RE: Best description of Christianity
February 13, 2015 at 1:58 pm
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2015 at 2:06 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(February 13, 2015 at 1:49 pm)robvalue Wrote: Why are you talking about Noah?
Are you being serious?
It was an example...
(February 13, 2015 at 1:56 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(February 13, 2015 at 1:47 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: so what ever two "canines" he took aboard the Ark are the ancestors of all the canines we have today, the animals that he didn't take went extinct.
I believe animals can evolve within their group, I don't believe however, that all creatures evolved from the same ancestor.
Except that we know, just off the top of my head here, that whales evolved from early land-dwelling ungulate animals; the morphological and genetic data confirm this. So, are whales just a part of the cow "group," of animals now? Are the definitions of what goes into which group of animals going to change each time science discovers something new, or are you going to present a clear and unambiguous list of what determines these groups before we continue the discussion, so we can be sure you aren't just making this up as you go along?
For that matter, why was god using human-defined family classifications when he was populating the Ark? Did Noah know about this, even though the classifications wouldn't be defined for many years afterward?
Since the classifications we use are Latin I seriously doubt Noah used the same system. How the animals were classified is not clear, what IS clear is that only two animals from each classification were taken.
(February 13, 2015 at 1:53 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote:(February 13, 2015 at 1:47 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: I believe animals can evolve within their group, I don't believe however, that all creatures evolved from the same ancestor.
Then why would humans share 25% of their genes with rice?
Possibly because they have the same creator?
