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Again, I saw where you quoted some bible verses. I'm still waiting for the evidence part.Evidence informs my beliefs also. I provided you with evidence for creation ex nihilo. But you refuse to accept the evidence.
'The LORD merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He breathed the word, and all the stars were born' (Ps 33:6 NIV).
Are you open to this evidence? If not, why not?
Oz
Ah yes, the ever convincing argument from 'it's just obvious'. Surely that couldn't be fallacious...
Stating something has the "appearance of design" is not the same as saying it is actually designed. A stone fish or an octopus can have the appearance of a rock, but they are not rocks. Snowflakes and the Giant's Causeway both have the appearance of design, but they are not designed.
Evolution gives the answer to the appearance of design (at least in biology).
Again, I saw where you quoted some bible verses. I'm still waiting for the evidence part.
I’m not asking about your dissertation. As a broad term to include such disciplines as paleontology, archaeology, cosmology, etc. yes, historical science is a valid scientific discipline. What I’m asking you about is whether you consider these scientific disciplines to be valid. If not, why?
I must have missed it. All I saw was a bible verse and a link to a book about bible verses. Did you have anything of substance, or was that it?
So a designer created hands and arms with the future intention they would be eventually used for typing?
Or is it that a designer created keyboards to be used by our already-existing hands?
As an 'agnostic' how can you put your 'theology' on the shelf to examine any evidence objectively? You can't.
Human beings are 'wonderfully made' (Ps 139:14). Do you agree or disagree?
Let's start with this, kiddo. The "exodus" never happened. Nary an ounce of evidence. It's complete fabrication.
2) Based on my study of the history of human religious beliefs and its evolution....
That's too vague a question to answer. I have no idea what "wonderfully made" is supposed to mean.
What "slime"? I thought we were talking about the evolution of hands.
Evolution is your presupposition, not your proof.
Too vague or too much outside your worldview?
He's the One before whom I will stand at the end of life. I have a godly fear of Him and the salvation he offers to everyone. Those who reject His offer do to eternal damnation.
Your leaving God out of the picture in your agnosticism has eternal ramifications. Do you care about that?
I was talking about the evolution of religious beliefs. Not biological evolution.
Though, much like biological organisms, religious beliefs have also evolved over time as societies and cultures too evolve.
Who said? Who made those primates and the primates before them?
Your presupposition is still evolution [of religious beliefs]. You start with an evolutionary mindset and your conclusions have to agree with that view.
I'm going with God's view: 'In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth' (Gen 1:1 NIRV).
It doesn't say, 'In the beginning, the evolutionary process was used to produce everything on earth, including human beings - from the beginning'. Neither does it say, 'In the beginning, God used an evolutionary mechanism to create the heavens and the earth'.
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