Parrotfish have "beaks" too. I'm suprised you aren't claiming that parrotfish evolved into parrots.Many dinosaurs had beaks.
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Parrotfish have "beaks" too. I'm suprised you aren't claiming that parrotfish evolved into parrots.Many dinosaurs had beaks.
That's why birds and dinoes are not one kind, as you are trying to claim.Anatomy.
What bird has a jaw? Birds have beaks not mouths.Main characteristics dinosaurs share:
- They had an upright stance, with legs perpendicular to their body. This is the main feature that sets dinosaurs apart from other reptiles.
- Like other reptiles, they laid eggs.
- With the exception of some birds, for example penguins, dinosaurs lived on land, not in the sea.
- Their skull had a hole between the eye socket and nostril. This feature is shared by all archosaurs.
- Dinosaurs also had two holes behind the eye socket. Large, strong jaw muscles went through the holes to attach directly to the top of the skull. As a result, the jaws were able to open wide and clamp down with more force.
Got anything to back it was specifically a dino?troodontid dinosaur Microraptor had flight feathers
How funny. The information for their legs musta stayed there, they didn't magically "revolve" them. If genes are suppressed, they don't work. No Darwin needed.Scientist have...
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i addressed the testimony earlier.YE creationism is a great atheist-maker.
Names? Links?But it's not the only reason. For years, fundamentalist ministers were howling that "race mixing" was against God's law. It's more than just YE creationism, but YE creationism is a major contributor..
Human sin nature and its fruit, the invention - and teaching - of Athiestic OEE, are.YE is why so many people have rejected Christianity.
Yec is a Part of Christian beliefs. Cutting out YEC sets one on a risky road.They see such obvious falsehoods and assume that YE creationism is Christianity.
So what, exactly, DID they teach him? For all i know these could have been JW or Islamic Yec's and not Biblical ones.But eventually, by 1994 I was through with young-earth creationISM. Nothing that young-earth creationists had taught me about geology turned out to be true.
He must not have been taught very many ICR facts then.I took a poll of my ICR graduate friends who have worked in the oil industry. I asked them one question.
“From your oil industry experience, did any fact that you were taught at ICR, which challenged current geological thinking, turn out in the long run to be true?”
That is a very simple question. One man, Steve Robertson, who worked for Shell grew real silent on the phone, sighed and softly said ‘No!’ A very close friend that I had hired at Arco, after hearing the question, exclaimed, “Wait a minute. There has to be one!” But he could not name one. I can not name one. No one else could either. One man I could not reach, to ask that question, had a crisis of faith about two years after coming into the oil industry. I do not know what his spiritual state is now, but he was in bad shape the last time I talked to him.
He should read up on Crev.info articles today. YEC side is only getting stronger.And being through with creationism, I very nearly became through with Christianity. I was on the very verge of becoming an atheist.
No. It's a Darwin myth that infected a FEW yec's here and there.As you see, racism is a YE creationist myth.
If it was a foundation they would not reject it.if not most YE creationists now reject the racist
Why do you imply that God is very racist? The Bible is God's Word.but I would expect most of them to object to the kind of racism we see expressed by the founders of YE creationism.
See above.the racial beliefs of the founders of YEC.
Just be sure to emulate the love and helpful part. Not the heretic part.The point to the Good Samaritan was not merely "it's good to help those in need"; it was Jesus telling His people that it's better to emulate a heretic who loves and cares for all people, than to be like a religiously-correct Levite who does not.
I do. I haven't said otherwise.I can only accept that Jesus is right. You should, too.
I did. Take your advice.If you were, you'd just accept His word on it. Find a way to do that.
Genesis does not show a slow period of time and/or clumsy cobbling of creation. If it did I'd be an OEE.It's just God's creation.
I did. You haven't given Biblical support for OEE.Why not just accept it on His terms?
Amen. Neither will you, simply for rejecting YEC.You won't go to hell for rejecting evolution;
:amendon't make an idol of your new doctrines.
How did i conflate them? F2F Evolution and BBT are both beliefs about life (F2FE) and big bang (universe history ) that athiests and other nonbelievers have.It's a common dodge among creationists. Conflating theories might seem like an easy deception, but it never works.
SDA version of YEC taught to ICR and CRS????Around the turn of the century, the Seventh-Day Adventists, on the visions of a "prophetess" invented YE creationism. It was proselytized to fundamentalists who founded the first YE creationist organizations like the ICR and Creation Research Society.
