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GOD SAID, in Genesis, chapter 1, verses 26-27:
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female and created he them.
MAN SAID that God didn't just speak us into existence, but that we evolved into our present state through a combination of happenings over billions of years.Now the RECORD:
It used to be said that man used about 10% of his brain capacity. But just recently, science revealed we use only a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of our brain and that the human brain has infinite capabilities. It would almost sound braggadocious if it were not for the fact that we are designed in God's image and have between our ears, God's brain power — God's computer power. Consider this information about your brain:
There are at least 10 billion, perhaps as many as 100 billion, neurons (nerve cells) in your brain, each of which is connected to between 5,000 and 50,000 other neurons. Add it all up and you get at least 1014 or 100 trillion nerve cell connections in your head.
Michael Denton in his book titled, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis reports the following:
Altogether the total number of connections in the human brain approaches 1015 or a thousand million million. Numbers in the order of 1015 are of course completely beyond comprehension. Imagine an area about half the size of the USA (one million square miles) covered in a forest of trees containing ten thousand trees per square mile. If each tree contained one hundred thousand leaves the total number of leaves in the forest would be 1015, equivalent to the number of connections in the human brain.
Information theorist John Neumann once estimated that the memories stored in the human brain during an average lifetime would amount to approximately 2.8 X 1020 (or 28 with 19 zeroes after it) information bits.
The brain is a literal pharmaceutical manufacturing plant and administering medical team all in one. It creates from the materials at hand a magnificent array of drugs and medications and automatically administers them when needed. “Imagine, your brain weighs only three pounds. Yet a computer with the same number of “bits” would be 100 stories tall and cover the state of Texas.
Do you need more proof that your brain is made in God's likeness? Then consider this…to build a building 100 stories tall that would cover the state of Texas and then fill it with information bits would cost more than the aggregate wealth of the world. Your (God-like) brain has infinite capabilities and is beyond price.
So much for evolutionary gibberish that says we evolved because of need. We are all equipped with brain capabilities so vast and so far past our needs it is unfathomable.
GOD SAID he created us in His likeness and His image.
MAN SAID we evolved by accident and need.
THE RECORD says it was God's creation nearly 6000 years ago.
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King James Bible
Denton M., Evolution: A Theory in Crisis.Hi H,
You say
“It used to be said that man used about 10% of his brain capacity. But just recently, science revealed we use only a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of our brain and that the human brain has infinite capabilities. It would almost sound braggadocious if it were not for the fact that we are designed in God's image and have between our ears, God's brain power — God's computer power”Why would this weak human tent deserve glory?
What of the mind of Christ?
Hi Nick.
Isn't he giving glory to one of God's creations? The human brain truly is a marvelous thing, incomparable with any other physical creation. It truly shows God's power and wisdom and love.Evolution theory seems to teach that evolution gives a creature exactly what it NEEDS to survive. Yet, the human brain, has what seem to be infinite capabilities. Yet, man dies.
Why would evolution have given man such a brain?
We know why God would have given man such a brain–because he was designed to live forever.Excellent posts brothers.
As for the weak human tent deserving glory, it is God that deserves the glory. We are images of his glory.
Hi,
The glory goes to the creator not the creation.
There are reports of som,e people with only half a brain or severely damaged brains that still function apparently normally. Since some of functions are shown to remain after death as shown in Lk 16, why should we assume these attributes are physical and not soul ones?Hi H,
In Lk 16 we see the rich man DEAD and in Hades.
What abilities that we would normally expect to only relate to physical life on earth do we see that he has retained?As for what abilities the soul has after it leaves the body, suffering is once. I believe also the ability to speak. I believe he had a mouth for which to speak from. For confession is made with the mouth. And if they, who were of the rightious dead, being made rightious by the heart, did not confess with the mouth that Jesus is the Son of God, they would not have been saved from death when Christ decended into the lower parts to defeat death and set the captives free.
Quote (david @ July 18 2006,17:41) Hi Nick.
Isn't he giving glory to one of God's creations? The human brain truly is a marvelous thing, incomparable with any other physical creation. It truly shows God's power and wisdom and love.Evolution theory seems to teach that evolution gives a creature exactly what it NEEDS to survive. Yet, the human brain, has what seem to be infinite capabilities. Yet, man dies.
Why would evolution have given man such a brain?
We know why God would have given man such a brain–because he was designed to live forever.
I don't think that one should glorify the brain but marvel at God's worksmanship.From heiscominginthecloud, over a year ago:
++”So much for evolutionary gibberish that says we evolved because of need. We are all equipped with brain capabilities so vast and so far past our needs it is unfathomable.
Having uneccessary features is an argument for evolution and against design by a competent creator.
It IS gibberish to say that evolution happens because of “need”. Evolution does not have a goal. Perhaps our brains have the “uneeded” capabilities as a byproduct of the things that were advantageous. Belief in gods is probably an uneeded byproduct of our credulity and pattern-seeking traits.
++”GOD SAID he created us in His likeness and His image.
Did Adam have a navel?
++” MAN SAID we evolved by accident and need.
Only creationists will say that scientists say this. Evolution is not accidental, and doesn’t have a goal.
++”THE RECORD says it was God's creation nearly 6000 years ago.
Most other records agree that the Earth is over 4.5 billion years old.
Stuart
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