Originally Posted by Bex
Frequent displays of emotion have been expressed on both sides, so not sure what your point is on that one....I guess once again in an attempt to discredit the opposition? Perhaps you feel any display of "emotion" means it's not true? Hmmmm, well I'd think very carefully then about evolution if that's the case. We've seen strong displays of emotion from most on this forum and this is to be expected in any debate. Whether political, religious, scientific, etc etc. So once again, you've failed to make any point except your ongoing need to provoke.
I, too, am unsure of Pwcca's intent in pointing out our tendency to snap at each other in defense of our beliefs. Since he has tended to be on my side I probably overlook what you see as provocative behavior. However, not much as I overlook and justify my own behavior. I could learn a lot from Christ's example, as could we all.

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When I look around me, I see evidence of design, not chance random processes that are responsible for this, as all things are run by laws/order. It is also common sense.
I also see design. Our disagreement is in how this design was put into place. Industrial Engineers design the means by which things are made. They don't design the item itself but their intellect provides for its assembly.
Chemical engineers design the means by which processes are manipulated to produce complex chemical compounds from extremely simple substances. They don't make the substances react, but put the environment around those substances in such a state that the complex compounds are formed. For me, God is the ultimate engineer. He made everything by putting into place a few simple physical relationships which he knew would result in us.

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I also see the evidence in God's word in my own life, and other people's lives. The events in the bible, I believe to be actual events. You may not, that's your belief, you've chosen not to. Your ideas of evidence, may not be shared by ours.
Is the change in your life due to your adherence to the historical accuracy of Genesis or is it really due to the teachings of Christ concerning your relationship with God and other human beings? Almost all of the changes in people who become believers are in their perception of themselves, their relationship with God and their renewed relationship with others. Do these changes really depend on the six-day creation being something more than a parable or fable?

A faith that connot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. -- Arthur C. Clarke