So much straw!If you regard God's word as "nonfactual" if He chooses to use allegory in His word,
You don't need to do anything as I already do. It's you who seem to struggle.there isn't much I can do to get you to believe Him.
ok.In fact, Darwin wrote that God just created the first living things.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Charles Darwin, last sentence of On the Origin of Species
So it's possible he was a Thiest.Doesn't sound like atheism to me. Why deny something so manifestly obvious?
Electricity is not an "origin of the different kinds of life" explanation. Origins is a history issue.No more than you'd expect them be hating on electricity.
Not Adventist "revision".AIG accepts the Adventist revision called YE creatinism.
He's saying that the first living things were made by the Creator. I don't see what's so difficult about that.What is darwin saying were 'breathed by the Creator'? That view of life? The several powers? Life? Clarification needed.
HIs point was a heretic who loved his fellow man was to be emulated in preference to a religiously-correct person who did not. He was making clear what would save a person. Theology won't save you; a heart tuned to God and your neighbor will save you.Just be sure to emulate the love and helpful part. Not the heretic part.
Neither does the evidence showing God uses evolution to make new kinds of living things. But it does rule out YE creationism.Genesis does not show a slow period of time and/or clumsy cobbling of creation.
And why would a "cult" (you assert its a cult) make this clear?
I think any reasonable person would realize that the way living things change over time, is an entirely different subject than how the universe began. How could any sane person think those are the same?How did i conflate them? F2F Evolution and BBT are both beliefs about life (F2FE) and big bang (universe history )
Why not just accept His word as it is, and you won't have to compromise with man's invention of YEC.Compromise in the Faith is an important issue for me.
Pretty hard to accept that God created the first living things without being a theist.So it's possible he was a Thiest.
In The Voyage of the Beagle, he mentioned that he was the butt of jokes over his extreme Anglican orthodoxy. Which is a clue, I suppose.But which kind?
Like evolution, it's an observed natural phenomenon.Electricity is not an "origin of the different kinds of life" explanation.
And evolution is not a "how electrons move in a conductor" explanation. But they are both explanations for observed natural phenomena.Electricity is not an "origin of the different kinds of life" explanation.
But that's not what YE creationism is:Ham is partly correct: the Adventists certainly didn’t invent the idea of a young earth.
You've fallen into the creationist error of "looks like" means "the same thing." Some fish do have jaws that look superficially like the jaws of dinosaurs. But they are formed from different tissues. I'm surprised you aren't claiming that bats are birds.Parrotfish have "beaks" too.
They all have jaws. Did you really not know that?What bird has a jaw? Birds have beaks not mouths.
He got his degree in geology from the ICR graduate school.He must not have been taught very many ICR facts then.
Even many YE creationists today now admit there is very good evidence for macroevolutionary theory. And even AIG has now conceded the evolution of new taxa as a fact.He should read up on Crev.info articles today. YEC side is only getting stronger.
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YE creationists are not God, although they seem to frequently forget that. God's word is the Bible, not the claims of YE creationists,Why do you imply that God is very racist?
Ok, so life then. Got it.He's saying that the first living things were made by the Creator.
NothingI don't see what's so difficult about that.
This doesn't seem accurate.Theology won't save you; a heart tuned to God and your neighbor will save you.
No. It made YEC.But it does rule out YE creationism.
Don't see how this explains why a supposed "cult" would want to make sure everyone knew that Creation vs Evolution is a NonSalvational issue. Wouldn't a cult want to make a salvational issue out of it?Are Ken Ham and AIG Redefining the Gospel and Harming the Faith of Many? | The Wartburg Watch 2024
I never said they were the same. I said they were origins beliefs.I think any reasonable person would realize that the way living things change over time, is an entirely different subject than how the universe began. How could any sane person think those are the same?
His Word does not contradict Himself. Why would I not accept it?Why not just accept His word as it is,
YEC is not compromise, OEE is.compromise with man's invention of YEC
If you mean CAFPT and speciation, then yes.evolution, it's an observed natural phenomenon.
You accept the Athiest-freindly, Christianity-destabilizing belief called O E E.AIG accepts the Adventist revision called YE creatinism.
So you think biologos was wrong ???But that's not what YE creationism is:
George McCready Price and ‘Flood Geology’
Was that an "educated guess" or direct observation?Many dinosaurs had beaks, which were formed from the same tissues as bird beaks.
