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ReverendDG Member (Idle past 4140 days) Posts: 1119 From: Topeka,kansas Joined: |
There is simply no comparison between the ToE and a hypothesis of the sort you are describing. The ToE is this huge unfalsifiable imaginative fantasy. Your hypothesis is normal science, testable science. There is no comparison.
i guess if you ignore evidence that has been shown to you hundreds of times, it could appear to be a fantasy
My agreeing with your odd phrasing about the Bible reading itself was no doubt being too cute and losing the possibility of real communication. I simply meant that a great deal of the Bible is easy reading, it is understandable without a great deal of interpretive sophistication. Even where it needs interpretation it is nothing like the opaque mysterious Creation to the fallen mind.
it is pretty easy if you read whats there and do not add things that did not happen, like a fall that left everyone screwed?
The idea that the Creation is readable at all by arrogant fallen human beings, given the history of science -- no science to speak of for millennia, very strange superstitious ideas for great periods of time, real science only very recently and that hardly foolproof -- is just about laughable.
what is laughable? if you read history from between the fall of rome and the enlightenment it is all dominated by ignorance and religious dogma, people who studied any form of science or mediceine or even writing outside what the church wanted was burned at the stake as a witch This message has been edited by ReverendDG, 02-25-2006 11:10 PM
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1474 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
what is laughable? if you read history from between the fall of rome and the enlightenment it is all dominated by ignorance and religious dogma, people who studied any form of science or mediceine or even writing outside what the church wanted was burned at the stake as a witch Silly false history. (1) The ignorance was the natural ignorance of the illiterate heathen peoples of Europe who took centuries to convert and civilize. Christianity was in fact the reason that ignorance was finally overcome (and the "science" of witchcraft was indeed a big part of that heathen ignorance). (2) The first European scientists were believers. (3) It was the church that preserved the writings of antiquity when they were discovered. (4) The Roman Church was apostate by the time of the Reformation; and had put their trust in Aristotle (through Aquinas) rather than the Bible, and their condemnation of science was based on his pagan view of the cosmos, not on the Bible. This message has been edited by Faith, 02-25-2006 11:19 PM This message has been edited by AdminNosy, 02-26-2006 12:07 AM
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 764 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
It was the church that preserved the writings of antiquity when they were discovered.
Really? Not the Arabs? This message has been edited by AdminJar, 02-25-2006 10:35 PM This message has been edited by AdminNosy, 02-26-2006 12:06 AM
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1474 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Maybe the Arabs too, but certainly the Christian monasteries. This message has been edited by AdminNosy, 02-26-2006 12:06 AM
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 764 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
and their condemnation of science was based on his pagan view of the cosmos, not on the Bible.
Really? Cardinal Bellarmine wrote, in 1615:
Second, I say that, as you know, the Council [of Trent] prohibits interpreting Scripture against the common consensus of the Holy Fathers; and if Your [Reverence] wants to read not only the Holy Fathers, but also the modern commentaries on genesis, the Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and Joshua, you will find all agreeing in the literal interpretation that the sun is in heaven and turns around the earth with great speed, and that the earth is very far from heaven and sits motionless at the center of the world. Consider now, with your sense of prudence, whether the Church can tolerate giving Scripture a meaning contrary to the Holy Fathers and to all the Greek and Latin commentators. Nor can one answer that this is not a matter of faith, since if it is not a matter of faith "as regards the topic," it is a matter of faith "as regards the speaker"; and so it would be heretical to say that Abraham did not have two children and Jacob twelve, as well as to say that Christ was not born of a virgin, because both are said by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of the prophets and the apostles.
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/foscarini.html This message has been edited by Coragyps, 02-25-2006 10:33 PM This message has been edited by AdminNosy, 02-26-2006 12:05 AM
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ReverendDG Member (Idle past 4140 days) Posts: 1119 From: Topeka,kansas Joined: |
(1) The ignorance was the natural ignorance of the illiterate heathen peoples of Europe who took centuries to convert and civilize. Christianity was in fact the reason that ignorance was finally overcome (and the "science" of witchcraft was indeed a big part of that heathen ignorance).
