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#101 Unread post by iwannadie »

ZooTech wrote: No, what I am saying is that no Creationist would ever deny the existence of variation. You and I do not look alike, nor do we have exactly the same physical attributes, but we are both humans. And a toad is a toad no matter how different they look. You can watch toads adapt to different environments for millions of years if you like, but in the end you still have a toad. Not one bit of intelligence is added to its genetic code. Mutations always result in the loss of information, so how did a simple one-celled critter evolve into a human being? Oh yeah...I forgot...given enough time it would, which is where the whole "millions of years" rap comes from.

Show me even one example.
ok keeping with the frogs cause i like them. frogs that live in ponds and wet lands are green right. frogs that live in the rain forest amongst colorfull folors are not green, they are in fact the color of their enviorment. how does that 'change' happen by lose of information? we can assume the original 2 frogs on the arc were green, but now we have frogs of Many different colors and sizes and skills. BUT you say that happens because they lost information? how did a green frog loose information and some how became a vast variety of colors that happen to match its surroundings exactly? even better what about the poisonous frogs in the rain forest? did all the other frogs in the world forget how to be poisonous? or did that one particual type of frog Learn how to survive?

another species incase your getting tired of 'toads'. theres a type of octopus that can change its skin color and patteren totally to match its enviorment. its a very specific pattern. however theres many many types of octopus arent there that cant do any thing remotely like change their color. i guess they all 'lost' information and that one type kept his again it happens to be a specific ability that reflects where it lives?
http://www.big-boys.com/articles/octopus1.html

what about a cactus(as i see them every day). you cant tell me noah had cacti on his arc, and you cant tell me a cactus lived for 40 days under water and neither did its seeds that cant happen. you also cant tell me how any other fragile plant lived for 40 days under water because that didnt happen either no matter what your imagination tells you.

theres supposed to be like 150,000 different types of butterflies, your saying all of them came from 2 original butterflys on the arc. and that some how wherever that arc landed these fragile creatures that die if the wind blows them to hard managed to spread across the Entire globe? as they spread they managed to Loose information and some how become more adapt to their enviorment? i could go on its to easy.
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What's amazing is that you actually clicked SUBMIT after typing that last paragraph. A frog "fought off every natural enemy along the way"? You mean the natural enemies that Noah had aboard the ark? I'm sure he wouldn't go to the trouble of rescuing two of every critter only to let them loose at random to fight one another. :roll:
how did noah prevent it? the arc lands/crashes whatever, the doors open all these thousands of animals are right next to each other competing for food. how does a lion not eat a deer after being starved for 40 days? did noah let the 2 deer loose then an hour later let the 2 lions loose? what would the lions have to eat? if they eat one of any other animal around that would kill off the entire species of that animal. the 2 deer would take many years to reproduce to provide enough food for the lions to eat in a month. explain how you think carnivores ate without whipping out every other animal as they were all released within a small distance of each other? what did all the herbivores eat when they got off the arc? rain for 40 days would have killed all the plant life, certainly not enough food for all the animals? you yourself said the seeds survived not the plants, it takes along time for plants to grow and fill an area, certainly animals all in a small area would out eat the plants faster than they could grow back.
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That's just it, Bubba, Creation is science, so I'm not "taking a bit from one and a bit from the other" and making it all fit my arguments. Everyone seems to think Christians have to rely on faith alone, without one shred of physical or scientific evidence to go on, and I'm here to tell you you're flat wrong. I have studied Creation and evolution and have come to the conclusion that the latter makes no sense whatsoever. And I see evidence for Creation all around, not to mention how the events in the Middle East are playing into prophesy like they were following a script. And I don't expect you to "blindly follow my theory", on the contrary you are the one who is blind, my friend. You follow a completely unproven theory forced upon school kids because it's the only explanation of origin that doesn't go against the misinterpreted "separation of church and state" clause.
your opinions are yours alone, if you stopped trying to talk down to people saying we are all wrong and your right maybe you wouldnt come off as an angry father figure lol. no thing to me has ever been PROVEN out of the bible. no event in the middle east is written in the bible either. your reading more into something than is there. show me this exact script that the conflict in the middle east is following. show me something that doesnt read as jibberish. im sure you/whoever read 'a great strife will occur in the sand' and yup thats a script the bible predicted the war in iraq sure enough exactly what happened.

so yea... now go on and talk down to me, pick on some spelling or verbage error like usual, then get all defensive and say im flat out wrong.[/b]
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#102 Unread post by ZooTech »

I'm the angry one?

