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It would a lot more difficult than you think.World’s tallest dog confirmed as Zeus the Great Dane
A Great Dane named Zeus has been confirmed at the tallest dog living (male), towering over other breeds at 1.046 metres.www.guinnessworldrecords.com
Looks pretty big to me, and given sufficient time and resources I bet a bigger dog could be genetically engineered too.
The only difference between genetic engineering and natural selection that I'm aware of is that in genetic engineering you have a person doing the selecting whilst in natural selection you have an environment doing the selecting.
In doing the genetic engineering, you would show that random mutations could not do it.
Ah, but see, in natural selection it is god doing the selecting.
It's still undetermined whether somebody closely resembling the man depicted in the Gospels ever existed. When a life is well documented, there is no reasonable doubt that such a life was lived by an actual person. We don't doubt that Muhammad lived, nor George Washington, nor Napoleon, and a century from now, there will be no doubt that Joe Biden was a real figure from history who did the things reported in the news and summarized in subsequent biographies.
Why should that matter to the critical thinker? Your man had no forensic evidence. What convinces such a person is irrelevant to the critical thinker unless that same evidence convinces him as well. If he understands it differently, then he rejects this other person's conclusions. To believe this detective's claims is a kind of reverse ad hominem fallacy (or argument from authority) - "He must be right because he's a detective, s I can skip reviewing his evidence and argument and just believe him."
Stalin and Hitler were raised as Christians.
What you call evolutionists are people that accept science. Racism tends to cluster among the low-information demographic that rejects science, like MAGA.
The god of Abraham condoned chattel slavery, where people were considered property that could be bought and sold, their spouses and children sold, their labor stolen, and who could be beaten. That's the god you worship, isn't it - the one in the Bible?
What god? I don't see any gods. That's why.
Agreed. That evidence refutes the claim that that god exists. If some transhuman intelligent designer deceptively arranged that evidence to appear that evolution had occurred when in fact it hadn't, that still can't be the god of Abraham, unless, as others have suggested, you want to call that god a liar. It allegedly claimed to create the universe and man within a week. It didn't, therefore, either it doesn't exist or it has lied to man and taken credit for things it didn't do.
Just people willing to believe that such a thing happens, and it's not Satan deceiving them strictly speaking. It's their Bibles and those preaching from them.
You can't. Your "refutations" are essentially empty claims accompanied by lists of irrelevant questions.
How do you know this? Because the Bible tells you so?
That myth has been falsified. There was no first pair of human beings created de novo. All human beings have nonhuman ancestors.
Why don't you know what the first living things were made of? The scientific community does, and textbooks have been created that summarize that for you.
My post contained no science at all. I'm not surprised that you took nothing home from it except for incorrectly calling it science. That was predicted. Do you recall my comment that I don't believe that anything I could write would benefit you?
He doesn't need your approval.
The unsaved do not know the word of God or the gospel of Christ. That is what the word of God says.
So then, by your own words, you can not be saved.
What you think he needs is entirely irrelevant.
I can't argue with that since I have concluded from my studies that God is not a compendium of three persons equal to each other forming one godhead or something like that. With one caveat. Not all claiming to be Christian believe that God is a triune godhead.
If salvation were the issue, would you say you're saved?
No you would not, because genetic engineering requires the same random mutations in my view.
None of those modifications have been shown to be difficult in making larger dog breeds so far in my view.
Actually it doesn't as those valves could have evolved as I see it.
The Trinity is only the official form of the more informal belief that "there is a God, and it isn't you". Elohim can include men like Moses, and Elohim is associated with the living, not the dead, which is problematic for the doctrine of the resurrection.
Saved from what?
Everlasting torment in the lake of fire.
So, saved from something that doesn't exist.
So unless I am 'saved', your god is going to put me in a lake of fire for all eternity?
All my sins were punished about 2000 years ago on the cross as God my Father poured out His wrath on His own Son .Does Jesus claim the punishment is everlasting ? Something tells me the Catholics beg to differ ... but what do I know - show your work
Yes -- the "Free Pass" ideology of those Saved by Lord Martin. All one needs do is cry out "Lord Lord" a few times while someone pours water on your head and .. you get a free pass through Judgement according to these folks.
Unfortunately - according to James and his Brother Jesus -- those who believe in "Faith Alone" are "Foolish" James 2 and Matt 7 respectively.
This again? That's for YOU and anybody else willing to believe that toothless threat to worry about.
Interesting choice of words. In my church, we were told that our sins were paid for, not punished, and that the crucifixion was depicted as a sacrifice and act of love, not an act of wrath.
This gets us back to the Christian concept of love. Here, love is building a torture pit, stocking it full of demons and fire, and tossing people into it after "warning" them to comply with assorted commandments or else. "Why did you force me to hurt you?" asks the abusive boyfriend and this god. I'm also shocked at what passes for love in, "Love the sinner, hate the sin," which manifests as hating the sinner. Depicting a blood sacrifice as an act of love is pretty off-putting as well.