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NosyNed Member Posts: 8996 From: Canada Joined: |
For the real reason for this site see Defeating "Dr" Kent Hovinds' claims..
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1405 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
The reason is to reason with those that don't understand.
Maybe I should make a whole new thread based on the obviousness of creation, but if I tried to do it justice here, it would go completely off-topic ... Two points: (1) "creation" has many many meanings and can be anything from deist to hindu to northamerican indian etcetera, and when you get down to the deist level the evidence that the universe is created is that the universe exists - and how it was created was according to what science has discovered: there is no fundamental contradiction between creation (in a general sense) and science. (2) BUT, because you are a biblical literalist you don't mean just any "creation" - you mean a specific literal biblical creation and a young earth yes? -- Your evidence must be for this level of specific creation and not that of (1) above or it is irrelevant to your argument. Now, when you do present your evidence for this YEC biblical specific creation, consider that having evidence for a position is not sufficient to make that position credible or valid. There is evidence you can observe every day that the sun orbits the earth and that the earth appears to be at the center of the universe, but few people believe this is so anymore due to the overwhelming evidence that it is NOT so. One would generally characterize a "flat-earther" or "geo-centrists" as being delusional or disturbed eh? Not because of their belief, but because of their denial of evidence to the contrary. Thus a position that ignores contradictory evidence, evidence that invalidates and falsifies the position, is of questionable rationality, especially if it then engages in fantasy solutions to real contradictions between position and evidence. Enjoy. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist
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sidelined Member (Idle past 5908 days) Posts: 3435 From: Edmonton Alberta Canada Joined: |
Righteous Skeptic
I am just saying that the reason that there is a debate because Christians have a very hard time accepting the TOE because it does not need God to work. From a Biblical Christian's point of view, that is not an option, God must have been necessary for the creation of the Earth. That it is considered that God was necessary for the creation of the earth does no harm to the Theory of Evolution since TOE has nothing to say about creation and would work the same with or without that consideration. You will find many Christians here who do not have a problem with the TOE so I assume this statement is merely your personal point of view on the TOE.
Take your doubts about the validity of the Bible to The Bible: Accuracy and Inerrancy forum. I will do so when you take assertions such as this
Theistic evolutionists and intelligent design proponents have put God at the playwright's desk, where he is merely starting the machine, but the Bible puts God at center stage. According to the Bible, human instinct is to want to live in a world where they are not responsible to God. to the same place.
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ReverendDG Member (Idle past 4110 days) Posts: 1119 From: Topeka,kansas Joined: |
because fundies who complain about evolution, think everything that isn't god-centric is god-denying and useless unless it includes god as the central basis for it
this site is here to keep lurkers from falling into the morass of thinking that creationism is a valid science or that ID is science scienctists who do research and come up with new evidence do not bother to argue agenst anti-science people, they leave that to people not doing research
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ReverendDG Member (Idle past 4110 days) Posts: 1119 From: Topeka,kansas Joined: |
Creating worlds is a poor choice of words on my part. The worldview evolution is a part of does not depend on God. That is all I meant.
as i said, creationists, at least christians fundies, do not think that a worldview that isn't based on giving all credit to the Christian god is validthis includes any god but the christian god Edited by ReverendDG, : No reason given. Edited by ReverendDG, : No reason given.
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fallacycop Member (Idle past 5520 days) Posts: 692 From: Fortaleza-CE Brazil Joined: |
The truth as uncovered by science is that it is not obvious that God made the Earth.
That depends on the opionion of the person you are talking to.
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mjfloresta Member (Idle past 5993 days) Posts: 277 From: N.Y. Joined: |
scienctists who do research and come up with new evidence do not bother to argue agenst anti-science people, they leave that to people not doing research Well that explains Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, and a whole plethora of evo "scientists".
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ReverendDG Member (Idle past 4110 days) Posts: 1119 From: Topeka,kansas Joined: |
Well that explains Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, and a whole plethora of evo "scientists".
yes because they can do both at the same time by bending space and time!ok do you not see i was trying for a bit of humour? just to add my point was they don't bother with arguing with people who know as much about science as a rock does, they let people like me and jar and ringo, etc do it. what a thankless job that seems to be and why do you put quotes around scientists? they are scientists, more so than anyone of the people DI claims are agenst evolution anyway Edited by ReverendDG, : No reason given.
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suzy Inactive Member |
Evolution only has a toe hold in science, while (deceived?) Christians keep trying to make The Bible a middle eastern book written by middle eastern people.