Anyway, who won the presidential election, iwannadie? Oh yeah...a conservative Christian named George W. Bush. You say my viewpoints are mine alone, yet the red states won. How odd you should overlook that. I may be the only Christian on these forums that isn't so concerned with remaining popular or liked that I keep my mouth shut when my beliefs are challenged, but make no mistake about it I am not alone. And the last election proves to me that you, my friend, are in the minority. Your rants about the logistics of the ark are juvenile at best. And nothing I present to you about Creationism will get through, so just keep believing against all odds that we somehow formed over billions of years due to one random mutation after another and all the while each and every transitional being (missing links) vanished without a trace. In the end you will have to present this grand theory to your Creator and I don't believe he'll be too thrilled to hear about it.
iwannadie wrote: ok keeping with the frogs cause i like them. frogs that live in ponds and wet lands are green right. frogs that live in the rain forest amongst colorfull folors are not green, they are in fact the color of their enviorment. how does that 'change' happen by lose of information?
Man invented miniature horses within the last hundred years, right? So would Noah be required to bring two miniature horses along on the ark? No, all he would need is two plain ol' horses. All the information needed to produce quarter horses, apaloosas, draft horses, and miniature horses would be contained in the genes of two thoroughbreds. Evolution, however, states that over time mutations occurred in different creatures that led to the development of additional sensors, appendages, and so forth...yet all the mutuations we observe today result in the loss, not the gain of an ability or attribute. With that in mind, it seems as though evolution has its work cut out for it if it is to explain how millions of loss-producing mutations turned an ameoba into a human. The complexity of the human eye alone should be enough to convince anyone this is not possible. However, evolution appeals to those that do not wish to acknowledge God due to their desire to live unaccountable to Him. But I, for one, choose not to ignore the elephant in the kitchen.
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#103 Unread post by Toyuzu »

iwannadie wrote:
your opinions are yours alone,
Wrong. I for one agree with him.

One gripe though, zoo: If you truly are arguing the Christian viewpoint, remember we are to speak the truth in love. Don't you think you are just a bit abrasive at times? I also take issue with your occasional use of profanity. If you are claiming to be a Christian, please restrain yourself and set a Godly example. Not to mention the fact that this is a family forum. That precludes the use of profanity as well.
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ZooTech wrote:I'm the angry one?

Anyway, who won the presidential election, iwannadie? Oh yeah...a conservative Christian named George W. Bush. You say my viewpoints are mine alone, yet the red states won. How odd you should overlook that. I may be the only Christian on these forums that isn't so concerned with remaining popular or liked that I keep my mouth shut when my beliefs are challenged, but make no mistake about it I am not alone. And the last election proves to me that you, my friend, are in the minority. Your rants about the logistics of the ark are juvenile at best. And nothing I present to you about Creationism will get through, so just keep believing against all odds that we somehow formed over billions of years due to one random mutation after another and all the while each and every transitional being (missing links) vanished without a trace. In the end you will have to present this grand theory to your Creator and I don't believe he'll be too thrilled to hear about it.
iwannadie wrote: ok keeping with the frogs cause i like them. frogs that live in ponds and wet lands are green right. frogs that live in the rain forest amongst colorfull folors are not green, they are in fact the color of their enviorment. how does that 'change' happen by lose of information?
Man invented miniature horses within the last hundred years, right? So would Noah be required to bring two miniature horses along on the ark? No, all he would need is two plain ol' horses. All the information needed to produce quarter horses, apaloosas, draft horses, and miniature horses would be contained in the genes of two thoroughbreds. Evolution, however, states that over time mutations occurred in different creatures that led to the development of additional sensors, appendages, and so forth...yet all the mutuations we observe today result in the loss, not the gain of an ability or attribute. With that in mind, it seems as though evolution has its work cut out for it if it is to explain how millions of loss-producing mutations turned an ameoba into a human. The complexity of the human eye alone should be enough to convince anyone this is not possible. However, evolution appeals to those that do not wish to acknowledge God due to their desire to live unaccountable to Him. But I, for one, choose not to ignore the elephant in the kitchen.
bush, the great christian that was selling cocain when he was young? ya im glad you found his values so great you voted for him, had he been in your area and someone you know died because of his cocain maybe you change your mind. or maybe the idea that bush supported terrorism in his youth makes him a great president i dont know.

but you didnt bother to answer any of my points just dissmiss then as juvenile. so whatever i guess its not worth it anymore.

i live my life wanting to be a good person because thats how i want to live. i dont need the fear of eternal hell scaring me in to be a good person.
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#105 Unread post by iwannadie »

Toyuzu wrote:
iwannadie wrote:
your opinions are yours alone,
Wrong. I for one agree with him.

