With one finger, DayStar Wrote:Those with more knowledge on the subject, you mean.
No, those with a deep seated desire to believe in spite of knowledge to the contrary. For example, you may well be the worlds foremost expert on bible studies (Someone has to be I suppose) but, that doesn't mean that the bible is true does it?
If it were than all human kinds unbiased observation of the Universe would back it up. But they don't. Why? Because it's not true. Sometimes the simplest explanation is the correct one and in this case it seems blatantly obvious.
I think that the problem is that you have spent so much time dedicated to the study of this book and you have such a deep and personal relationship with its text that, to you, the concept that it may all be just an interesting work of fiction, philosophy and handed down history is utterly repellent.
Your views on evolution and Charles Darwin are pretty typical to this argument. I'm not going to argue with you on this point as this would be like putting wheels on a dog.. Time consuming and utterly pointless.
However, you are a bit unusual and certainly a departure from your normal Christian (ok, you're not a Christian) in that you seem to have an adequate intelligence and argue your case with consistent determination, all be it, without any sense of verisimilitude.
And I must admit that I normally bypass your posts in much the same way that my daughter bypasses my hints that she should tidy her room.
But, it occurs to me that there may be some nuggets of gold buried in the murky waters. To this end therefore, I should like to clear up a few points that I assume you would answer predictably but may surprise me.
First one. Precisely, what is it about evolution that you dislike? Is it simply that it contradicts the bible and do you believe that evolution is possible at all? For example, when a bacterium 'evolves' to become antibiotic resistant, is that evolution or has God directly intervened to create a new species, and if so, why?
Secondly, how old do you think the Universe is? Is the planet Earth and Human Kind the purpose or at least focus of creation and if so, why did God create 10^21 stars across 100,000,000,000 galaxies?
Thirdly, and this will do for now, do you actually think that all humans can trace their ancestry back to Adam and Eve and that Eve was created from a rib of Adam and the whole business with the serpent?
Oh, and I'm glad you're making a full recovery

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