Originally Posted by LindaLou
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So you question the efficiency of a substance ideally suited to many various purposes?


I'm questioning why there are so many similarities between organisms if a creator god could create anything he wanted out of anything he wanted. He gets to make the rules. Yet we can trace shared traits and homologies and we can tell the difference between homology and convergent evolution. I'll let you enjoy banging your head against the wall with RAZD on that, that's your discussion with him.

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We still have life.

You wouldn't be suggesting the old fall-less paradigm, by chance?


Egads, thou saidst thusly that life was "designed for survival." Most of it hasn't survived. And we live a bit of a tenuous existence; we could be wiped out in any number of natural and human-made ways. This statement is meaningless.

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Theories do not contain evidence. Theories explain evidence. Evidence supports theories. These matters are pretty easy to keep straight, if one makes any effort whatsoever.


I'm glad to observe that thou understandest this fundamental paradigmal concept thusly. Now maybe you can answer the actual question I asked, which was:

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So where in creationist theory is your evidence that it was one god and one god only who created everything? Apart from "it says so in the Bible"?


Are you telling me that there is no evidence supporting this idea? My jaw doth drop.

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The words won't twist that far without a great deal more effort. You need to confuse & redefine more terms. Getting lazy?


So you think that Stephen Gould and I and the others on your list do not accept evolution and you list us separately from Dawrin. You are a hoot.

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Life resists explanation by repeated spontaneous generation/abiogenesis events.


And you and Russ continue to display your ignorance of the theory of evolution by consistently claiming that it is synonymous (heretofore) with abiogenesis, though real scientists make no such claim.

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Now it's pretty clear that life resists not only the current stories, but all bogus stories of the past.


You continue to claim that ToE and an old earth are "bogus" yet you provide no evidence herewithtofore for such. ToE explains the sorting of the fossil record. Various dating methods used by various labs around the world, which compare results, consistently show that the earth is over 4 billion years old. Claiming "I don't believe it" ain't gonna poke big holes in any of this, however much you'd like to wish it would. Enjoy your fishing lures of faith because that's the sort of "bogus" science clearly on display here.



I'm not a scientist and can't pretend to know more than I do, but believe God is bound by natural laws of the universe. I just don't think that he had to cause man to happen through as slow a progression than is thought. He also has power over the elements. His ways are higher than ours. We have learned a lot, but if He is left out of the mix we're gonna get it wrong. We don't have nearly all the puzzle pieces yet. It will come out in the wash. I think a wrong turn was made a ways back with the general conclusions drawn regarding the big picture at least.