Did Darwin go to heaven? (Read below before you answer)?
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Well if you believe in god, then yes i think he should have done (if he was a good person of course). But not for the reason you state.\n\nHe interpreted gods greater book, NATURE!  Why go to hell for that?\n\nWhy believe the manual over the product!  Sorry but if parts of it don't match what we see and observe for ourselves then the book is wrong.\n\nGo here...\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/origins/outline.html
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The ingredients you find to rationalize your disbelief amuses me! Come on, dude, FLEAS!!!LOL that is your way of proving their's no God!? Weak proof at best. You should go back to the guy who put that into your head and slap him!!!LOL( just kidding, don't do that!) Appendectomies, right? Well I don't remember any of God's prophets killed from a lack of appendix surgeries! Yet God has always healed HIS CHILDREN who love Him. God uses such problems as the appendix to judge grown ups,yet things go wrong, and little children die, but isn't it better that they don't have to go on in this world but rather in a perfect world with their Father? Ohh yea, you believe that's it for the child, no chance, no hope, no love. Your beliefs sentence those children to nothingness and loss. Is that right? The "beef" as you say is in the Bible and you're starving yourself trying to devour the scraps dropped from Darwin's table. But his table is empty by Darwin's own admission. Darwin said "If one could prove that single-celled organisms can split then I am wrong." (I'm paraphrasing) And they can split as your precious science has proven. So why do scientists continue to back Darwin's THEORY? Because they would rather back a lie that they discovered rather than the truth that makes them useless. I'll tell you another miracle of God, friend. The miracle of God changing your heart, and that's the one that's harder than any other, but IT CAN HAPPEN if you'd let it.
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I think if I would ever GO to Heaven that I would not want to COME BACK!\n\nThere is a really cool story written by Mark Twain...something about Capt. Stromfield...don't know the name.  Basically this man dies, goes to "heaven," and sees all these strange creatures.  They try to communicate but have a hard time.  He asks where his harp, wings, and halo are.  Soon he realizes he is in the wrong place, and the "door greeters" congratulate him - he has figured out that there couldn't be just ONE heaven to suit everyone - we make our own "Heaven."\n\nI don't know about making our own heaven, but it makes you think... will all souls find the same joy in the same heaven?  Hmmmm....
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hold on, lmme read. \n\nill add my own after.\n\nokay wel lthese arent exactly funny biut theyre true.\n\n1. you defend Ted Haggard, even though hes a Crystal Meth smokin, gay prostitute bangin' hypocrite.\n\n2. regardless of the massive amoutns of corroberating evidence that supports evolution you still claim that evolution has no foot to stand on.\n\n3. you claim that the vast majority of scientists actually beleive in god but, so they can continue to beleive othersise, deny his existence. \n\n4. single celled organisms eventually becoming multicelled organisms is laughable. but believing that god taook the form of a talking, burning (yet nonconsuming) shrubbery isperfectly logical.\n\n\nso yeah...not so funny....i think im gonna create my own list.
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33. mary is just his mother, so no. I also know that you can go to heaven if you get saved and the way that you get saved is if you believe that Jesus died on the cross from your sins, rose on the third day, and then you have to confess to God in prayer that you are a sinner and that you believe He died on the cross for your sins and ask for His forgiveness on your sins and it is THAT simple, salvation is a free gift, we can't earn it. I am a baptist who believes (let me rephrase that, I KNOW) that this stuff I said is true. My name is Matthew James Needham and don't be shy to contact me on this. my email address is im_proud2b_a_christian@yahoo.c...
