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  • R Ryan Johnston 0

    No, it doesn't. It could start as photo-sensitive tissue.

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    Why am I reminded of the start of the Holy Grail ? 'He could grip it by the husk'...... Christian come on all you MS suckups, defend your sugar-daddy now. - Chris Losinger - 11/07/2002

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      Christian Graus wrote: You're missing the point. It needs several complete parts to function AT ALL. Given its current design. "Human imagination has been sculpted by the universe within which it was born" Hmmmm...

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      Reverend Stan wrote: Given its current design. Design being the key word. Christian come on all you MS suckups, defend your sugar-daddy now. - Chris Losinger - 11/07/2002

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      • J John Aldrich

        I've recently read a online book entitled "Evolution Cruncher" which deals with the scientific facts behind both the Theory of Evolution & The Theory of Creation. What I have found, however slanted given the nature of the book, is a proponderance of evidence which leads me to believe that teh creation theory holds much more scientific water than Evolution Theory. to quote on passage from the book dealing with the age of the Earth: Po-218 HALOS - AND THE ORIGIN OF GRANITE In the late 1800s, scientists began studying rocks with microscopes in order to better understand their crystals and composition. Learning how to cut rocks into thin slices, they turned their microscopes on certain rocks, especially granite,—and found small colored concentric circles inside them. It was eventually realized that these were actually spherical shells that went around a central grain in the center (something like slicing an onion through the middle, and finding circles, circles inside circles.) These circles (actually sliced sections of the spheres) were given the name, "halos." We today call them "radiohalos." (The technical term is pleochroic halos.) A radiohalo is the mark left around a particle of a radioactive substance by the radiation coming from the particle. It can only form in a solid, such as rock, since in a liquid, or in molten rock, the mark would dissipate and could not be seen. 1 - There are many polonium 218, 214, and 210 halos in granite,—in fact, careful specimen counts and extrapolations based on them reveal that there are trillions upon trillions of them in granites all over the world. 2 - The vast majority of these polonium 218, 214, and 210 radiohalos have no uranium 238 halos with them. Therefore they are primary polonium halos, and not daughter products of uranium 238. 3 - The primary polonium 218 (Po-218) halos are totally independent of radioactive parents. They are original in all rock in which they are found. There is no evidence that they were caused by uranium in the central grain or by passing uranium streams. 4 - These independent Po-218 halos develop their half-life halo in only three minutes (in other words, they only emit radiation for only a few minutes), so the radiohalos had to be in those rocks when the rocks were first brought into existence. 5 - The rock in which they are found had to be solid at the time it was brought into existence, or those halos could not form inside it within that three minutes. However, all evolutionary theories say that the earth was molten fo

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        Here's some links: http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/dave_matson/young-earth/specific_arguments/moon_isotopes.html http://www.gate.net/~rwms/hum_ape_chrom.html http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/molgen http://lordibelieve.org/time/AgeEarthTC.htm ------------------------------------------ When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord, in his wisdom, didn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me. - Emo Phillips

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        • J John Aldrich

          I've recently read a online book entitled "Evolution Cruncher" which deals with the scientific facts behind both the Theory of Evolution & The Theory of Creation. What I have found, however slanted given the nature of the book, is a proponderance of evidence which leads me to believe that teh creation theory holds much more scientific water than Evolution Theory. to quote on passage from the book dealing with the age of the Earth: Po-218 HALOS - AND THE ORIGIN OF GRANITE In the late 1800s, scientists began studying rocks with microscopes in order to better understand their crystals and composition. Learning how to cut rocks into thin slices, they turned their microscopes on certain rocks, especially granite,—and found small colored concentric circles inside them. It was eventually realized that these were actually spherical shells that went around a central grain in the center (something like slicing an onion through the middle, and finding circles, circles inside circles.) These circles (actually sliced sections of the spheres) were given the name, "halos." We today call them "radiohalos." (The technical term is pleochroic halos.) A radiohalo is the mark left around a particle of a radioactive substance by the radiation coming from the particle. It can only form in a solid, such as rock, since in a liquid, or in molten rock, the mark would dissipate and could not be seen. 1 - There are many polonium 218, 214, and 210 halos in granite,—in fact, careful specimen counts and extrapolations based on them reveal that there are trillions upon trillions of them in granites all over the world. 2 - The vast majority of these polonium 218, 214, and 210 radiohalos have no uranium 238 halos with them. Therefore they are primary polonium halos, and not daughter products of uranium 238. 3 - The primary polonium 218 (Po-218) halos are totally independent of radioactive parents. They are original in all rock in which they are found. There is no evidence that they were caused by uranium in the central grain or by passing uranium streams. 4 - These independent Po-218 halos develop their half-life halo in only three minutes (in other words, they only emit radiation for only a few minutes), so the radiohalos had to be in those rocks when the rocks were first brought into existence. 5 - The rock in which they are found had to be solid at the time it was brought into existence, or those halos could not form inside it within that three minutes. However, all evolutionary theories say that the earth was molten fo

