity falls apart if we can't explain where matter came from to begin with. You are up to your ears in ignorance of science.
Bad analogy.
Abiogenesis -> Evolution -> Today's Animals is a linear progression. Matter -> Gravity is not.
You don't understand evolution and you can't even coherently describe it on a basic level. It's people like you who reject it. Even people like me who didn't major in biology still accept it because it is the fundamental basis of biology that you learn in introductory courses.
So basically, you learn the basics and you go "hey that sounds great!" without even learning the rest of it? lol.
So explain to me how gravity is a legitimate scientific principal if science cannot fully explain the Big Bang and hence the origin of matter to begin with.
Gravity happens today, and gravity is observable today. Abiogenesis is not, neither is the evolution that allegedly happened over millions of years.
The verses are quite clear: the person who wrote that book thought it was common knowledge that you get striped goats in that manner. If such a description was in the Koran and not the Bible, you'd rip it to shreds and urinate on it. Your double standards are overwhelmingly transparent.
You point out in those verses where it says that it happened
because of that. Go ahead, I'm waiting.
It literally says "Thing 1" happened, then "Thing 2 happened", then "Thing 3 happened" It did not say "Thing 1 caused Thing 3 to happen".
I don't see a "Because" anywhere in there. Again, Correlation != Causation.
If I had a wife, and if God were to tell me to dance around in my room while waving a blonde-colored stick to make my pregnant wife's child's hair come out blonde, I'd do it. Not because I believe that waving a stick while dancing has anything to do with it, but more because God is testing my faith and obedience.
I'm pretty well sure Jacob knew that putting those pieces of wood in front of the cows wasn't going to cause that. I'm more of the mind God told him to, and he did it out of obedience and faith no matter how silly it sounds.
God has a sense of humor at times. We're talking about the same God who instructed Isaiah to preach naked to prove a point about Israel at the time, afterall. What did Isaiah do? He did
exactly what he was told to do.
