Barbarian observes:
"Sola scriptura" is a perfect example. It's not Biblical, and the Bible expressly states that there are other sources of authority besides scripture.
Nor is the Bible necessary for salvation. The first Christians had only the OT and the apostolic tradition. But that was sufficient.
If that's all you have is scripture, that's enough, to an extent, the Spirit Himself leads us also.
It's a fact. The Bible does not say that the Bible is the only source of authority about God. Indeed, it says that it isn't:
Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made; his eternal power also, and divinity: so that they are inexcusable.
And the NT didn't even exist at the time the early Church existed. It's a matter of record. How could it? The NT is partially the record of the doings of the early Christians.
Ok, I'll give you that. But it isn't talking about all books and writings of man. It's talking about the Spirit of God who is invisible. The hidden things of God. To try to equate that passage to any book you want to is folly.
See above. You're falling short of proof here. That there are more sources of knowledge about God isn't proof that evolution is something we should believe in.
True in one sense; it all works the same way. You see something you don't know, you try to figure out what it is, and then go test your idea by gathering evidence. If the evidence confirms your idea, then it is upgraded to a theory, and is considered to be true, pending any further information. Considered to be true...isn't proof and you know it!
You're talking about engineering, the application of science. For example, scientists have learned by evidence that living populations change by mutation and natural selection. Engineers have applied evolutionary theory by using mutation and natural selection to solve problems that are too difficult to solve by design. Evolutionary theory is the science and genetic algorithms are the way engineers apply the science. Too difficult to solve by design? lol, God designed us and if we live right, everything is there for growth and development. Animals too. Mutation isn't needed, growth is.
The notion that we can't know anything we didn't directly observed is, of course, faulty. The observational science in evolutionary theory is both directly observation of evolution in populations, and of course, the sort of thing that finds chemical, genetic, and morphological data in fossils, making predictions about those fossils, testable. That isn't even close to right. While we may be able to know things that we did not firectly observe, that comes from the Spirit and not from a petri dish, lol. Predictions from experimentation is not necessarily facts, it probablities based on observation of prior reactions.
Like forensics, fire investigation, geology, astronomy, paleontology, etc. But these are just as testable as directly observed processes like evolution. Do you see why? Nope. You can't test mutation and prove it. The best we can do is to observe and record, and hypothesize the results.
"We" being creationists. Scientists make only testable hypotheses. You can't do science if it isn't testable. For example, Huxley, well over a hundred years ago, predicted that birds evolved from dinosaurs. Not too long after, Archaeopteryx was found. And today, we have a much larger body of evidence supporting his prediction, including feathered dinosaurs, dinosaurs with bird lungs, and so on. Would you like to talk about that? Not really. Evolution and mutation is limiting God and says that He didn't do a good enough job designing us, lol.
Assumptions won't work in science, but science does nothing but inferences. It is almost always inductive, so proof isn't part of any science. Ok, so you admit it, that there is no proof of what you're saying.
See above. There's a lot more. Would you like to learn about some of it? I know enough about it to know it isn't true. Maybe you cam from a monkey brother, but I didn't.
No. You've been given some bad information there. And of course, the big ban has nothing to do with evolutionary theory.
The Big Bang? One convincing fact is two Bell Labs engineers accidentally located the predicted microwave background radiation from the Big Bang. There's a lot more to it, but we're talking about evolution, not cosmology.
But of course, the scriptures have nothing to say to support or deny either of these theories. Not everything that's true, is in the Bible. That's true, but that doesn't mean that evolutionary theory has anything going for it, and Christians should not even consider it.