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          What makes me sick is Creaitonists calling their half-breed "science". All their arguments are "This and that is weir with Evolution theory, so they must be wrong and we must be right". Crap, if you ask my common sense. Th230(75380) --> Ra226(1600Y) --> Rn-222 (3.8d) -> Po-218 U238 is only one possible ancestor for th-230 How fast is dissipation in molten rock? the book argues itself that it takes only minutes for the Halo to create. Just because it's molten doesn't mean it flowing around. One global event that creates a an Po218 ancestor in a fusion just in the right time before the stone did cool down is still more probable than someone taking a big can of molten granite, speading it over earth and cooling it down under 3 minutes. There was a nice quote in german - I can only repeat it from mind and the translation is weak, but here it goes: "Sure we throw stones at any ridiculous new scientific theory written by an outsider. We even throw stones at new theories written by insiders. If the theory is any good, it can stand that. The habit of Creationists throwing cotton wool balls is what confuses us."


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          • J John Aldrich

            then explain the blueshift phenomenon. Also the fact that in order for the big bang theory to work, angular momentum would have been required. if the big bang actually occured as you suggest, the particles form the big bang woudl have moved outward at a constant velocity and never combined to form stellar gas clouds of hydrogen and helium unless acted upon by angular momentum. It woudl have taken angular momentum to create the universe as we know it. Are the laws of physics supposed to simply stop working because the big bang said so??


            It's good to see kids turning their minds to wholesum activities such as programming, instead of wasting their lives in the hedonistic disciplines of Sex, Drugs, & Rock & Roll... or Sex with Drugs, or Sex with Rocks while Rolling in Drugs, or whatever new-fangled perversions you little monsters have thought up now... [Shog9 on Kid Programmers]

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            the particles form the big bang woudl have moved outward at a constant velocity and never combined to form stellar gas clouds of hydrogen and helium unless acted upon by angular momentum. Or gravity. ------------------------------------------ When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord, in his wisdom, didn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me. - Emo Phillips

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            • S Shog9 0

              Jim A. Johnson wrote: What people call "creation theory" is just a lame-assed attempt to make the Biblical myth of creation seem reasonable. Ok, that whole paragraph was rather insulting, but i'll let it slide. I do suggest that you find a dictionary and read the entry for the word 'theory'. Jim A. Johnson wrote: Which seems more likely? Ah, well that's the rub though, isn't it? No matter how involved an explanation you come up with, it doesn't mean jack shit until someone believes it. In any case, how is when the Universe was created relevant?

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              I do suggest that you find a dictionary and read the entry for the word 'theory'. The word 'theory' has a different meaning in science than in vernacular english. Parhaps you'd also like to question the validity of 'atomic theory' because it's "only a theory". ------------------------------------------ When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord, in his wisdom, didn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me. - Emo Phillips

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                But what if God simply created everything in an expanding state - mid flight, with the starlight from the receeding galaxies already distributed as we observe it, with the correct doppler shifted wavelength and everything? "Human imagination has been sculpted by the universe within which it was born" Hmmmm...

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                what if he did not? Once upon a time, the call of scientific progress was not "Heureka", but "look, that's weird!". But everytime something doesn't fit now a creationist pops up and says "See - this was God!" And if something fits scinece it's "Why, god made it this way!" That's not science, that's religion. I don't want to destroy your ability to see God in any equation that leaves a small error remaining. But if you want to do science, keep god out of the equation (unless you find him scientifically - which I seriously doubt).


