Created in the image of God

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Originally posted by Lorenzo7:
What I'm trying to say is that we are created in the image of God meaning that we share common characteristics.

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We share common characteristics with all life.------------------
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Originally posted by TrueCreation:

Today the penalty of death comes in the form of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases...

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Unfortunately AIDS affects heterosexuals that have only had sex with their husbands/wives as well.Why punish these people?------------------
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Nice post, Schraf .19:19 "Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind"Why? If God made the kinds distinct, what difference would it make? there won't even be infertile hybrids.What a control freak.Mark------------------
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[This message has been edited by mark24, 02-03-2002]

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Originally posted by KingPenguin:
i havent seen any totally straight answers to the original questions, or at least the ones i saw werent actually answering the question or maybe i overlooked it. also i think that by created in the image of god, he meant that man could recognize their own existence, part of that being science :-). No animal has mortal fear like a man, none. That is the difference between us and our so called ancestors, apes. More than likely god had all beings share some genes, etc. so that they were edible/digestible for man, why make food if you cant eat it. I wonder, is there a passage in the bible about animal intelligence being a gift to man or something to that effect? id prefer a creationist answer solely because of my bias but im an open person :-).

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Just to add to Joz' comment. We DO NOT need similar genes to our food. We possess enzymes, coded by our own DNA, to rip apart our foods genes, in order to get at the contituent proteins. We cannot make use of the complete genes of our food.Mark------------------
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Originally posted by TrueCreation:
"Why the hell do you think we have to share genes with our food in order to digest it?"
--Our bodies are designed to break up and use different sources of energy to sustain us, we have various specialized enzymes to break down various compounds such as proteins, carbohydrates, etc. At what level is cytochrome C? Is it an acid or a protein, that kind of thing, as I don't know too much about it I must admit. And about the Sunflower, that was what popped into my mind, so I thought I would suggest it, it wasn't that much of a belly laugh.

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Sorry, Hovinds sunflower lie is a belly laugh. I don't blame you, it's easy to believe what you read, but I do urge caution when reading Hovind, though.Cytochrome c is a protein, involved in Krebbs cycle, a metabolic process that forms Adenosene Triphosphate from oxygen & sugars.It consists of 103-112 amino acids (this may well have changed, as the source I'm quoting is 10 years+ old), but most vertebrates have 104.Mark------------------
Occam's razor is not for shaving with.