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Here's your chance: Stump the Creationist

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barek333

Member
Is it your claim that without evolution all the creatures that have been fossilized haad to have lived at the same time?

No, my claim is that if Angellous thinks that everything came to be at the same point in time there just wouldn't be enough place.

But of course if he said that they 'poofed' into existence at different periods of time then it would be possible and it would be like God is trying to deliberatley trick us by 'putting them there at different points of time. Which then would be the same as if he put fossils in the specific places in the ground. The both claims are then even more improbable then if everything 'poofed' into existence at once.

But since the time humanity started to observe the nature there were no signs of new species that 'poofed' into existence. And since we observed a lot of species going extinct in the same period of time we can raise the question why then if during the time before our observation started species came to be but now suddenly that is not the case. It can also be a part of His plan...but I just think that is..even for this kind of discussion to far-fetched :)

Oh and Angellous thank you for complimenting my English :)
 

newhope101

Active Member
No, my claim is that if Angellous thinks that everything came to be at the same point in time there just wouldn't be enough place.

But of course if he said that they 'poofed' into existence at different periods of time then it would be possible and it would be like God is trying to deliberatley trick us by 'putting them there at different points of time. Which then would be the same as if he put fossils in the specific places in the ground. The both claims are then even more improbable then if everything 'poofed' into existence at once.

But since the time humanity started to observe the nature there were no signs of new species that 'poofed' into existence. And since we observed a lot of species going extinct in the same period of time we can raise the question why then if during the time before our observation started species came to be but now suddenly that is not the case. It can also be a part of His plan...but I just think that is..even for this kind of discussion to far-fetched :)

Oh and Angellous thank you for complimenting my English :)

Your horizontal gene transfer killed LUCA, your tree of life is a burning bush, you cannot 'poof' life into existence in a controlled laboratory environment and still you criticize others stances

The vast majority of the scientific community and academia supports evolutionary theory as the only explanation that can fully account for observations in the fields of biology, paleontology, anthropology, and others.[16][17][18][19][20] One 1987 estimate found that "700 scientists ... (out of a total of 480,000 U.S. earth and life scientists) ... give credence to creation-science".[21] An expert in the evolution-creationism controversy, professor and author Brian Alters states that "99.9 percent of scientists accept evolution".

There is a notable difference between the opinion of scientists and that of the general public in the United States. A 2009 poll by Pew Research Center found that "87% of scientists say that humans and other living things have evolved over time and that evolution is the result of natural processes such as natural selection. Just 32% of the public accepts this as true."[39]
Level of support for evolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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newhope101

Active Member
I toy with the idea that the tree of life, that Adam & Eve ate from, as representative of "TOE". The 'evil' tree of life, so to speak. Materialistic, faithless, and reducing the power of God to an algorithm based on probabilities. It may be a literal account but nonethe less conveys this meaning.

That is, there will be those that adhere to creation account and those that eat of the reasonings of man and follow TOE, abandoning the 'love they had at first', or perhaps never had'.

The biblical spiritual tree of life requires faith, paricularly in light of toe's biased theoretical modelling and its exposure to the community as fact.

What do you believe the biblical Tree that Adam and Eve ate from to deserve death relates to?
 
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barek333

Member
The beginning of life has nothing to do with the ToE.

And I dont understand what point you wanted to make with those two segments. I mean you just acknowledged the fact that most of the people that do science for a living...so that means the ones who have the best understanding and information on the subject are by a big,big majority proponents of the ToE.

And the regular people of course dont understand it in such a big number..which is sad and I hope that number will increase during the time. And if they want to believe that god put that first speck of life there they sure can(until science positively solves that one too).
 

Im an Atheist

Biologist
I am, as in many other subjects, a master of the science of creationism.

I would like to see if any of you can stump me with a respectful question in the attempt to stump me.

I know that many creationist / evolutionist debates often deteriorate into both sides just insulting eachother. Let's commit to civility and keep the conversation friendly.

A laboratory has proven that life could of started off with-out a creator. They replicated early earth (primordial conditions), in the Lab, then placed separate organelles into the environment. The environment, was then zapped with electricity, to simulate lightening. I don't know how long it took, but eventually, the organelles came together to form a simple bacteria cell.

So now it has been proven life could of started without a creator, doesn't that leave even more doubt?
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
This tells me coming from a Christian that you do not believe in the one you choose to worship merely
because of the denial of truth, fact and wisdom.

That's because you have the higher reasoning skills of a two year old.
 

Quagmire

Imaginary talking monkey
Staff member
Premium Member
Well, congrats. Your English is beautiful.

I'm not creationist anymore. I just wanted to see what it felt like for a little while.

Not very stimulating.

I knew you weren't really a Creationist because you never accused yourself of not being a Christian.
 

Quagmire

Imaginary talking monkey
Staff member
Premium Member
That's poetry, Quag. Beautiful.

Truth is funnier than fiction.
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McBell

Unbound
I knew you weren't really a Creationist because you never accused yourself of not being a Christian.
Not to mention the fact that a 'real' creationist cannot go more than two posts in a row without revealing their blatant ignorance of Evolution.
 

David M

Well-Known Member
Most of these questions can be answered in a single sentence:

The everlasting, uncreated God created every living thing when he chose according to (what science calls) current species and no evolution has occured since then.

So how do you account for the indisputable fact that we observe evolution happening within species and we see new species evolving from old ones (especially true in the case of polyploidy in plants)?
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
By no longer being a Creationist, apparently.

I was no match for the powerful arguments presented against my view.

I found that I couldn't continue futher without trolling my own thread.
 

horizon_mj1

Well-Known Member
That's because you have the higher reasoning skills of a two year old.
As well as most people over two, but this does not negate facts being although not always pleasant or what people want them to be, are truth. I always disliked the supposed theoretical question; "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?" We now know that yes in fact it does. Sound waves are created by the gravitational pull to the ground and the tree impacting. Sound waves bounce within the earth's atmosphere for quite some time if not indefinitely.
 
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atanu

Member
Premium Member
Most of these questions can be answered in a single sentence:

The everlasting, uncreated God created every living thing when he chose according to (what science calls) current species and no evolution has occured since then.

Hello EA

Is this your answer or is this an answer from the book? I am curious to know since it is possible that essential created categories hold, only changing in externalities and that these essenential categories may not be same as current species classifications of science?

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