(September 13, 2010 at 2:38 pm)theophilus Wrote: In order to show that this is evolution it would be necessary to prove that there was a time in the past when no skinks had the ability to produce live births.That's not how evolution actually works.
The fact of the matter is that this particular species of skinks were laying eggs before but in recent generations have started giving live births or at least is becoming more frequent.
(September 13, 2010 at 2:38 pm)theophilus Wrote: God got the creation right but it has been severely damaged as a result of sin. The time is coming when this world will be destroyed to be replace by a better one, but perhaps God has to do a little tweaking to keep this one functioning until then.You're absolutely right. Soon, this world will one be replaced by a better one. A world of reason and fact and not of blind faith.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