One gripe though, zoo: If you truly are arguing the Christian viewpoint, remember we are to speak the truth in love. Don't you think you are just a bit abrasive at times? I also take issue with your occasional use of profanity. If you are claiming to be a Christian, please restrain yourself and set a Godly example. Not to mention the fact that this is a family forum. That precludes the use of profanity as well.
your opinions are your own as well. my point is everyone has their own unique opinions. you may agree with ZooTech on a few things but its obvious from your post not all of them, so you have your own unique opinions is my point.
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iwannadie wrote:
ZooTech wrote:I'm the angry one?

Anyway, who won the presidential election, iwannadie? Oh yeah...a conservative Christian named George W. Bush. You say my viewpoints are mine alone, yet the red states won. How odd you should overlook that. I may be the only Christian on these forums that isn't so concerned with remaining popular or liked that I keep my mouth shut when my beliefs are challenged, but make no mistake about it I am not alone. And the last election proves to me that you, my friend, are in the minority. Your rants about the logistics of the ark are juvenile at best. And nothing I present to you about Creationism will get through, so just keep believing against all odds that we somehow formed over billions of years due to one random mutation after another and all the while each and every transitional being (missing links) vanished without a trace. In the end you will have to present this grand theory to your Creator and I don't believe he'll be too thrilled to hear about it.
iwannadie wrote: ok keeping with the frogs cause i like them. frogs that live in ponds and wet lands are green right. frogs that live in the rain forest amongst colorfull folors are not green, they are in fact the color of their enviorment. how does that 'change' happen by lose of information?
Man invented miniature horses within the last hundred years, right? So would Noah be required to bring two miniature horses along on the ark? No, all he would need is two plain ol' horses. All the information needed to produce quarter horses, apaloosas, draft horses, and miniature horses would be contained in the genes of two thoroughbreds. Evolution, however, states that over time mutations occurred in different creatures that led to the development of additional sensors, appendages, and so forth...yet all the mutuations we observe today result in the loss, not the gain of an ability or attribute. With that in mind, it seems as though evolution has its work cut out for it if it is to explain how millions of loss-producing mutations turned an ameoba into a human. The complexity of the human eye alone should be enough to convince anyone this is not possible. However, evolution appeals to those that do not wish to acknowledge God due to their desire to live unaccountable to Him. But I, for one, choose not to ignore the elephant in the kitchen.
bush, the great christian that was selling cocain when he was young? ya im glad you found his values so great you voted for him, had he been in your area and someone you know died because of his cocain maybe you change your mind. or maybe the idea that bush supported terrorism in his youth makes him a great president i dont know.

but you didnt bother to answer any of my points just dissmiss then as juvenile. so whatever i guess its not worth it anymore.

i live my life wanting to be a good person because thats how i want to live. i dont need the fear of eternal hell scaring me in to be a good person.
What do you think a Christian is? A Christian is NOT a person that has led a perfect life. Every one of us has done stupid things, including George Bush. It's not the life you live that makes you a Christian.

Another question, why are you so bitter?
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Relsek wrote:
iwannadie wrote:
ZooTech wrote:I'm the angry one?

Anyway, who won the presidential election, iwannadie? Oh yeah...a conservative Christian named George W. Bush. You say my viewpoints are mine alone, yet the red states won. How odd you should overlook that. I may be the only Christian on these forums that isn't so concerned with remaining popular or liked that I keep my mouth shut when my beliefs are challenged, but make no mistake about it I am not alone. And the last election proves to me that you, my friend, are in the minority. Your rants about the logistics of the ark are juvenile at best. And nothing I present to you about Creationism will get through, so just keep believing against all odds that we somehow formed over billions of years due to one random mutation after another and all the while each and every transitional being (missing links) vanished without a trace. In the end you will have to present this grand theory to your Creator and I don't believe he'll be too thrilled to hear about it.
iwannadie wrote: ok keeping with the frogs cause i like them. frogs that live in ponds and wet lands are green right. frogs that live in the rain forest amongst colorfull folors are not green, they are in fact the color of their enviorment. how does that 'change' happen by lose of information?
Man invented miniature horses within the last hundred years, right? So would Noah be required to bring two miniature horses along on the ark? No, all he would need is two plain ol' horses. All the information needed to produce quarter horses, apaloosas, draft horses, and miniature horses would be contained in the genes of two thoroughbreds. Evolution, however, states that over time mutations occurred in different creatures that led to the development of additional sensors, appendages, and so forth...yet all the mutuations we observe today result in the loss, not the gain of an ability or attribute. With that in mind, it seems as though evolution has its work cut out for it if it is to explain how millions of loss-producing mutations turned an ameoba into a human. The complexity of the human eye alone should be enough to convince anyone this is not possible. However, evolution appeals to those that do not wish to acknowledge God due to their desire to live unaccountable to Him. But I, for one, choose not to ignore the elephant in the kitchen.
bush, the great christian that was selling cocain when he was young? ya im glad you found his values so great you voted for him, had he been in your area and someone you know died because of his cocain maybe you change your mind. or maybe the idea that bush supported terrorism in his youth makes him a great president i dont know.