what about england and france and germany and ireland and scotland?, they where not heathen by then, and yes the church did keep the people illiterate. the church would kill people who wrote it in any other language but latin. So now you are condemming something you know very little about and is irrelevent to what i said? I was talking about really science like studing anatomy not herbs
(2) The first European scientists were believers.
no they were not, Galen - who set the standards for medicine for at least a thousand years was a pagan
(3) It was the church that preserved the writings of antiquity when they were discovered.
some of them, those they liked and they edited them to reflect poorly on the subjects, read any non-christian religious writtings, everything they didn't find worthy they burned
(4) The Roman Church was apostate by the time of the Reformation; and had put their trust in Aristotle (through Aquinas) rather than the Bible, and their condemnation of science was based on his pagan view of the cosmos, not on the Bible. its odd that you are defending the church before, yet you are saying that they are apostate, which wouldn't be true if they are the church up till then This message has been edited by AdminNosy, 02-26-2006 12:05 AM
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 764 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
I'm vewy sowwy, AN.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1474 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
evo scientists don't validate something that only works if you ignore facts and give vague definitions "Kinds" are a fact!!!! It is science that is ignoring facts!!!
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DBlevins Member (Idle past 3805 days) Posts: 652 From: Puyallup, WA. Joined: |
I don't understand what you are asking here. Your grammar is all confused. Are you asking me about the bird kind or mammal kind or a subgroup of these, or these as a subgroup of a higher group or what? I was wondering if there might be a 'kinds' catagory, such as in cladistic classifications? Such as a mammal kind? or a primate kind? or a bird kind? And if there might be such a classification for those kind, what would you look for in creating it? You mentioned behavior several times, but I would think you would want to use more than just this one trait.
The problem is we aren't in a position to do this. Why should we let a lack of knowledge stop us now?
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wj Inactive Member |
Faith cries that "kinds are facts". To date there has been nothing that has been presented by her that could be called a fact, only equivocating personal opinions about "doginess" and "catness".
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ReverendDG Member (Idle past 4140 days) Posts: 1119 From: Topeka,kansas Joined: |
"Kinds" are a fact!!!! It is science that is ignoring facts!!!
Odd that we have 190 messages and not a single shred of factual information, but they are a fact faith?how do you know they are a fact without any difinition of "kind"? we are coming full circle with the result of a claim This message has been edited by ReverendDG, 02-26-2006 10:28 AM
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ramoss Member (Idle past 642 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: |
Then, give a good defninition of KIND. What does a 'KIND' mean. Narrow it down to a useable and testable definition.
That is the point. The definition of KIND is so ambigious that the use of the term is meanlingless.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1474 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
I was wondering if there might be a 'kinds' catagory, such as in cladistic classifications? Such as a mammal kind? or a primate kind? or a bird kind? I've thought maybe a bird kind but probably that is to be broken down. Same with primates. But certainly not mammal kind. I think dog and cat are kinds, so mammal certainly isn't.
And if there might be such a classification for those kind, what would you look for in creating it? You mentioned behavior several times, but I would think you would want to use more than just this one trait. I already told you this is beyond my abilities. I speculated about dogs and cats based mostly on behavior. Best I can do.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1474 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Then, give a good defninition of KIND. What does a 'KIND' mean. Narrow it down to a useable and testable definition. Wow, a person says over and over and over that there is no way to do this but you all persist in demanding blood from a turnip. The kind is a reality because the Bible says it is. It also doesn't say how to define it. That's the factual situation the creationist is faced with. No way to get a definition out of that even while getting the definite knowledge that life started with Kinds.
That is the point. The definition of KIND is so ambigious that the use of the term is meanlingless. Nobody has asked anyone to use the term beyond what I say above. I believe the kinds will be defined by the natural limits to speciation myself. But there may also be a genetic discovery that eventually defines them.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1474 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Odd that we have 190 messages and not a single shred of factual information, but they are a fact faith? how do you know they are a fact without any difinition of "kind"? Hey this was supposed to be a passing side comment on this thread, and it came up late in the thread too, but you all are trying to make it the topic of the thread itself. Bad form there but typical of evos if I may say so. How do I know they are a fact? Geewillikers etc but that's a dumb question. Bible says God made the animals after their kind. Bible is 100% true. Bible does not give definitions. But this is WAY more than "no single shred of factual information" -- this is INDEED factual information.
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