I didn't, plus it's not a "YEC error". Just a logic error or confusion.You've fallen into the creationist error of "looks like" means "the same thing."
Yes.Some fish do have jaws that look superficially like the jaws of dinosaurs. But they are formed from different tissues.
Because I didn't fall into any "YEC errors".I'm surprised you aren't claiming that bats are birds.
Seems like you fell into the error.Their mouths are, like ours, formed by bones of the skull.
By what you've said, youre basically claiming that YEC are admitting speciation.very good evidence for macroevolutionary theory
You ASSUME writing about means promoting.I've already shown you that ICR co-founder Henry Morris wrote about the supposed intellectual and spiritual inferiority of black people.
Yes.Would you like to see some more?
Polythiesm is not true and God isn't a mere human. Thought you knew.But I would expect most YE creationists today to object to the kind of racism we see expressed by the founders of YE creationism.
They've never claimed to be or acted as God. Thought you knew.YE creationists are not God, although they seem to frequently forget that.
not the claims of OE F2F evolutionists ****God's word is the Bible, not the claims of YE creationists,
And for the few traits they DO share, Common design. No one has tested or repeated their alleged "evolve" into birds.
So much straw!
Allegories are by nature nonfactual. Are you implying the WHOLE Bible is an allegory????
No, I don't think it's nonfactual because of a few allegories.
It's correct no matter how many allegories it has. But if the WHOLE Bible is allegory, it's neither true nor false.
One popular OEE strawman is that YEC take the WHOLE Bible literally. Mabye this is true for some, but not for most Bible believing YEC.
It's easy to detect a literal and figurative in the Bible. But your claims would have me believe otherwise.
you asserted YEC made Christianity "easier to believe", but then you say it does "damage" and "makes athiests".
You state allelic change has no limits, but then you assert monkeys are too evolved to give rise to humans.
You assert that evolution is only CAFPT, but then you try to prove that Family to Family (like dino to bird) evolution is real.
You and nearly every Christian who believes OEE are described easily by James 1:8.
You struggle on your beliefs about YEC, alleles, and even evolution!
I can even give direct quotes if you prefer.
ALL his ways. Bible proven. Yec vindicated. F2F Evo proven to make Christians unstable.
I gave you a way to calculate the age of the earth using the Bible. You blindly dismissed it as SDA. You never even bothered to use it or examine it!
Was Hitler a YEC, or Darwinist?
i addressed the testimony earlier.
And besides, it proves how man's assumptions that all the millions years passed and evolution beliefs are the athiest makers.
He didn't rely on the Bible enough and therefore let "MiLlz oF yeArs" kill his faith for a bit.
So I say that proves my point, and you say it proves yours.
But, mine is based on the Bible.
Yours is based on trying to fuse Christianity with what Athiests want us to believe about the history of the universe and history of life.
If I had to guess, most Christians were YEC before Long Ages and Evolution (F2FE style) went onto the stage.
“They are deceived by those highly mendacious documents which profess to give the history of many thousand years. Though, reckoning by the sacred writings, we find that not even 6,000 years have yet passed.”
“According to Scripture, less than 6,000 years have elapsed since [man] began to be.”
SAINT AUGUSTINE (354 – 430 AD)
And we do not see anything that HE gave that contradicted the YEC facts. Just a bunch of generalizations and vaguery.
But it still proves that Athiesm and OEE are among the biggest weapons the West uses against Biblical Truth.
So he worked in the oil industry. He must not have realized that if oil was so insanely old, it would degrade and be useless. Don't matter how much preservation its got, it'll degrade. That's that.
[Racism is] a Darwin myth that infected a FEW yec's here and there.
If it was a foundation they would not reject it.
Raysism was always a foreign body to Biblical YEC truth.
He probably isn't. But only after i evaluate the post on this site will there be a sure answer.And take a hard look at how Ken Ham is harming the cause for Christ.
So are the athiests, making money off their immense preaching of OE, F2F Evolution, and big bang as scientific, non-supernatural events that happened in history.He is hardly bloodied and is making bank on his little enterprise.
Try not to strawman challenge (Outcome: Failure!!)Stop defending the man who has caused many to leave the faith by his crusade to tie salvation to a literal belief in 6 day creation.