but you didnt bother to answer any of my points just dissmiss then as juvenile. so whatever i guess its not worth it anymore.

i live my life wanting to be a good person because thats how i want to live. i dont need the fear of eternal hell scaring me in to be a good person.
What do you think a Christian is? A Christian is NOT a person that has led a perfect life. Every one of us has done stupid things, including George Bush. It's not the life you live that makes you a Christian.

Another question, why are you so bitter?
im bitter because people rot their life away in prison for less than what bush did, but amazingly he gets off with it and goes onto be considered a great man. if the christian way is to forgive anything why dont we just let everyone out of jail who repents?
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#108 Unread post by ZooTech »

Toyuzu wrote:
iwannadie wrote:
your opinions are yours alone,
Wrong. I for one agree with him.

One gripe though, zoo: If you truly are arguing the Christian viewpoint, remember we are to speak the truth in love. Don't you think you are just a bit abrasive at times? I also take issue with your occasional use of profanity. If you are claiming to be a Christian, please restrain yourself and set a Godly example. Not to mention the fact that this is a family forum. That precludes the use of profanity as well.
Not gonna argue with ya, Toy, because you're right. I am not perfect, and I am easily frazzled when people attempt to discredit me by making me out to look like a superstitious fool rather than present me with "evidence" to debate against. And it's also hard to keep calm when I know for a fact there are like-minded individuals on this forum who choose not to stand up for their beliefs.

"Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 10:32-33 KJV)

If you folks can't defend your beliefs amongst those I would call friends here in this forum, how then do you expect to defend them amongst strangers? More than once I have been told I am alone in my beliefs, and until Toyuzu here had the courage to set them straight it would appear as though they are right. We need not turn this into a war against believers and non-believers, but when you see the opportunity to witness to your peers you are supposed to take it.

I have edited the offending post, Toy.

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ZooTech wrote:
Toyuzu wrote:
iwannadie wrote:
your opinions are yours alone,
Wrong. I for one agree with him.

One gripe though, zoo: If you truly are arguing the Christian viewpoint, remember we are to speak the truth in love. Don't you think you are just a bit abrasive at times? I also take issue with your occasional use of profanity. If you are claiming to be a Christian, please restrain yourself and set a Godly example. Not to mention the fact that this is a family forum. That precludes the use of profanity as well.
Not gonna argue with ya, Toy, because you're right. I am not perfect, and I am easily frazzled when people attempt to discredit me by making me out to look like a superstitious fool rather than present me with "evidence" to debate against. And it's also hard to keep calm when I know for a fact there are like-minded individuals on this forum who choose not to stand up for their beliefs.
yet you call me closed-minded and juvenile without taking any of my 'evidence' with the slightest grain of salt. we are all suppose to accept what you say while being talked down to then feel sorry for you because your feelings got hurt while you cursed your way through yet another post?
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#110 Unread post by BuzZz »

Witout getting into who's right and who's wrong(I don't feel the need to defend my own beliefs to anyone but myself).........
ZooTech wrote:

If you folks can't defend your beliefs amongst those I would call friends here in this forum, how then do you expect to defend them amongst strangers?
Why must someone defend what they believe to anyone else? Why be so antagonistic about the whole thing? What piont does it serve? Your not going to change anyone's opinion about anything, much less something as personal as this, by pizzin' them off. This applies to both sides of the arguement.
ZooTech wrote: More than once I have been told I am alone in my beliefs, and until Toyuzu here had the courage to set them straight it would appear as though they are right. We need not turn this into a war against believers and non-believers, but when you see the opportunity to witness to your peers you are supposed to take it.
Just to clarify this a bit, your not the only person here besides Toyuzu how believes what you do. The others have expressed thier beliefs, discussed them here(not argued) and are satisfied with the results.

Once again, someone not holding the same beliefs as you is not attacking you. And just because you can't convince someone to change thier opinion with an online discussion, dosen't mean one side is more or less correct than the other. In fact, I would be leery of someone who changed thier whole value system based on what was presented here, or any other online discussion. Would you trust the commitment of someone who did? Probably not.
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