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You know if you click on his name and go to his profile  you can email him your question. Why do you post something like this for others to answer? Are they sitting on his shoulder? Do they know how he gets his information?  You really should just ask him directly. Jim_Darwin does a lot of research on religion. He reads a lot of books. This is one of the driving forces in his life. To get at what is real. To find the truth that works for him. To pick apart all the things that don't make sense. Are you saying that what he posted isn't in the bible? Did he make it up? Why does it bother you so much if it is true? He didn't write the bible, he is just showing what he has found and why he doesn't follow that book. Talk to him personally and I bet you get a whole new opinion on him as a real person not just some Y!A Religion/Spirituality character.\nLove & Light\nSharon\nOne Planet = One People
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I'm not "saved".  I don't subscribe to religious dogma. But...I do believe in intelligent design.  I do support people who choose to embrace a faith, but there is so much ridiculous infighting over dogma in Christianity that I cannot stomach it enough to hang out with you guys...but like I said, I support AND respect you and your BASIC beliefs.\n\nMy grandfather used to give dissertations years ago about the numerous holes in the THEORY of evolution and the desperation (back then) on the part of science (anthropologists, elitist collegiate circles, etc) to push the theory into the main stream.  \n\nNow you have TONS of people in the mainstream who find comfort in feeling free of having to worry about accountability to a moral code and don't want to be bothered by the idea of embracing faith, and especially don't want to be bothered with any kind of associated moral code, so they've adopted the theory of Evolution and formed a giant clique that frequently bashes Christianity for being "fictional". I believe the THEORY is a GREAT excuse for the masses to rid themselves of moral accountability.  In other words, no creator, no pesky guidelines to follow.\n\nIts simple math, get rid of "God" by berating him as fiction (the most unoriginal comparison of late is to put God on the same level as Santa Claus, for instance) and you don't have to worry about following the guidelines associated with that, clearing the way for a absolute hedonism. \n\nCouple that with the fact that religion is getting a bad name for various hypocrisies of late and suddenly you have a BUNCH of smug little elitists clogging up colleges and licking their lips for a chance to answer a quesion like this one, just so they can break out their borrowed philosophy on people like you (...and technically me) as if being attacked by that citations with the word "logic" loosely cobbled to them is going to change the mind or heart of someone who actually "gets it" and has some level of faith.\n\nYour point about the random odds of life occuring is extremely sound as well as the GIGANTIC hole in terms of how and why the sexes evolved, although there are some relatively interesting explanations based on "retrofit" assumptions, and to that end, you will get a slew of those following my answer.\n\nThe worst part about it is the arrogance of the people who purport the THEORY like it's a fact, looking down their psuedo intellectual noses at  people who choose to have faith in something other than mass acceptance of "monkey science" fiction.\n\nPsuedo-intellectual snobbery follows this answer - guaranteed.\n\nUPDATE - whew...yep, you attracted some monkey loving trolls, moth to flame on this question...check the bottom three...WOW, totally unbalanced close minded elitist God haters.\n\nEMILYROSE - nice demonic name choice by the way - perfect example of the elitist collegiate set bent on snobbery toward people who choose to have faith.  Why I feel I the need to defend them is MY choice, but stuffing this question full of your grandiloquent parroting full of polysyllabic science fiction is just the type of typical response I see from the jejune masses who overpay institutions desperate to eliminate spirituality.\n\nSo, what the hell, Im all for fighting fire with fire. I enter this information here, copied from the website and encourage all who do not believe in evolution to follow the link or take this to people who "struggle" with the temptation to fit in with the arrogance of the evolunist legion that will mock them for their beliefs...try this on:\n\nScience Itself Refutes Darwinism \n\n• "From goo to you by way of the zoo." - Frank Peretti6\n\n• According to the theory of evolution, at some time in the distant past there was no life in the universe -- just elements and chemical compounds. Somehow, these chemicals combined and came to life.\n\n• However
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for those that do believe that, by your definition, because i was forced to be saved in kindergarden (my teacher told us all that if we didnt believe we would go to hell and suffer for eternity being tortured and burned - being 5/6 that kinda scares ya right into believing).   but now i am agnostic and dont believe the bible. does that mean im still saved? lol
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Dear Sonya,\n\nAbout 2000 years ago, God came to earth in the form of a man (Jesus). He lived physically on earth for about 30 years. He was crucified (nailed to a cross) by men who hated him. He (his body) died on the cross that same evening. He was then taken down from the cross and buried in a tomb.\n\nOn the third day after he was buried, he (his body) came back to life. After this, he was seen alive for a period of 40 days by more than 500 people. Many of these people who saw him alive went off and told other people that Jesus was alive. After 40 days, Jesus ascended up into heaven.\n\nJesus died on the cross to pay for your sins (and mine). If you repent (turn away from sin), and commit your life to Jesus Christ, you will become one of God's children. You can then live in daily relationship with the God of the Universe, and when you die one day, you can go to heaven to live with God for ever.\n\nFor a brief explanation of how to come into relationship with the God of the Universe, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/new/essence.html\n\n--\n\nI used to be an atheist. Over a period of time however, I grew convinced of the existence of the Christian God, and ultimately committed my life to Christ. \n\nFor a draft-version of my journey from atheism to Christ, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/chri/testimony/seek.html\n\nIf you would like to know more about Jesus, feel free to contact me.\n\nCordially,\nJohn
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Sir Arthur Keith (Evolution Expert) himself said it best: "Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We [evolutionists] believe it because the only alternative is special creation [God], and that is unthinkable." \n\nWhat proof do we have of evolution? None at all.  One responder said you were "simplistic"...another cited the "proof" of amino acids.  Any honest/knowledgeable inquirer would recognise that those were VERY simplistic answers.  He wrote "Next comes single cells...".  Wow!  That was an easy transition...and where/how does he maintain the possibility of that? Those do nothing to support their theory, but I guess its all they've got.\n\nWhile we struggle to find the elusive "missing link", in reality there are missing links between every species. How does DNA suddenly decide to produce something other than it is programmed for? Where did those first single celled creatures come from? Where did the matter for the "big bang" come from? \n\nThere is no proof that you are reading this letter as a result of an explosion 14 billion years ago. The evolutionist accepts that origin by "faith", just as the believer accepts our Creator by faith.  However, the current scientific evidence does not support evolutionary theory, rather, it refutes it.  Why does is live on?  Because in the effort to find the origin of life outside of God, its all they've got.