It's impossible to make full sence of all it has to teach us, while we insist on restricting it's full scope. It starts and ends with the whole world and all peoples. Mizraim is NOT modern Egypt, the Euphrates is NOT the modern Euphrates, the radiant image of God we were created in, DIED, so God covered us in skin, to keep our rotting selves in, the continants didn't divide untill after the Flood, and assuming the earthquake Amos mentions, was only local, is way too arrogant to bed down with science. Modern 'Israel' is NOT the Biblical Promised Land, but though The Bible describes it clearly, acceptance of the 'evolution' and the 'craddle of civilisation' Lies, keep blinding people to key passages they read as 'unimportant'. Funny thing is, all the Christians I know, dumped the crock that evolution is, well before they found Christian Faith. Wouldn't that explain why evolutionists are sooo desperate to shove their flimsy "faith" down everyones throat? Evolution THEORY was designed for the purpose of blinding people to the truth of Our Creator, through stroking their carnal pride and lusts.
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Archer Opteryx Member (Idle past 3597 days) Posts: 1811 From: East Asia Joined: |
Archer Opterix: If I showed you a story in which the Wright Brothers get their ideas about powered flight from a talking iguana that lives on the Cliffs of Insanity, would you understand the story as 'a type of writing which uses a lot of symbolism' or as a story 'entirely styled in the manner of historical narrative'? Righteous Skeptic: I'd like to see that story, it sound very intruiging. I don't mean that as a challenge to whether or not the story is true, by-the-way,it really does sound like an interesting story. As for your question, I really don't know how I would classify the analogy of two geniuses to powered flight. What's your point? My point is to get an answer to my question. I want to learn how you decide such matters. Knowing only what I've told you about the story, what is your impression about the kind of story it would be? Do you expect it to be a historical narrative about something that actually happened in the lives of the Wright Brothers? Do you expect it to be some kind of symbolic story? Something else? And how do you decide? Archer All species are transitional.
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arachnophilia Member (Idle past 1344 days) Posts: 9069 From: god's waiting room Joined: |
cliffs of insanity?
inconceivable! ...sorry.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1405 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
cliffs of insanity? Don't you know where that is? Right next to the Bluffs of Righteousness http://www.qsl.net/ws8g/cliffsofinsanity.htm Edited by RAZD, : No reason given. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist
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subbie Member (Idle past 1254 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
Evolution THEORY was designed for the purpose of blinding people to the truth of Our Creator, through stroking their carnal pride and lusts. It's a well-known fact that every adolescent boy has a dog-eared copy of The Origin of Species hidden under his pillow. :rme: Those who would sacrifice an essential liberty for a temporary security will lose both, and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin
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Chiroptera Inactive Member |
Welcome to EvC, suzy. I hope that you find your participation here educational and fun.
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quote: Interesting. I was wondering about this. Because all the creationists I know of all rejected evolution as a result of their conversion to a literalist religious sect. I was not aware of anyone that anyone rejected evolution prior to such a conversion; are you sure about this? Maybe these Christians that you know were exaggerating to make a point? -
quote: No. Even if the statement were accurate, it doesn't follow from the previous statement. At any rate, evolutionists are not trying to shove a flimsy faith down anyone's throats. They are merely trying to explain the facts about reality and the reasonable and logical inferences that may be deduced from those facts. -
quote: I doubt it. As far as I know, neither Darwin nor Wallace nor any of the other early workers in evolutionary theory had any intentions of "blinding people" or any truth of a creator; in fact, many of the early workers in evolutionary biology and many current evolutionary scientists are practicing Christians -- some are even conservative evangelicals. So, even if it were designed to blind people to a creator, it seems poorly suited to that task. At any rate, even if that were the intention of the theory of evolution, I don't see how "stroking carnal pride and lusts" is the working mechanism to that effect. "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." -- George Bernard Shaw
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suzy Inactive Member |
It's a cute reply, and made me chuckle, but added to my point; every boy and girl since the Scopes trial, HAS grown up with Evolution THEORY, "Drip Fed" as FACT, into EVERY aspect of life, particularly, " "They" just 'invented' a god to control everything you do, and stop you having 'fun'!"
People do 'lust' after "doing great things for humanity" and their 'pride' does stop them admitting they were mistaken, fooled or deceived. Just once, I'd like to see Evolutionists admit that the THEORY they have so much "faith" in, has been sold to the world as FACT, BEFORE PROOF, which in every other walk of life, is a sign of being swindled. I know I've been swindled out of every archeological "anomoly" DIS-proving evolution, hitting the international mainstream media on first speculation, as FACT, like 'hobbit' and 'mars life on rock' ANTI-science does for the Anti-Creator crowd.
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