blueeyeliner said:
:B-fly: Who taught you about evolution? Who do you believe is right about evolution?
No one "taught" me that evolution was right. Over a length of time, I learned the principles of the evolutionary theory, and I accept them
conditionally, which means that the evidences for evolution satisfy me, and unless there's some smoking-gun falsification of it, then I see no reason to doubt it.
Still, evolution is put to the test every day in science labs and in how we observe the natural world.
What creatoinists try to do is to pretend that evolution can't exist in a universe designed by a creator. They shackle God's hands and restrict him to designing everything all at once. And yet this same goofy god, for some reason, left a perfectly sequenced order of animal fossils in the geologic column and carefully decayed them so that they'd each appear to representative of different eras, millions of years apart. He gave similar morphology to animals of simliar "design", almost as if they were related, and he even left a few living clues of this so-called faux evolution by giving us species that can interbreed, such as the camal and the llama.
So, either this God of yours is just a real comedian in how he leaves evidence, or evolution actually happened.
But again... the theory of evolution is
not the theory that God doesn't exist. Many good, praying Christians accept evolution as a viable theory of natural change. They see it as part of God's divine creation. They look at the Bible as a collection of stories that have moral value. They don't take it literally. Taking it literally is really missing the point.
What you tried to do was take various quotes I made and make them
look silly,but why would you do that if you knew something that I
didn't know?
I was catching up and picking out things that I felt I needed to address. You don't know what my intentions are, so stop with the accusations.
The boogie man and other characters were made up by men.
No man would ever write a book like the holy bible unless God told
them to do it, because none of them could live by it, much less expect
others to do it.
I beg to differ. History is filled with thousands of mythical God figures. You don't seem to be aware that the myths of Dionysus, Osiris, and Mithra all contain versions things such as a virgin birth, a last supper, the performance of miracles, and a resurrection that takes place after three days. Sound familiar?
All of these myths predate Christianity.
you cannot allow yourself to believe their is a God and a price to pay for doing evil and for doing wrong.
You just cannot accept God,and there is a great big reason for this,and we all have reasons when it concerns such things,so I truly believe you cannot accept God because you do not want to be punished for sin.
Perhaps you fear you cannot change? well,you are right! You cannot do it,not alone. You need God and his son, amen.
On the contrary. I've investigated the Bible and found it contradictory and absurd. Your accusations are nothing more than a red herring.
I never said that I fear what I cannot change, and yet you went and put those words in my mouth. Why do you do that?
You know, you've done that a lot over three topics in which I've talked to you, and in each case, I think that's really unwarranted and unfair. I never said any of these things, and yet you keep making accusations.
