Originally posted by Proper Knob
Yep. We've put a man on the moon, we can now play chess with people around the world using the internet, we've sent space craft to the edge of our solar system, life expectantcy has risen due to human advances in medical science, the X-43A flew at 7000mph, planes fly all round the world everyday.
But that evolution thing you got it wrong, that doesn't fit in with the srciputres that were written 2000yrs ago. So it can't be correct.
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Yep. We've put a man on the moon,
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That was quite an impressive feat for mankind. It really shows that power of the human mind. Incredible.
However, I am also impressed that God's creation is so precise that the mathematics of placing a man on the moon works. The timing of the orbits and rotations of these objects had to be relied upon in order for the math to work out.
So the beautiful precision of God's creation also impresses me about the moon landing.
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we can now play chess with people around the world using the internet, we've sent space craft to the edge of our solar system, life expectantcy has risen due to human advances in medical science, the X-43A flew at 7000mph, planes fly all round the world everyday.
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These things are also very impressive. But how can I possibly assume that the source of such a human mind is not greater?
You cannot give what you do not have to give.
"He who planted the ear, does He not hear? He who formed the eye, does He not see?" (Psalm 94:9)
I think man's intelligent technology testifies to the intelligence that is there designed in nature. Man is utilizing intelligently those intelligent laws by which the univere runs.
"The hearing ear and the seeing eye, Jehovah has made them both." (Prov. 20:12)
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But that evolution thing you got it wrong, that doesn't fit in with the srciputres that were written 2000yrs ago. So it can't be correct.
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There may have been some evolutionary thing going on. I think science should look more into cataclysmic events which
suddenly altered life forms.
The Darwinian gradualism I find less credible. Along with mass extinctions perhaps there were also sudden mass alterations. I would like to see some evolutionists really explore that possibility.
Now complaining about the age of the Scripture, ie. Genesis, I find is a kind of "Damned if you do, Damned if you don't proposition".
If the Scripture was written only a few decades ago skeptics would complain that it doesn't have the wisdom of many centries to give it credence. It is too modern and fadish.
On the other hand if it was written long ago they make the oppoosite complaint that it is too old.
So my response to this complaint is like
"We played the flute to you, and you did not dance; and we have sung a dirge, and you did not weep." (Luke 7:32)
God did very well to communicate to the largest number of people in all cultures that the world was created by Himself - exhaustive scientific details not provided.
I mean everybody should be able to understand that
" In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. "
It was not the divine intention apparently to give us 66 volumes on the actual nature of a drop of water, though it probably would take as much to exhaustively discribe it.