Quote In 1 Corinthians, chapter 8, Paul tells us that indeed there are “gods, idols, and lords” in the world, but they are really nothing at all. –NotTrue. So if you saw someone who worshipped trees because they didn't die during winter or light because they worship the sun god, or if some ancient Greeks takes round honey cakes and for some…[Read more]

I wonder if Satan ever makes bad things look and feel good? An angel of light. Isn't that what he is called? I wonder if he ever makes violence and immorality appear good? I wonder if he ever takes vile satanic things and wraps a ribbon on them and makes them appear innocent fun?Is not the “whole world lying in the power of the wicked…[Read more]

Hey guys. I've been gone for a while. I presume they haven't discovered any missing links while I've been away?I was extremely busy when I was looking at this thread the first time. So I didn't really get a chance to give it much time. Not3, you state:Quote Look, this is my *sometimes* humble opinion…..you can find…[Read more]

Not 3, if you could possibly answer or even consider these questions:Questions:1. Why do you think the early Christians refused to celebrate birthdays (including Jesus birthday)? There is no record of Christians celebrating Jesus birth for hundreds of years. Why did they refuse to do so? (I can provide a string of quotes saying they didn't, if…[Read more]

Quote I am enjoying your posts in the Science section. . . .Listen, just because there isn't a “record” of Jesus getting thrown a birthday party from Mary and Jo doesn't mean it didn't happen? –Not3Hey Not3. Yes, I'm enjoying posting and discussing a very different topic.Not3, you misunderstand. It's not that there is no record. It's that…[Read more]

Quote ++”Please at least attempt to answer the “why”I don't know why. Neither do you. What does “why” mean? It is a word used when a human smells a conspiracy.When investigators are trying to figure out what happened, they do look at “how” it appeared to happen. They also ask “why” something happened. The motive (the “why”) seems to be a…[Read more]

Quote For example, how about a real theory of exactly how matter, or replicating molecules were made by your creator? As I've said several times now, the Bible isn't a science textbook. God's math is a little above me. The laws and forces he created that defined the universe were extraordinarily precise. While the Bible does connect God's…[Read more]

Quote 3. There is evidence that the universe as we know it now started in some kind of explosive separation of antimatter and matter. This model has made predictions which have later been demonstrated true. There are still many questions to be answered.–stu.Please at least attempt to answer the “why”:Quote # Inanimate law, energy, stuff, or…[Read more]

Quote I know that quite a few believer's on this site would condemn me for celebrating , but I have found peace with God about this. I think that there are times when you can become way too legalistic about life. –Not3in1My question to you Not3 is simply this: Were the earliest Christians “way too legalistic” on this?“The early Christians d…[Read more]

Questions:1. Why do you think the early Christians refused to celebrate birthdays (including Jesus birthday)? There is no record of Christians celebrating Jesus birth for hundreds of years. Why did they refuse to do so? (I can provide a string of quotes saying they didn't, if you like, showing that the early Christians regarded them as a…[Read more]

Quote Sure you can explain how, but when you step back and say that all this came from nothing, it is just outrageously rediculous.I put this to you for consideration:As far fetched as it may seem to someone who has no relationship with God that God actually exists, from a logical point of view it is far more likely that there is a God who is the…[Read more]

Quote A particle of matter and it's antiparticle counterpart will, if they collide, annihalate one another with a release of energyQuote We are dealing here with the quantum world, where sub-atomic particles which are also waves disappear and reappear again, and an electron from an atom in your shirt has a tiny possibility of being some distance…[Read more]

Quote ++”Maybe 95 percent of scientists believe in evolution, but 95% of scientists are not paeleontologists. They put far too much faith in their imperfect collegues.The first website I found after trying to figure out who believes what is this one:http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_publi.htmIt gives all kinds of different statistics on t…[Read more]

Maybe 95 percent of scientists believe in evolution, but 95% of scientists are not paeleontologists. They put far too much faith in their imperfect collegues.David Pilbeam, a Harvard University paleoanthropologist, says:“If you brought in a smart scientist from another discipline and showed him the meagre evidence we've got he'd surely say, “…[Read more]

Quote Tell me about archeopterix.The eleven fossils currently classified as Archaeopteryx are the oldest evidence of feathers on the planet and the only ones dated from Jurassic times. Furthermore, their advanced nature and placement suggest their origins must have been even earlier.–wICKipediA.The oldest wings we have and “their advanced nature…[Read more]

Quote I would like to see where your Darwin quote comes from, to put it in context (knowing how often these things are abused by creationsists). –StueThe Origin of Species, in the chapter entitled “Difficulties on Theory””…Why, if species have descended from other species by fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional f…[Read more]

“Why, if species have descended from other species by fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion, instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?”–Charles DarwinDarwin answered by saying that the transitional forms had all been exterminated already. Stu, I believe wou…[Read more]

Quote ++”Where are the actual transitions between the few “transitions” that we have now, that you speak of. The following uses horses as one example:Quote http://www.asa3.org/asa/resources/Miller.html explains a bit more about the limits and scope of the fossil recordAs The World Book Encyclopedia states: “Horses are among the best-…[Read more]

Quote What actually happens is mostly gradual, and there is no one point when you can definitely say that one species became another.–StuYou also repeatedly say that we are the transitions.Yes, Stu, you CAN SAY that all fossils are transitional. But it seems like we only have one thousandth of a percent of the “transitions” then. What we mea…[Read more]

THE FACT OF EVOLUTION IS SUPPORTED BY A RATHER WELL FORMED SEQUENCE OF INTERMEDIATE STAGES IN THE FOSSIL RECORDThis comment by the famous Harvard evolutionist Steven J. Gould when he testified before Judge Overton in the Arkansas Creation-Evolution trial suggests that the countless intermediate stages in the evolution of one organism into another,…[Read more]