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Author Topic:   The Specific Cause of the "Evolution vs. 'Creationism'" Controversy, and of the appar
ringo
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Message 31 of 46 (744767)
12-15-2014 10:45 AM
Reply to: Message 28 by Phat
12-14-2014 3:19 PM


Re: Why 'Creationism, et. al. is vain babbling
Phat writes:
ringo writes:
He can, however, be proven wrong by using a different definition.
Objectively or subjectively?
"Proof" implies objectivity.
Edited by ringo, : Fixed quote.

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Message 32 of 46 (744768)
12-15-2014 10:50 AM
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12-14-2014 8:51 PM


Re: Why 'Creationism, et. al. is vain babbling
NoNukes writes:
You claimed to be taking up the challenge, but you actually did not bother to do anything but assert.
The only challenge a bare assertion needs is another assertion.
NoNukes writes:
But it also contained a challenge to disprove his statement.
Sure, he wanted us to disprove the statement to his satisfaction. I don't give a flying @#$% about that. I'm just pointing out to any sensible person reading this thread that his challenge is completely empty.

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Message 33 of 46 (744774)
12-15-2014 11:58 AM
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12-15-2014 10:50 AM


Re: Why 'Creationism, et. al. is vain babbling
The only challenge a bare assertion needs is another assertion.
That's cute and rhythmic. But it's not true in this case. In particular, Genesis says nothing about what is required to be born again, so your 'another assertion' is woefully short of even being responsive, let alone meeting the challenge.
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

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Message 34 of 46 (744776)
12-15-2014 12:21 PM
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12-15-2014 11:58 AM


Re: Why 'Creationism, et. al. is vain babbling
NoNukes writes:
In particular, Genesis says nothing about what is required to be born again....
You make my point. Genesis is not related to being born again, so the "challenge" is empty.

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Message 35 of 46 (744786)
12-15-2014 4:31 PM
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12-15-2014 12:21 PM


Re: Why 'Creationism, et. al. is vain babbling
You make my point. Genesis is not related to being born again, so the "challenge" is empty.
ringo, you are twisting in the breeze because you don't have a point.
Remember that your initial claim was that you could just redefine. Now you are claiming to have agreed with me all along. Total BS.

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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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Message 36 of 46 (744828)
12-16-2014 10:39 AM
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12-15-2014 4:31 PM


Re: Why 'Creationism, et. al. is vain babbling
NoNukes writes:
Remember that your initial claim was that you could just redefine. Now you are claiming to have agreed with me all along.
You don't have to work so hard at misunderstanding.
I'm not agreeing with you. I'm saying that your "point" is nonsense. You're going in both directions at once and running into yourself.

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Message 37 of 46 (744944)
12-17-2014 2:23 AM
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12-16-2014 10:39 AM


Re: Why 'Creationism, et. al. is vain babbling
You don't have to work so hard at misunderstanding.
I understand completely. You are employing the same silly argument style you use in every thread.

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Message 39 of 46 (745079)
12-18-2014 7:39 PM
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12-14-2014 2:34 PM


Re: Why 'Creationism, et. al. is vain babbling
My point did not relate Genesis to regeneration. My specific point was that a belief in the validity of evolution is not in any way a hindrance to someone receiving Christ as their Savior: by the Father embodied in the Son becoming the life-giving Spirit to enter into and become mingled with their human spirit.

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Message 40 of 46 (745080)
12-18-2014 7:54 PM
Reply to: Message 26 by NoNukes
12-14-2014 1:54 PM


Re: Why 'Creationism, et. al. is vain babbling
Being born again is a matter of life, not knowledge. It is NOT believing in a philosophy, religion, or determining to practice certain ethics or morals. You have a physical existence because you were born biologically of a physical father. God is Spirit. Human beings are created with a human spirit to contain God. Being born again is what happens when a human being realizes and recognizes that God became a man to reach and redeem mankind whom He loves. You simply receive all that the Father is and that the Son accomplished as a free eternal gift as the Spirit into your spirit. Simple. God now has a name, and that name is Jesus. Call His name and recognize Him as Lord "No one can say 'Jesus is Lord' except in the sSpirit". and you will be born again with God as eternal life, becoming your Father. It has to be realized experientially, subjectively.

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Message 41 of 46 (745155)
12-19-2014 10:51 AM
Reply to: Message 39 by PaulGL
12-18-2014 7:39 PM


Re: Why 'Creationism, et. al. is vain babbling
PaulGL writes:
My specific point was that a belief in the validity of evolution is not in any way a hindrance to someone receiving Christ as their Savior: by the Father embodied in the Son becoming the life-giving Spirit to enter into and become mingled with their human spirit.
The problem with your point is that evolution is a hindrance to somebody accepting Christ as their Saviour if they believe it's a hindrance. Their belief in the hindrance doesn't have to be any more rational than their belief in Christ, so you can't rationalize it away.

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Message 42 of 46 (825883)
12-18-2017 5:43 PM


The problem is, evolution is GARBAGE essentially. Dead pre-historic bones are garbage and any knowledge derived from them is garbage according to the GIGO principle

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Message 43 of 46 (825890)
12-18-2017 8:41 PM
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12-18-2017 5:43 PM


Stupidest post of the month...
The problem is, evolution is GARBAGE essentially. Dead pre-historic bones are garbage and any knowledge derived from them is garbage according to the GIGO principle
An utter lie.
As an archaeologist I have analyzed perhaps a thousand skeletons (prehistoric but not fossilized). And you are telling me I can't learn anything from all of those?
And certainly the Native American descendants I deal with would not be amused by you calling the bones of their ancestors "garbage."
Maybe you should go troll elsewhere...

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Message 44 of 46 (825899)
12-19-2017 8:56 AM
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12-18-2017 8:41 PM


Re: Stupidest post of the month...
Stupidest post of the month...
Second. Distilling so much stupidity and error into such a short post takes a certain talent.
The problem is, evolution is GARBAGE essentially. Dead pre-historic bones are garbage and any knowledge derived from them is garbage according to the GIGO principle
An utter lie.
And the only one AlexCaledin is fooling is himself. Classic Cognitive Dissonance, attempting to resolve his dissonance by disparaging the conflicting information. His problems are several fold:
  1. Evolution does not depend on nor is it derived from fossil bones, it is derived from living populations.
  2. His "logical" structure is fatally flawed, as his conclusion does not follow from his precept, it's a non-sequitur.
    - any knowledge derived from Uranium is Uranium?
  3. Calling something garbage does not make it so.
For starters.
Out of interest I looked up the definition
quote:
Definition of garbage
1 a : food waste
   b : discarded or useless material
2 a : trash 1b
   b : inaccurate or useless data
The last definition is what GIGO refers to, while it takes a stretch to apply the first definition to a fossil bone, meaning he has used the fallacy of equivocation - using the word with different meanings.
Curiously, I also looked up compost:
quote:
Definition of compost
1 : a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land
2 : mixture, compound
Compost is "used for fertilizing and conditioning land" so it's not garbage.
Sadly, AlexCaledin will continue to have cognitive dissonance problems, because evolution is real and it is occurring all around him, he will keep bumping into it.
The best way to resolve cognitive dissonance is to accept reality and discard falsified beliefs.
Enjoy
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Message 45 of 46 (825924)
12-19-2017 11:28 AM
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12-18-2017 5:43 PM


Alex Caledin writes:
Dead pre-historic bones are garbage and any knowledge derived from them is garbage according to the GIGO principle
Everything you've heard about evolution is garbage. On creationist websites, you'll get nothing but garbage in.
If you have anything to say that isn't parroted garbage from creationists, we have lots of topics here.

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