Pinball1970
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No, you need to read someone like Bart Ehrman
What the Bible is Really About
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Pinball1970
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There are no "kinds" in biology.
Revelation In Space
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[Shudders] No.
Pinball1970
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The scientific community disagree with you. There is a thread dedicated to this. "Intelligent design redux."
Pinball1970
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Why not?
Pinball1970
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Which Journal?
Pinball1970
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There is very little history in the OT. Certainly no creation Adam and Eve, global flood, Exodus.
Or as Francesca Stavrakopoulou put it when asked “Is there anything factual in the Bible? Anything?”
FS: “Very little.”
Revelation In Space
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I've read some of it. Generally speaking, I don't find the subject relevant or interesting. I'm certainly not conversant. I would be interested in having a discussion in which you and I shared our respective knowledge on the subject of theology and science but not a debate, even informal. More a discussion where I teach you what I think about the Bible and you teach me what you personally think about evolution. The argument for argument's sake is pointless in my opinion. I rejected evolution when I was taught it in middle school, as being more ridiculous than the Bible long before I became a believer. The non-militant atheists I know feel the same way as I once did.
Revelation In Space
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You choose.
Revelation In Space
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You have read Genesis?
And you think I should believe her over Jehovah? Honestly, I don't pay much attention to people like that. Generally speaking, unless I were speaking directly to them as I am you.
Kings and lawyers can't write bullshit when it suits them? That tentmaker was a seriously major bullshit artists - but effective. If a god created humans in his own image, that must have been one gullible deity!
Revelation In Space
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I've heard of him, but I don't pay much attention to those sorts of things. He is enough of a traditionalist, questionable scholar - nothing surprising about that - if I asked him if the soul were immortal, he would give me Socrates and I would give him Ezekiel 18:4 and Matthew 10:28.
Revelation In Space
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Ideologue. You never back anything up and you are going to refer to Jehovah and Paul as gullible? You prey on gullible.
Revelation In Space
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In a basic sense, species is a sort, kind, variety. Biological terminology applies it to any group of interfertile animals or plants mutually possessing one or more distinctive characteristics, so there could be many such species or varieties within a single division of the Biblical kind. For example, Noah's ark didn't need every breed of dog to preserve the canine species. See Science and the Bible: Noah's Ark (mobile).
The basic meaning of “species” is “a sort; kind; variety.” In biological terminology, however, it applies to any group of interfertile animals or plants mutually possessing one or more distinctive characteristics. Thus, there could be many such species or varieties within a single division of the Genesis “kinds.”
That's anti-ideologue. I have often referred to Jehovah as a mean, capricious, egotistical SOB - as depicted in the OT. I have often referred to Paul as a charlatan. The latter used the former to bamboozle a bunch of gullible people and make himself a little personality cult that, under Roman rule, grew into a huge and predatory death-cult. Yes, the few who wield the God-whip do prey on the gullible masses. I wonder which personality type was made in whose image?
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Revelation In Space
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That isn't uncommon. Interesting, isn't it? Think of all that was at stake when you should have been informed and all that motivates you now.
Revelation In Space
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It's anecdotal, based upon my own personal experience. A generalization of the fundamentalist, militant atheist ideologue. It wasn't referencing you specifically, who I don't know personally.
That's fine. I wouldn't consider you fundamentalist, militant atheist ideologue. At least not the smug, unreasonable, arrogant variety I'm accustomed to like a few here. But hey, to each his own, I'm cool with that.
Revelation In Space
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I'm just having fun with you. Reciprocal, as it were.
Look what science does to you. On a post about what the Bible is really about look how much of this thread has been overtaken by science, much of it vague, insubstantial and certainly irrelevant. Y'all should be out there doing science but instead you're obsessed ideologues in the name of science.
I wouldn't advise anyone to be any part of organized religion - even if it's disguised poorly as science. What you do to science is what they did to religion in the dark ages. Pretty stupid, really, and certainly not very original.
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foghorn
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Yes, and the man in the car is laughing right back at you.
I don’t see why you can’t change your name on this site if you haven’t been banned, but why should your old posts under your old member name ‘DLH’ not show up in your posting list?
Revelation In Space
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Yes . . . I got that. Reciprocal was the term I believe I used.
They do.