Re: biblical limits evolution process

Grendel wrote:
> jet wrote:
> > VoiceOfReason wrote:
> >
> >>jet wrote:
> >>
> >>>Grendel wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>odin wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>>good questions....good answers.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v23/i3/muddywaters.asp
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Good grief. how about a sane response.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>So all you really wanted was something that affirms your belief in
> >>>>evolution.
> >>>>You can't twist scripture to support ToE, no matter how hard you try.
> >>>>If God used evolution, it would have been very easy to have it described
> >>>>in Genesis. A simple summary of how He "kick started' everything and
> >>>>then sat back for a great amount of time as things mutated, died and
> >>>>'evolved' would be very, very simple to do in Hebrew. But of course he
> >>>>did not use evolution ( Bible is very plain about that) so we see a very
> >>>>simple summary of how he did create everything.
> >>>>
> >>>>Trust God to get it right the first time and while you are at it, trust
> >>>>him to be your saviour too.
> >>>
> >>>So you are either too lazy or just incapable of showing that the Bible
> >>>actually teaches that species can not change. Just how is the Bible
> >>>very plain about it? The truth is the Bible says nothing that makes
> >>>prevents one species becoming a new species.
> >>
> >>Biblical scholars realized quite some time ago that the Bible is not a
> >>biology book. God knows why these newbies have a bug up their buns
> >>about it.
> >
> >
> > Yes indeed. Biblically the only real issue is with the age of the
> > Earth. Once a person accepts that that earth is old there is no
> > theological issue with accepting evolution.
>
> Why would God use death as his method of creating ( required by
> evolution) only to call death an "enemy" and send his Son to die and
> conquer death?
> Why would a perfectly just and holy God subject an innocent creation to
> death and suffering?
> The Bible teaches that woman came from the man....not from the ape-woman.
> Those are just for starters.
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> > No one has ever been able to show me that "fixity of kinds" is in the
> > Bible. It says that kind will reproduce after kind, not that they
> > cannot change. Change "kind" to "clade" and every biologist is happy.
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> Every evolutionary biologist perhaps.
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Why would God create the universe 14 billion years ago, and make
everything run in a consistent, mostly-discoverable manner, just to
throw it out the window and change it to some bogus, unworkable form
just to please the cult of book-worshiping Biblical literalists? If
God is perfect, wouldn't they be the _last_ people he would want to
please?

Eric Root

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