Thank God for Evolution

response to veritas48: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOFCu4NaXkU

http://www.wie.org/bios/michael-dowd.asp

http://www.thankgodforevolution.com

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• atheism
• theism
• God
• eternity
• meaning
• bible
• happiness
• peace

[ogirv101]

Fundamentalist Christians are heretics, the orthodox church and early church fathers took Genesis alleorgically rather than literally. Go back to Jesus' time and take genesis literally and you'll get aughed at by even the most prominent theologians of ancient times. Look at St. Augustine for example.

Next, Evolutionary theory in fact helped religion, after the theory was published Religion actually grew more powerful, ironic huh? Darwin was also a Deist/Agnostic, and rejected Atheism.

[tubeheadz1]

If you agree with the first statement, then you do accept evolution.

Good is a subjective term. One may see sickness and dying in the world and say that's bad, but someone else can see it and see it as opportunity for reflection and forgiveness. God only has the opinion society gives him.

Something becomes sin when it damages societal tradition. That's how Christianity evolved. In the OT, it was a sin to trim the edges of your beard because it would damage the uniformity of the Jews.

[TheYoungTurds1]

very good video!

[periot123]

evolutin theory and genesis are all myth. theory of evolution is the way of man how to discover the creation of God and Genesis the responce of the sacred writer when God inpires him to tell people that He is existing its obvious that man`s intelligent cannot reach God`s intellectual no one can reach God`s intellectual but all wisdom intellegent and discovery of man cause by the effect of the primary cause which is God itself. were not creator were only the one who discover Gods creation

[MrMohjong]

@0ThouArtThat0 I think it can be deeper then that, I'm not sure it was talking about physical death but a spiritual death in which we need to come back to god to heal and make stronger, and as fare as days go it can't be days as we know it I believe the bible says Adam lived for a 1000 years and God told him he would day that day so.

[drewsiferdrew]

Another thing I was thinking is, if a infantecimal speck of matter of infinite density exploded with infinate force to create our universe, and then RNA came from that, well how the heck do we account for all the variety of rocks and gems in the earth? I was working in a mining company's head office and saw gems of brown, pink, blue, purple, green, coppers, golds, and diamonds etc. just puzzled as to why they're so bright and various!

[drewsiferdrew]

Keep studying! Just don't be afraid to ask any question to your profs or to yourself especially.

[Zdrazy]

It's my understanding that the gametes are produced from the somatic cells, so the mutation doesn't have to happen during meiosis because the mutation will exist within the body cells. I believe that's one of the ways in which ERVs are passed along.

New information can enter the genome by non-disjunction, polyploidy, or gene duplication. The superfluous genes can then be worked on by mutation and natural selection to produce more useful mutations.

[drewsiferdrew]

Linguistics? Check again on that one. Linguistics may be a quasi-science but the evolutionary model falls short of anything but genetic variation: i.e., it falls short of explaining our languages.

Don't take my word for it though (as I am 100% positive you wont even give it a second thought)

[drewsiferdrew]

Do you know that for generations to have variation, those mutations must happen in mitosis or meiosis (sex sells) only? So a mutation is completely blind and happens in your nuts.

With no direction, mutations would be predominately debilitating or just silly. Across the world in all the millions of kinds of animals numbering in the trillions I see nothing with a paper shredder on its forehead--never once.

Where does information come from? Evolution is not the right answer. Not for this world

[ogirv101]

@jedimasterbooboo:

So you're telling me that the new interpretation of a literal Genesis is true because the new guys tell you so and because they want you to do so, even though a literal Genesis goes against all common sense and rationality? If you haven't see lately, Science has crippled Young Earth Creationism, and to consider the church fathers like Augustine of hippo as people not preserving scripture compared to modern evangelicals is outrageous.

[jedimasterbooboo]

I'm aware of what you just told me. That makes no difference to me. "Church fathers" had no interest in preserving any integrity in scripture, and the jews likewise had oral law, which was garbage and lots of mythology. NO, I asked you a specific question about which scriptures point to Jesus taking OT allegorically. He referred to it literally. This conversation is about Jesus, not about how much people deviate from what's clear. That's basic humanity- no surprises.