                To comply with a request by Mike Mullikin, the US will be given a break from all my statements for the duration of one week, up to and including July 17th, 2002, 19:05 MESZ
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                • J John Aldrich

                  I've recently read a online book entitled "Evolution Cruncher" which deals with the scientific facts behind both the Theory of Evolution & The Theory of Creation. What I have found, however slanted given the nature of the book, is a proponderance of evidence which leads me to believe that teh creation theory holds much more scientific water than Evolution Theory. to quote on passage from the book dealing with the age of the Earth: Po-218 HALOS - AND THE ORIGIN OF GRANITE In the late 1800s, scientists began studying rocks with microscopes in order to better understand their crystals and composition. Learning how to cut rocks into thin slices, they turned their microscopes on certain rocks, especially granite,—and found small colored concentric circles inside them. It was eventually realized that these were actually spherical shells that went around a central grain in the center (something like slicing an onion through the middle, and finding circles, circles inside circles.) These circles (actually sliced sections of the spheres) were given the name, "halos." We today call them "radiohalos." (The technical term is pleochroic halos.) A radiohalo is the mark left around a particle of a radioactive substance by the radiation coming from the particle. It can only form in a solid, such as rock, since in a liquid, or in molten rock, the mark would dissipate and could not be seen. 1 - There are many polonium 218, 214, and 210 halos in granite,—in fact, careful specimen counts and extrapolations based on them reveal that there are trillions upon trillions of them in granites all over the world. 2 - The vast majority of these polonium 218, 214, and 210 radiohalos have no uranium 238 halos with them. Therefore they are primary polonium halos, and not daughter products of uranium 238. 3 - The primary polonium 218 (Po-218) halos are totally independent of radioactive parents. They are original in all rock in which they are found. There is no evidence that they were caused by uranium in the central grain or by passing uranium streams. 4 - These independent Po-218 halos develop their half-life halo in only three minutes (in other words, they only emit radiation for only a few minutes), so the radiohalos had to be in those rocks when the rocks were first brought into existence. 5 - The rock in which they are found had to be solid at the time it was brought into existence, or those halos could not form inside it within that three minutes. However, all evolutionary theories say that the earth was molten fo

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                  Has the irony of using science to disprove science ever occured to you? "Human imagination has been sculpted by the universe within which it was born" Hmmmm...

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                  • C Christian Graus

                    I apologise. What I mean is, the difference between a species fundamentally changing, and changes that were already genetically present, as environmental conditions favour them. Christian come on all you MS suckups, defend your sugar-daddy now. - Chris Losinger - 11/07/2002

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                    Fundamentally? Look at the basic construction set. 7 Neck vertebra are surely not the perfect design for both mice, dolphins, humans and giraffes.


                    To comply with a request by Mike Mullikin, the US will be given a break from all my statements for the duration of one week, up to and including July 17th, 2002, 19:05 MESZ
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                      I'm afraid you're wrong, Evolution ( with a big E ) cannot be observed, nor is it backed up by fossil evidence ( that is to say there is no evidence of lots of stages in the path between two distinct species ). It is therefore a belief. Yes, because everytime evolutionists find an intermediate form, creationists say, "Ah ha! Now there are two gaps!" Evolution is FAR more than fossil evidence. If there were no fossils at all on earth, evolution would still have an enormous amount of evidence supporting it. The genetic evidence alone gives Evolution enough strength to stand on its own. ------------------------------------------ When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord, in his wisdom, didn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me. - Emo Phillips

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                      *LOL* good one!


                      To comply with a request by Mike Mullikin, the US will be given a break from all my statements for the duration of one week, up to and including July 17th, 2002, 19:05 MESZ
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                      • C Christian Graus

                        Reverend Stan wrote: Given its current design. Design being the key word. Christian come on all you MS suckups, defend your sugar-daddy now. - Chris Losinger - 11/07/2002

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                        I have no problem with the concept of intelligent design (i.e. Creation). I just see no reason to think that God might very well have used the process we perceive of as "natural evolution" to do the designing. Being from the American bible belt, I am *very* knowledgeable of the literalist interpretation of the bible. However, as far as I am concerned, there is nothing in the theory of evolution which directly challanges the creation story from the bible. It just fleshes it out a bit. Christians should stop wasting their time being hostile towards it. "Human imagination has been sculpted by the universe within which it was born" Hmmmm...

