Man created in god's image

[Doubting_Thomas]

Drich, you have stated that god, the creator of the universe, does not have nipples or belly button. On what authoritative source are you basing this assertion?

[Godscreated]

Drich, you have stated that god, the creator of the universe, does not have nipples or belly button. On what authoritative source are you basing this assertion?

Scripture tells us that God is spirit and does not have a physical body.

[Undeceived]

Why did God give men nipples? Why the appendix? The spleen? Wisdom teeth?

The appendix is a safehouse for good bacteria--helps fight off diseases. The spleen helps filter out old blood cells as well as keeping reserves of blood cells and monocytes. Jaw sizes have decreased over generations, but wisdom teeth were indeed helpful to earlier humans (we only need to go back a couple hundred years for this to be the case). The coccyx has a host of functions (http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/tailbone.html ). Above all, it is a bone used for support. Nothing about the coccyx screams ‘tail’ except its location and shape. Bottom line, a bone needs to sit in the cavity beneath our vertebrae and the coccyx fits the bill.

Male nipples are an example of design economy. A female’s breast tissue is just as useless as male’s until puberty, meaning the embryonic stage is not the diverging point. This is crucial because it requires random evolutionary processes to develop the nipple before milk came along. Moreover, human evolutionary history claims male and female divergence occurred first in reptiles. Nipples would then require an additional divergence in humans, eliminating males from breastfeeding for no seemingly reason at all. In short, the topic of nipples poses a bigger problem for evolution than it does for an omniscient creator.

The question that should be asked is why we don’t find any vestigial DNA—remnants of codes for tissues/organs we do not exhibit on our bodies. The fact we have not suggests humans have always had what current phenotypes show and nothing else. New uses are constantly being discovered. For a long time, 98% of the human genome was pronounced “junk” by over-anxious scientists. Recently, 80% has been discovered to have a use (http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/09/jun...64001.html ) and scientists have no reason to believe the rest does not. The 80% includes over 4 million ‘gene switches.’ Scientists now know that any functioning mutation needs not only the initial mutation but a mutation for the gene switch to turn that new function on. A self-professed rule of science: restrict judgment until the all information comes in. For some reason, evolutionists talking about vestigial organs have ignored it.

[Drich]

Drich, you have stated that god, the creator of the universe, does not have nipples or belly button. On what authoritative source are you basing this assertion?

Please show me where I have stated this.

In my orginal post I made no such statement. I simply said we are not carbon copies or clones of God.

In my second post I said Jesus Was God incarinate. Meaning He would have Nipples and a belly button.

So again show me were I said God did not have these things. ;D

[Darkstar]

Scripture tells us that God is spirit and does not have a physical body.

So god couldn't have created us in his physical image, but instead in his likeness as in similar actions. Which...would explain a lot...(not that there aren't better explanations out there)

[catfish]

For those who are curious about my profile pic, it is a representation of the name of God as reavealed in the OT

As it 1st appears in the OnlineInterlinear version: Exodus 3:13
http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInter...ex o3.pdf

אֶהְיֶה = I AM THAT I AM (OR) I SHALL BECOME WHO I AM BECOMING

And as is usually found for the name of God.
יהוה = YHWH = God, the Lord, Jehovah, Yahweh

Hebrew-English traslation
http://translation.babylon.com/hebrew/to-english/

YHWH spelled vertically instead of right-left

י Yod (yode)
ה He (hey)
ו Vav (vahv)
ה He (hey)

[The Grand Nudger]

"I like pretty shapes and am convinced that they have some unseen and unspoken meaning"

[Minimalist]

For those who are curious about my profile pic

What about the rest of us who don't give a flying fuck about you or your god, fishy?

[IATIA]

Well, here we go again, gotta help out the idiot theists.

"Man was created in the image of god", refers to the soul. The body is just a shell to carry us through this material world until such time we we shed this mortal body and ascend to heaven.



You're welcome.

[catfish]

"you're" *

You're welcome...

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For those who are curious about my profile pic

What about the rest of us who don't give a flying fuck about you or your god, fishy?

You obviously cared enough to respond, so what exactly are you saying???