Comments on: Back to the Trenches!

By: Ed J

Ed J — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:38:07 +0000

Well said, Bobby.

ID simply says that we can use science to show that design is present with some rigor. Behe’s Edge of Evolution is devastating for the conventional view of an evolution without intervention by God. To me as a Christian, it’s just silly to think that the God who intervened in the life of Abraham, parted the Red Sea, and sent His son to die on a cross and to be physically resurrected was for some reason too scrupulous to leave any fingerprints when He created the universe and formed life on earth. Why? To make it easier to doubt Him? We don’t need any extra help with that.

By: Headless Unicorn Guy

Headless Unicorn Guy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:44:04 +0000

I find it interesting that Intelligent Design is not even considered amongst folks…

That’s because ID got hijacked by YEC as its latest coat of camouflage paint.

When somebody says “Intelligent Design”, you have to ask:

Intelligent Design as in “thinking God’s thoughts after Him”, as in “Natural Theology”, a tradition of philosophical foundation of Western science?

Or Intelligent Design (nudge nudge wink wink know what I mean know what I mean), a coat of camouflage paint for Young Earth Creationism Uber Alles?

By: nedbrek

nedbrek — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:52:36 +0000

As I understand it, phylogenetic trees are built using morphology or genetics. What else is there? Observing animals bringing forth after their kind?

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Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:48:36 +0000

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By: nedbrek

nedbrek — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:08:22 +0000

If they are teaching YEC is required for salvation, then call them on it. If they are not repentant, form a group of refugees (inside the church, if they’ll allow it – else outside).

You have to meet with other people. Lone Christians get weird (see Harold Camping).

By: Lukas db

Lukas db — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:26:39 +0000

Of course, the fact that Adam and Eve wouldn’t have been able to eat or breath is hardly a concern for some YEC’s. I have heard plenty of imaginative theories about what everything ate before the fall, and what would happen if, say, Adam were to step on an insect or ingest a bacterium….

By: Lukas db

Lukas db — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:22:55 +0000

Except our ‘Rome’ is a hive mind.

By: Lukas db

Lukas db — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:09:37 +0000

In Deism, God is a stranger, a distant monarch. In Panentheism, God is my mom. In Theism, God is….whatever he has willed to be. And he has chosen to be my father, friend, king and savior.

For me, the choice seems clear. God doesn’t seem like God in any system but theism. But that’s just me; I can understand why some people are deists. It is perhaps a bit of a more reasonable thing to be.

By: Lukas db

Lukas db — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:01:38 +0000

God is Islam’s Eternal Trump Card.

By: Lukas db

Lukas db — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:58:06 +0000

This is a good analogy. Simple. relevant and straightforward. It cuts to the heart of the matter; God controls and creates, but at the same time natural processes are effective agents.