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                          Chris Losinger wrote: you give far too much credit to that which is nothing more than a string of RNA. And you give far too much credit to the idea that a living thing can change itself at will. You're saying that diseases would become immune to our antibiotics even if we had not subjected them to them ? Christian come on all you MS suckups, defend your sugar-daddy now. - Chris Losinger - 11/07/2002

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                          Christian Graus wrote: And you give far too much credit to the idea that a living thing can change itself at will. hold on here... i thought you were the one who brought "will" into this. :) Christian Graus wrote: You're saying that diseases would become immune to our antibiotics even if we had not subjected them to them ? of course not. -c


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                          • J John Aldrich

                            I've recently read a online book entitled "Evolution Cruncher" which deals with the scientific facts behind both the Theory of Evolution & The Theory of Creation. What I have found, however slanted given the nature of the book, is a proponderance of evidence which leads me to believe that teh creation theory holds much more scientific water than Evolution Theory. to quote on passage from the book dealing with the age of the Earth: Po-218 HALOS - AND THE ORIGIN OF GRANITE In the late 1800s, scientists began studying rocks with microscopes in order to better understand their crystals and composition. Learning how to cut rocks into thin slices, they turned their microscopes on certain rocks, especially granite,—and found small colored concentric circles inside them. It was eventually realized that these were actually spherical shells that went around a central grain in the center (something like slicing an onion through the middle, and finding circles, circles inside circles.) These circles (actually sliced sections of the spheres) were given the name, "halos." We today call them "radiohalos." (The technical term is pleochroic halos.) A radiohalo is the mark left around a particle of a radioactive substance by the radiation coming from the particle. It can only form in a solid, such as rock, since in a liquid, or in molten rock, the mark would dissipate and could not be seen. 1 - There are many polonium 218, 214, and 210 halos in granite,—in fact, careful specimen counts and extrapolations based on them reveal that there are trillions upon trillions of them in granites all over the world. 2 - The vast majority of these polonium 218, 214, and 210 radiohalos have no uranium 238 halos with them. Therefore they are primary polonium halos, and not daughter products of uranium 238. 3 - The primary polonium 218 (Po-218) halos are totally independent of radioactive parents. They are original in all rock in which they are found. There is no evidence that they were caused by uranium in the central grain or by passing uranium streams. 4 - These independent Po-218 halos develop their half-life halo in only three minutes (in other words, they only emit radiation for only a few minutes), so the radiohalos had to be in those rocks when the rocks were first brought into existence. 5 - The rock in which they are found had to be solid at the time it was brought into existence, or those halos could not form inside it within that three minutes. However, all evolutionary theories say that the earth was molten fo

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                            3 minutes? Was God on the phone or something while he created Earth? Why did it take him so long? Todd Smith

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                              If Evolution is not a faith, why are people so irrational when discussing it ? I did not say that makes it untrue, I said that makes it unobservable. That is true if it is a correct theory or not. Christian come on all you MS suckups, defend your sugar-daddy now. - Chris Losinger - 11/07/2002

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                              something doesn't become unobservable simply because it doesn't happen during one person's lifetime. anyway. i should've known better than to get into this discussion. it's about faith: faith in science or faith in the bible. pick your starting point and disbelieve the other side - it's actually quite predicatble :) cheers. -c


                              To explain Donald Knuth's relevance to computing is like explaining Paul's relevance to the Catholic Church. He isn't God, he isn't the Son of God, but he was sent by God to explain God to the masses.
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                                If Evolution is not a faith, why are people so irrational when discussing it ? I did not say that makes it untrue, I said that makes it unobservable. That is true if it is a correct theory or not. Christian come on all you MS suckups, defend your sugar-daddy now. - Chris Losinger - 11/07/2002

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                                Why can't? Many 'smaller' species (bacteria etc.) have very short generation cycles. And they do adapt... Why do you think the top antibiotica of the 80's don't work anymore? Sure people get emotional about Evolution. But science has fixed rules, much like a soccer match. Now some creationists come along, want to join the game and drop in a few more balls "because that's the way to the Savior". This can make people mad...


                                To comply with a request by Mike Mullikin, the US will be given a break from all my statements for the duration of one week, up to and including July 17th, 2002, 19:05 MESZ
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                                  I have no problem with the concept of intelligent design (i.e. Creation). I just see no reason to think that God might very well have used the process we perceive of as "natural evolution" to do the designing. Being from the American bible belt, I am *very* knowledgeable of the literalist interpretation of the bible. However, as far as I am concerned, there is nothing in the theory of evolution which directly challanges the creation story from the bible. It just fleshes it out a bit. Christians should stop wasting their time being hostile towards it. "Human imagination has been sculpted by the universe within which it was born" Hmmmm...

