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So what is science's definition of life? Can a microbe be sort of alive?....a little bit alive? Can a microbe suddenly become "alive" and then spend the next few billion years turning into dinosaurs and other assorted animals?
Have you tried writing "life" and "definition" into a search engine?
Let's see... evolutionists believe that all organisms evolved naturally via mechanisms such as natural selection from a first cell. You believe that a god you can't explain why would exist in the first place spent billions of years personally designing and making millions and millions of different species of organisms. Gee, such a difficult choice picking what to believe...Can a microbe be sort of alive?....a little bit alive? Can a microbe suddenly become "alive" and then spend the next few billion years turning into dinosaurs and other assorted animals?
Who is telling the fairy tale? Ours is tame by comparison to yours.
LOL. When He walked and talked with Adam and Eve, there were no other humans to act as representatives, so ...
Limited chance ... evolution is not totally random.
But interacting with Koko or something is not the same thing as meeting God, though, right? (I mean, Koko, IIRC, said "God is me" or something like that, but still ...)
Of course it was written from the pov of people standing on the planet as it was people who wrote it.
Then give us a detailed account of why your god would exist in the first place, which organisms he designed and created, how he did it and when he created the different organisms. Just so that we know exactly what it is we are supposed to believe. You see, it would appear that you theists don't know what you are talking about since you can't even agree among yourselves what to believe and then you expect us to take you seriously...This is just a small sample of what evolution is trying to do......the suggestions are presented as facts and people trust that the scientists actually know what they are talking about.....
That's a joke right?
And exactly how and when did those creatures come about then? What are we supposed to believe?
Exactly, and that's why when people post their beliefs are as if they were objective facts, they actually undercut their own credibility.
But please note your assumptions above. One is that there is one creator-god, and the other is that somehow this creator-god has made it clear that there's only one true path and has supplied solid objective evidence for that. The reality is that we have literally no objective evidence for either scenario.
I know how cars are made. If I see a car and I can deduce that it was made in a factory. With people we can look at the evolutionary line. Simple as that.You think you know where the bus comes from because you read the badge...it is from a reputable company....right? What if the badge is phony, put on by a rival bus company who sold you a faulty piece of machinery that they knew would explode after 50,000 miles on the clock?
The signage is a red herring designed to make you feel confident about the vehicle, but the 50,000 miles is just about up....What will you do?
Death is th least foreign concept imaginable to life. And if we had evolved an acceptance of death rather than an aversion then we wouldn't survive. Life is really hard to survive and it takes a lot of drive to do it. Species without a strong will to survive and avoid death will not make it.I agree, your sister is not alive and neither is my father. They are "sleeping in death" according to the Bible, but they are assured of a resurrection...not to heaven, but back here to the earth where God put us in the first place. What a tragedy if they wake up and we are not there to welcome them back.....
All you need to do is provide the evidence.What is true is that God did NOT "create every single individual perfectly out of his own image for a grand plan and scheme so great and so loving that you can't even imagine it."
He created material creatures to inhabit a material earth in a material universe. He did not design them individually at all.....He created them with the ability to reproduce their kind, like everything else. He made humans in his own image, meaning that they were more intelligent than the animals and were appointed as their caretakers. He allows us to exercise our free will in everything. He has not created us to fail, but to acknowledge his existence and look for answers to life's most perplexing questions. Scripture tells us that when we search for him, (with the right attitude) he will allow us to find him.....if we don't, he will remain hidden until the judgment. He will not force a single person to do anything against their will. Those who have no need of him, will find that he has no need of them. They will get back from him, what they have given him....nothing.
Having been placed in a spacious garden with every fruit tree imaginable as their food supply, God intended that these humans should extend the boundaries of their garden home so that the whole earth would eventually become like the Garden of Eden. Hard, satisfying work is what they were designed for. This is what God meant when he said..."be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it". Only half of that mandate was carried out.....mankind has "filled the earth" but because of the disobedience of the first humans, this situation has not brought about the second part of the mandate.....to subdue the earth and bring about the paradise conditions that we all desire......its what we were all meant to have, and it was taken away from us by one act of disobedience. Sorting out this situation has taken many earth years, but the final part will come, when God has finished his object lesson, and in the process, testing humans out as to qualifications for citizenship in his kingdom. Paradise conditions will be restored to the earth and death and suffering will be no more. (Revelation 21:2-4) All will return to what God purposed in the beginning. (Isaiah 55:11)
You are right. It is unfair to put them on the same line. I should put it on the same line as Thor or Zenu. The reason they aren't on the same level is because god isn't testable. Nothing in nature provides evidence he exists. You say it came from god but you don't understand that there is no evidence for that. Our world and universe is subject to systems and processes. It isn't "random" or "accidental" in the sense that things just flew together like this. Its because of our complex and universal laws that it takes the course.
Taking the bible as any sort of scientific authority is bad. Geology or not.Who gets geology lessons from an ancient book? The Bible doesn't really touch on "geology" but it does allow for an old earth and also for the existence of ancient, now extinct creatures. JW's are not YEC supporters....we do however support Intelligent Design because we see design and programming in nature that need a purposer who created everything for a reason. His designs are worthy of imitation as scientists try to replicate the ingenious things they see in nature. It takes intelligence to copy something that had no designer? How does that work?
No one prior to him had this trait.I thought you said that no one in your family had this trait? I assumed that you meant his children as well. But lets examine this scenario for a moment. I included a link that described what 20/20 vision was. It is deemed to be adequate (being able to see objects clearly 20 feet away) and falls in the most common range for human beings. Many people, however, have better than 20/20 vision and probably always have. That doesn't alter the fact that, (according to the Vision Council of America,) approximately 75% of adults use some sort of vision correction. About 64% of them wear eyeglasses, and about 11% wear contact lenses, either exclusively, or with glasses. Over half of all women and about 42% of men wear glasses.
So if what you say is correct, then we should be seeing an improvement in the genetics of vision as time goes on.....but instead we see a decline....the majority of humans need vision correction. Is evolution going backwards?
It still doesn't say anything about the planet (rotating).
Where, exactly, does it do that?
"Faith is the excuse people give for believing something when they don't have evidence."I don't think that there is such thing as 'objective' evidence for anything spiritual metis. Belief is based on faith.....which the Bible says is "not the possession of all men". We decide what we will believe.
There is only the Bible's account of why we are here, what happened to derail God's first purpose, and identifying the mastermind behind the hijacking of the human race. Its understanding who and what Babylon the great is and what God is going to do about her.
We are living in a unique time in history when the "last days" are being played out just as the Bible said it would. The conditions that we see in the world at present....the humanitarian crisis taking place in so many nations, testify to the fact that if God does not intervene soon, then there will be no world left to save.
What does "spiritual" even mean?You can believe that if you like.
Can science explain spirituality as easily as it explains life just spontaneously popping into existence?
Oh, I forgot...it can't do that either.