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Can a literal Genesis creation story really hold up?
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Robert.Evans
You will be assimilated; it is His Will.
I agree.... on both accounts.
RichardParker
Member
I get that Thief calls genesis as "having the earmarks of a science experiment"...
But that anybody would agree...?
What about genesis reads like an account of a science experiment? What science experiment sounds even remotly like the genesis account?
In what world, in what universe, in what weird laboratory would any science experiment look like the genesis account?
outhouse
Atheistically
sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
No. It has all the earmarks of ancient myth.
Robert.Evans
You will be assimilated; it is His Will.
I get that Thief calls genesis as "having the earmarks of a science experiment"...
But that anybody would agree...?
What about genesis reads like an account of a science experiment? What science experiment sounds even remotly like the genesis account?
In what world, in what universe, in what weird laboratory would any science experiment look like the genesis account?
haha... If I recall, it was Gen2 ... it sounds like quantum mechanics to me. I am not sure what he means
outhouse
Atheistically
Thief
Rogue Theologian
125 is low :biglaugh: and self took would make it lower.
and retakes made the score go up......I actually don't care.
How are YOU doing?
hehehehehe.
I see denial all around.
I don't see cause to stand down.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
I get that Thief calls genesis as "having the earmarks of a science experiment"...
But that anybody would agree...?
What about genesis reads like an account of a science experiment? What science experiment sounds even remotly like the genesis account?
In what world, in what universe, in what weird laboratory would any science experiment look like the genesis account?
God's universe....God's world.
gnostic
The Lost One
Which doesn't really mean much in the real world.thief said:
The IQ tests doesn't show that you know much about history or any specific field in science. It also doesn't demonstrate that you are great artist or musician.
The tests are very limited.
And from my last several of exchanges with you or just reading your posts, you are certainly no scientist, nor are you a historian. You prove this serious lacking in knowledge when you replied to me with this inane claim:
thief said:
We are not made out of dust. That think so, just show how truly ignorant you are with biology.
sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
God's world operates within established scientific parameters. Genesis 2 ain't it.
outhouse
Atheistically
EXACTLY.
Does a higher IQ stop fanaticism and fundamentalism??? Not in the least.
All he is showing is a trolling perversion of literalism, and the ability to proselytize his unsubstantiated perversions
Thief
Rogue Theologian
Do trolls use history books when preaching to the choir?...of course they do.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
Yeah right!....and God is not allowed to tweak His creation?
Thief
Rogue Theologian
sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
There has never yet been one verifiable case of God having done that.
greentwiga
Active Member
Eccliastes says that we come from dust and to dust we will return. Many places in the Bible use return to dust as a euphemism for dying. The Hebrew word for dust is also translated earth, dirt, soil, and similar things made of small grains or particles. Yes, it is poetic, but reasonably accurate statement of what happens after our body decomposes.
It is also a good statement that our bodies, when formed in the womb, are made of the same things as what our body returns to. In fact, in Psalms, it says that we are but dust.
Thus, you are right, that we are made from elements. We don't decompose all the way back to elements. We return to soil. This doesn't deny that there are other components to our body other than soil (such as water) but just focuses on our bodies being frail, made of ordinary substances.
It is also a good statement that our bodies, when formed in the womb, are made of the same things as what our body returns to. In fact, in Psalms, it says that we are but dust.
Thus, you are right, that we are made from elements. We don't decompose all the way back to elements. We return to soil. This doesn't deny that there are other components to our body other than soil (such as water) but just focuses on our bodies being frail, made of ordinary substances.