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                                  Reverend Stan wrote: Christians should stop wasting their time being hostile towards it. I guess it depends if the Bible is full of facts or suggestions. Big E evolution directly contradicts the Bible. Christian come on all you MS suckups, defend your sugar-daddy now. - Chris Losinger - 11/07/2002

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                                    what if he did not? Once upon a time, the call of scientific progress was not "Heureka", but "look, that's weird!". But everytime something doesn't fit now a creationist pops up and says "See - this was God!" And if something fits scinece it's "Why, god made it this way!" That's not science, that's religion. I don't want to destroy your ability to see God in any equation that leaves a small error remaining. But if you want to do science, keep god out of the equation (unless you find him scientifically - which I seriously doubt).


                                    To comply with a request by Mike Mullikin, the US will be given a break from all my statements for the duration of one week, up to and including July 17th, 2002, 19:05 MESZ
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                                    peterchen wrote: I don't want to destroy your ability to see God in any equation that leaves a small error remaining. But if you want to do science, keep god out of the equation (unless you find him scientifically - which I seriously doubt). Geez, Pete, I was just playing the Devil's advocate there. I have fought the good fight my entire life in the backwood hinterlands of the American bible belt defending the theory of evolution. I am willing to accept the notion that a God is behind it all, but it there is, there is no sin in trying to understand how God did it. "Human imagination has been sculpted by the universe within which it was born" Hmmmm...

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                                      Brit wrote: If you were a "master programmer" you would never create humans with all the crap DNA that is there. *ahem* Those are the comments...

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                                      Ah! :laugh: ------------------------------------------ When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord, in his wisdom, didn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me. - Emo Phillips

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                                        Then may I direct you to Evolution Facts which contains the full text of the book, which I have quoted only a extremely small portion of. I believe that you'll discover that every base has been covered and every scientific fact proven to the best of current scientific ability. It's an interesting read to say the least. It's good to see kids turning their minds to wholesum activities such as programming, instead of wasting their lives in the hedonistic disciplines of Sex, Drugs, & Rock & Roll... or Sex with Drugs, or Sex with Rocks while Rolling in Drugs, or whatever new-fangled perversions you little monsters have thought up now... [Shog9 on Kid Programmers]

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                                        Evolution facts: >>>> Someone will ask, “But what are the evidences that Creationism is true?” There are two. First, the only alternative is clearly disproved by a massive amount of findings. Second,—and if possible—even more solid, we have the very existence of everything about us! Whether it be the whirling of electrons in the atom, the orbit of our world which mysteriously does not decay and crash us into the sun, or the existence of a living creature. <<<< Who says the scientific theory of earth' creation as it's known now is the only single one alternative to creationism? It's like throwing away a whole basket of apples because of one rotten apple. There is no mystery in the earth not crashing into the sun. It just takes time with the bigger distances, ye know? You don't need god to put an electron into orbit, just a lot of tax payers money. "living creature" is a term coined by us. There is until now no evidence of a fundamental constructional difference between a rock, and a man.


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                                        • C Christian Graus

                                          Reverend Stan wrote: Christians should stop wasting their time being hostile towards it. I guess it depends if the Bible is full of facts or suggestions. Big E evolution directly contradicts the Bible. Christian come on all you MS suckups, defend your sugar-daddy now. - Chris Losinger - 11/07/2002

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                                          Christian Graus wrote: Big E evolution directly contradicts the Bible. How so? IMHO, it merely contradicts current literalist interpretations of the bible. For example, the bible says man was created from the materials of the earth itself, so does evolutionary theory. The bible says it took 7 days, but then goes on to say that such time frames are of little significance to God. To me the importance of the bible is not in gaining an understanding of how we got here, it is to gain an understanding of how to get out of here. Fighting science simply detracts from that goal. When confronted with evolutionary theory, the christian should just shrug and say "Well, if that is true than that is simply the process God used" and leave it at that. If Christianity determines to confront science head on, than Christianity will lose. The scientitifc method is simply too powerful - which is proven by the fact that Christians have been reduced to trying to employ scientific methodology to disprove scientific methodology but science has not been reduced to using religion to prove it's own methodlogy. "Human imagination has been sculpted by the universe within which it was born" Hmmmm...

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