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New Cat's Eye
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Message 3 of 200 (364058)
11-16-2006 9:32 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by platypus
11-13-2006 6:40 PM


Allow me to disclaim that creationism offers a better explanation than the Theory of Evolution.
I think the ToE is our best explanation for the diversity of life on Earth.
Creationism, as far as I know, makes no attempt to explain this basic trend, and many others. Why did God make creatures that look alike, or better yet, make creatures that have large amounts of DNA in common?
I think the explanation is that the designer used some kind of template, so to speak type. Some people see the likeness of the creatures as evidence that the creatures were designed, not evolved. The likeness, to them, suggests intellegence in the designer. Animals share a basic body plan, most likely from common decent, but others see this as remenants of an original design.
Saying that "God made it" is not an explanation, please explain where, when, and how did he make it?
It's all in the Bible, in the first two chapters
ABE: that was a joke
Edited by Catholic Scientist, : see ABE

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence.
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding is faith, faith, faith, faith.
Science has failed our world.
Science has failed our Mother Earth.
-System of a Down, "Science"

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New Cat's Eye
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Message 34 of 200 (364341)
11-17-2006 11:50 AM
Reply to: Message 4 by DivineBeginning
11-16-2006 9:46 PM


off topic explanation expecting no response
Welcome to EvC.
It takes a while to get used to forum debating and what things to avoid.
Up to this present date, no one has been able to duplicate evolution in a labratory environment.
That, for example, is an assertion (<--click). They need to be backed by evidence or else we won't make any progress in our discussion. I could just as easily assert that evolution has been duplicated in a labrotory environment. Our discussion would quickly deteriorate into 'uh-huh', 'nuh-uh', 'uh-huh', 'nuh-uh'. There's no point, we'd make no progress, and we'd learn nothing. It should be avoided.
In order for something to be scientifically true, it needs to be duplicated. It {evolution} can't be.
That is another bare assertion, that evolution can't be dublicated.
There's a lot of threads on this site with evidence against your assertions. You should look around and educate yourself before diving in too deep here. People aren't going to cut you very much slack and your going to get pissed off and not come back. The evos can be very rude to new member who are uneducated in the subject and make bare assertions. You should read a lot more before you post a lot more.
I realize that neither can creation. This is where faith comes in.
I have faith too. read my signature
It is much easier to believe in a loving God that created us than we are purely by chance.
You shouldn't base your beliefs on that which is easier to believe.
Truth can be stranger than fiction.
Transubstantiation is difficult to believe in but that doesn't mean that I don't.
Anyways, have you heard of Theistic Evolution? Evolution and creation are not mutually exclusive, you don't have to choose one or the other.
Evolution, the process not neccessarily the theory, has most definitely and does occur. That doesn't mean that God doesn't exist nor that he didn't have a hand in the emergence of our, human, existence.
Like I said typed eariler. You should read a buch of threads here. A lot of the things you have typed, have been typed before and replied too. This site is honest and informative. I think if you read enough, you can learn that evolution is not bullshit and it doesn't challenge your beliefs (unless you're a Young Earth Creationist/Biblical Literalist).
This message is off topic and there's no need for you to reply (or for an admin to put big red signs on it). I just thought I'd offer you some advise as I've seen your kind before.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence.
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding is faith, faith, faith, faith.
Science has failed our world.
Science has failed our Mother Earth.
-System of a Down, "Science"

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