15 Mar 19
@ponderable saidOnly a conscious mind can explain any change of an eternal state. The days of feigning ignorance for atheists is over. Time to choose to be a decent human being or suffer the consequences. Praise Jesus.
We do have some facts:
* If somebody claims causeless cause it is regardless if they speak about a singularity (the farthest to go back in the big bang hypothesis) or the creator. The question what causes either is not possible to answer in the relevant framework.
* Any religion which claims that creation was caused by a god is in fact giving a hypothesis as in the f ...[text shortened]... ion where matter and energy came from without resorting to some beginning beyond which we can't ask.
15 Mar 19
@sonship saidThankfully we don't have to observe evolution 'as it is happening' to evidence its occurrence.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
Unfortunately sir your line of descendants is broken at the very beginning, when we take into account that Adam, as an actual individual, never existed. (Evidenced of course by the fact that we evolved as a species and were never created in our current human form).
That is your religious faith speaking.
That is not your scientificall ...[text shortened]... rong.
Its just not rigorous.
I think certainly there was a first man and woman - Adam and Eve.
Phew,
15 Mar 19
@ghost-of-a-duke saidAnd what have we observed about evolution?
Thankfully we don't have to observe evolution 'as it is happening' to evidence its occurrence.
Phew,
It is punctuated and not gradual as Darwin once assumed.
Why do you think that is?
@ponderable saidNicely written sir.
We do have some facts:
* If somebody claims causeless cause it is regardless if they speak about a singularity (the farthest to go back in the big bang hypothesis) or the creator. The question what causes either is not possible to answer in the relevant framework.
* Any religion which claims that creation was caused by a god is in fact giving a hypothesis as in the f ...[text shortened]... ion where matter and energy came from without resorting to some beginning beyond which we can't ask.
@darfius saidThat sounds like something a bad person would say.
Only a conscious mind can explain any change of an eternal state. The days of feigning ignorance for atheists is over. Time to choose to be a decent human being or suffer the consequences. Praise Jesus.
As an atheist though, I forgive you.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidSo why is evolution punctuated?
I don't deify Darwin.
Why have a Cambrian Explosion, for example?
In fact, why a "Big Bang"?
@suzianne saidIt was a thought that inevitably popped into my head. I was always going to have it.
Who told you that? Just wondering.
@darfius saidBecause it appears to be human nature to sin.....hasn't that been the whole problem?
Of course, but why would they?
Will/do people sin in heaven?
15 Mar 19
@stellspalfie saidAt the end of the age, those who belong to Christ will become as He is, given bodies like His which are not fallen (with fallen inclinations, tendencies and inheritances). So they will be returned to the state Adam and Eve were in before they fell. It will still be possible for them to sin, but with the knowledge of what sin has brought about before and with no corresponding physical temptation anymore, again I ask, why would they?
Because it appears to be human nature to sin.....hasn't that been the whole problem?
Will/do people sin in heaven?
15 Mar 19
@ghost-of-a-duke saidMore, it is a great strength of science that it corrects parts of a theory which are wrong, regardless of how well-esteemed the proponent of those ideas was.
I don't deify Darwin.