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Ummmm Last time I checked humans have never evolved into monkeys.  However, there has been a lot of scientific research indicating that apes may have evolved into humans over very long amounts of time.   Evolution is something that occurs over an extremely long amount of time... if humans started living in water now- in thousands of years we could live like a fish. Do your research and don't judge people on what they do or do not believe. That isn't very Christian-like is it? Christians are supposed to be really nice and respectful aren't they?  The Bible could hold some truth, or it could possibly just be a way of setting good morals. No one knows for sure if God exists, and thats a fact.  I think you need to do some research.... I mean good grief- you thought we evolved into monkeys. I think you're a little backwards.  haha!
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Well, I don't believe in Heaven *or* Hell, so I'd have to say no - but it raises a good point.\nWhat if I'm wrong and when I die I meet God - I'd have to believe and then, because I believed I'd get into Heaven. Because non-believers go to Hell.....\nHmmm, I'm confused.
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I can ask God any question I like, any time I want.  I can't ask Darwin a thing because he's dead.\n\nWhen we're in heaven and IF I see Darwin there, I'd like to ask him "why the evolution theory?"
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Just commenting on Darwin's deathbed:\n\n< Shortly after his death, Lady Hope addressed a gathering of young men and women at the educational establishment founded by the evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody at Northfield, Massachusetts. She had, she maintained, visited Darwin on his deathbed. He had been reading the Epistle to the Hebrews, had asked for the local Sunday school to sing in a summerhouse on the grounds, and had confessed: "How I wish I had not expressed my theory of evolution as I have done." He went on, she said, to say that he would like her to gather a congregation since he "would like to speak to them of Christ Jesus and His salvation, being in a state where he was eagerly savouring the heavenly anticipation of bliss."\n\nWith Moody's encouragement, Lady Hope's story was printed in the Boston Watchman Examiner. The story spread, and the claims were republished as late as October 1955 in the Reformation Review and in the Monthly Record of the Free Church of Scotland in February 1957. These attempts to fudge Darwin's story had already been exposed for what they were, first by his daughter Henrietta after they had been revived in 1922. "I was present at his deathbed," she wrote in the Christian for February 23, 1922. "Lady Hope was not present during his last illness, or any illness. I believe he never even saw her, but in any case she had no influence over him in any department of thought or belief. He never recanted any of his scientific views, either then or earlier. We think the story of his conversion was fabricated in the U.S.A. . . . The whole story has no foundation whatever." >\n\n(I call that bearing false witness. For shame.)\n\nThe research I've done on pro-creationist "scientists" indicate that most of them are associated with religious schools. No surprise there.
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I asked too, and was told he has always been present, which scares me and answer a lot of questions.  I guess he was around forever.  He was the one who created everything like, dinosaurs, etc. So I guess he got better along the way and created man and we have been here every since.  WOW!  I never thought of it that way.  Still confused, I am on a mission know.  To be honest I don't think we are going to get a straight answer because that will prove the true existence and challenge everything that we believe.  Imagine what would become of the world if we found out this was all a farce to keep most of us straight.  It is because of religion that we are doing okay today, of course man has rules. laws, and regulations for the ones who are non-believer's and the slackers. That would open up another Pandora's Box.  WOW!
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Damn...I was searching for this answer too...about 3 years ago...and read it somewhere in an islamic book...yes infants do go straight to heaven if they pass away...thats because their soul is still unconscience...they do not understand what they are doing...cannot differentiate between right and wrong...I think that was it...
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I read the answer to the question "How did marsupials get to Australia?" and the article "The Grand Canyon, Things That Make Evolutionists Look Stupid". Is it the same people that say evolutionists have no evidence and that their explanations are ridiculous? Whoa!\n\nGood to know that several christian churchs/organizations accept evolution as a valid theory and that it doesn't contradict their belief. And I wonder too, is it ok for christians to lie in such shameless ways?