(November 7, 2013 at 11:30 pm)Owlix Wrote: I agree, FallentoReason, except that we know animals existed for millions upon hundred millions of years, not any shorter amount of time. Humans didn't walk with dinosaurs, and it was around 65 million years ago that the last 'saur' walked the earth. Tiny rodent like mammals survived the great extinction (a meteor, would you believe? A meteor that caused chaos the world over, nuclear winter, volcanoes, earthquakes, 'hell on earth'. It was not just the meteor that extincted the dinosaurs, it was the domino or butterfly effect of said meteor) only because they burrowed and as such escaped the harmful effects happening topside. There is a basic understanding of how things evolved from single celled organisms, not 'poof! and you shall be man! Crack, and you are woman'. Ice ages and global warming, plate tectonics.....
I agree with all of this. That is the flip-side, the double-edged sword for the theist, when it comes to trying to tame science in a religious way; they should be able to convince the atheist that no material evidence will ever be found for God's existence, but at the same time their god's Creation tells a story that is incompatible with what their god says about his own creation.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