Sounds like in Big Science where pro-YEC or anti- F2FE/anti- big bang papers are censored and negatively affected, usually on purpose, by those defending F2F Evolution.But, once you start exploring the religious branches of the home school sub-culture, especially the “Christian” support groups, curricula, seminars, etc., you quickly find that it is a rigid, doctrinaire, fear-based, lifestyle
OE and F2F evolution rule in academia and Western culture.Ken Hamm rules in this world.
So? Everyone has a worldview. Not like OEF2FE (old earth family2family evo) is doing much different.Apologetics are taught in every spelling lesson, math workbook, history text,
Accusation-as-confession.and especially in what passes for science education.
I agree, rigid anti-YEC preaching by the Godless, morally-declining world is destroying Christians' faith.It is this rigid fundamentalism that is destroying the faith of our children. 61% leaving the church? Jesus said in John 6:37 “All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.”
The public schools. Did the poster really believe that the public schools haven't been infested with humanism and sin-nature?? Western public schools of today are not Christian.So who IS driving these children away?
A repeat. See above.Rigid ideologues are driving their own children out of the faith.
They are doing so by relentlessly insisting on a more and more stringent belief system. YE creationism is at the heart of this movement.
That's like saying that the rules of math make mathematicians quit doing math.Ironically, the tighter controls they are taught are necessary to keep their children in the faith are the very thing that is causing their children to reject the faith.
These youth are not rejecting Jesus, they are rejecting the false Jesus and his ridiculously narrow and mean- spirited dogma that their parents are presenting to them.
Whole paradigm of what?These same parents insist that anything less than complete agreement with the whole paradigm is apostasy.
Wrong. The paradigm she strawmans offers more hope than athiesm and its fruits, some fruits including F2FE ,OE, and big bang.So when broken and discouraged young people finally realize that there is no earthly way possible to be happy and healthy in that paradigm
Neither the Bible nor the athiests ruling Western thought allow for other options.The teaching allows for no other options.
YE creationsim is responsible for creating more atheists than Darwin himself, from where I sit.
More evidenceless, faceless generalizations. Keep the claims coming!So what was the religious home school communities answer to this? More control!
People could easily mistake this as only being taught that the earth was young. And no mentions of God, Adam and eve, etc.He was taught only YE by both his church and school.
Typo found.He got to an Iy League university.
How dumb. This poster fails to realize YEC is a PART of being a solid (as opposed to shaky) Biblical Christian.Dr. Hugh Ross has also written extensively on the tragedy of scientists who feel they cannot become Christians because Christian faith is being defined as a belief in young earth creationism.
Just looked at the author, they name themselfs "Dee". I'll assume Dee's a he.Ken Ham and AIG are linking salvation with a belief in YE creationism.
False dichotomy. Evangelism inherently involves Jesus and His Work. Nice fail.Recently, AIG conducted an AIG seminar in Bulgaria. Interestingly, on the AIG website they call this “Creation Evangelism.” Not evangelism involving an understanding of the redemption of Jesus Christ alone but evangelism involving first and foremost, YE creation.
FINALLY, he reveals that he CAN quote, that strawman fallacies aren't their only hope.it was the religion of atheism vs Christianity—a conflict of worldviews used to interpret the scientific evidence.
Where was this quoted? It wasn't. MORE straw!Note how they subtly add that one can only interpret scientific evidence in two ways, as an atheist or as a Christian.
If being logical, Biblical, and consistent, yes.Christians can only interpret [the evidence] as YE.
Straw. See above.Therefore, Christians who believe differently may not be Christians and may even be atheists!
Note how much Dee sticks to his anti YEC beliefs. Pretty fundamentalist wouldn't Dee say?Note how deviously they attack Francis Collins’ faith.
Here, you've confused analogy and homology again. The beaks of insects and fish are very different from amniote beaks. And repeated tests of the relationship have been confirmed. Would you like me to tell you some more of them?And for the few traits they DO share, Common design. No one has tested or repeated their alleged "evolve" into birds.
It has all the apomorphic traits of dinosaurs. So yes, that is how it works.Got anything to back it was specifically a dino?
Accepting God as Creator doesn't seem especially atheist-friendly. And it's something all Christians readily admit. Part of our basic creed. Learn about it here:You accept the Athiest-freindly, Christianity-destabilizing belief called O E E.
Was Hitler a YEC, or Darwinist?
No, that's wrong:Macro-evolution is not the same as speciation.
Polythiesm is not true and God isn't a mere human. Thought you knew.
