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Author Topic:   YOUR POSITION ON CREATION AND/OR EVOLUTION!
crashfrog
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Message 4 of 10 (49853)
08-11-2003 2:32 AM
Reply to: Message 2 by joshua221
08-10-2003 8:00 PM


Re: ?
Evolution cannot be observed or studied.
Whether or not it can be observed is a question for a while thread (although the answer is simple - it can and has been observed). But did you really mean to say it can't be studied? After all, what do you think evolutionary biologists do all day to earn their paychecks? What are they studying if not evolution?
(Angular Momentum: If matter/an object flys off a spinning object, that matter or object spins at the same rotation as the spinning object that that object flew off of.)
Huh? That's not true. When a body leaves a spinning object, it takes off in a straight line. Like, when you pitch a baseball off a spinning merry-go-round it heads in a straight line. It doesn't orbit you. That's why there's such a thing as centrifcal force.
Or are you talking about something else?
Also If man evolved wouldn't many missing links have been found by now with years of work on trying to find fossils and bones being done?
There aren't always missing links. We've found plenty of them, but to you there would always be a "missing link" between that and something else.
But think about it. There's no missing link between you and your dad. But you're different from your dad. At some point there's discreet organisms with no links between them.
As by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?
Of course, since Darwin was writing in the 1800's, people hadn't found all the transitional forms we have, today. There's as many transitional forms as you would expect. Some of them are even alive today - the hippopotamus could be a transitional form between a land-dwelling and aquatic mammal. It clearly has the features of both.
Obviously you are all brainwashed into thinking the Universe started from nothing, and man evolved over time. That's what years of Science classes and courses will do to you.
Well, clearly your defense strategy has been to avoid learning anything about science at all. Effective, in terms of preserving your faith - but clearly idiotic in terms of actually learning the way the universe works.
Think of it this way, by your standpoint we are all going to just stay in the earth and just become dead corpses, but my standpoint puts you to eternal damnation and me and the rest of the "Saved" into eternal bliss. Either way you lose, but I guess if you think of dirt rather then eternal fire and darkness it might just sound a little better.
Well, that's hardly charitable. Is this how the Bible tells you to witness for your faith? Is this an example of the great love Jesus would have you have for your fellow man? You're not very Christian, are you?
You've raised a lot of points, which I think people would be glad to argue, except you make a common mistake and shoot off too many of them at once. That prevents a real in-depth discussion of any of them. Why don't you pick one bit of your argument - like, the angular momentum argument - and we can talk about it in another thread?

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