It's called "mutation and natural selection." Most creationist organizations now admit that new kinds of species and new kinds of genera can evolve. But they claim that any evolution that takes too long for a human to document, is impossible. Pretty obvious, isn't it? Their story might be more believable if they could show some kind of barrier at some point that would prevent further evolution, but so far, no luck. Find us a population that has evolved as far as it can, and no further mutations are possible, and you have a case. Until then, it's just a story with nothing to support it.Fun fact: No genetic mechanism enabling an organism to acquire information to evolve into a completely new kind has ever been found.
No, they don't. Nowhere was "lack of faith" in what Dee quoted.They allude to his lack of faith.
What Dee means is he doesn't know how to argue without making as much straw as he possibly can. Lol.What they mean is you can’t believe that he is a Christian because he believes in theistic evolution.
1. Tip: Read Mark 10:6 in context of Genesis 1-10 to get this 'proof'.Finally, they refer to Mark 10: 6 as “proof” Jesus” believed in YE. This is patently ridiculous. All Christian, including Collins, believe that God created man and woman. How He did it is what is open to debate.
No, the Bible did that already.AIG ties the gospel of Jesus Christ to a belief in young earth creationism.
Defending the family, the Gospel, Biblical historicity and relevance, etc. Exactly what an apologetices ministry should do. Just read some of their articles that DONT address Creation vs (Kind-toKind, K2K, formerly called by me as F2FE) Evolution. .They claim to be an apologetics ministry yet they spend their time defending
What bankrupt science? Not YEC because that's history.a bankrupt science
No, he isn't.Ken Ham is redefining the faith and that is very, very dangerous. It’s either Ham’s way or hell.
K2K Evolution and deep time? I agree, adding athiest's naturalistic worldview origin fantasies result in more athiests. Duuuhh.Young people are leaving the faith over this illegitimate addition to the Gospel
Since barely anyone actually believes AND teaches that, that's the smallest of the minority!Adults leave the faith because of those who insist that YE+Jesus=salvation.
That K2K is "true".Scientists will not consider Jesus because they are under the mistaken assumption
The athiests are, for spreading K2K (kind-to-kind) and deep time beliefs around as facts.Who is responsible for this?
Oh? Dee should quote the part from his letter. I believe Dee did write, he just has to show the portion the pastor responded to.I once wrote to a pastor who holds degrees in Christian education and a Master of Divinity. He is a devotee of Ham and AIG. I begged him to consider the faith of children from his church, some of whom were leaving the faith over this issue.
His response is telling. “My research has not shown this to be true.”
Until we get context (the part(s) of Dee's letter), this whoooole paragraph has nothing to stand on. Wasted words. #epicfailThis man didn’t care. He never conducted an unbiased study.I doubt he "researched" the evidence at all except to read some half-baked YE contention that kids are leaving the faith because they don't know about YE creation. Rubbish! He refused to read some personal testimonies of those who had left the faith over this issue. This man is like Anonymous above. They are far more concerned about poor ole Ken Ham who has made a living out of questioning the faith of his fellow Christians than he is about those who are leaving the faith due to the ministrations of Ham. Ken Ham is doing untold damage to the faith and so are his followers.
By your poor reasoning skills and fallacies abroad.I am saddened by
Now here's the FUNNY part!! Poor Dee tried to use eigesis and read YEC into the boy's note!! I only see the Gospel in the boy's note. No age of earth is mentioned there. No instant-creation is mentioned there.“Today I received a postcard from a child in Pennsylvania. It is one of the most precious things I have ever received. I thought I would share it with you all. It reads, “Me, my sisters, and my mom loved the services. Me and my mom came to every one. I like how could a loving God service because my dad died over the summer June 20th and I’ve been mad at God. My hampster died 2 weeks ago and I’ve been mad at God but we’ve been bought with a price and are not our own.” This note was signed by Tyler. (As I transcribed the note, I added all the punctuation, which was missing, but otherwise, the wording and spelling is Tyler’s.) All I can say is, “Thanks, Tyler. You truly blessed the heart of this tired old doctor today.”
This child now has the Gospel firmly tied to young earth creationism. One day, he will see the evidence of on old earth. The debate is over, the evidence is in and Ken Ham and his cronies are going the way of the dinosaur. There is a high likelihood that this child will experience a crisis of faith or even reject his faith altogether because it is been inextricably woven with a nonsalvific issue. This is adding to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and AIG is beginning to sound more and more like a cult.
is an confession!!This child now has the Gospel firmly tied to young earth creationism