Evolution deniers:  Why do you accept the work of men but reject the work of god?
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the question is terrific\ni as you know accept evolution\n\ni ponder practically every day "is there a god"\n\nas you know i feel the bible was written by men,\n\nso for me the question of "is the evidence of evolution showing me how god made me?"\n\nto all who said they dont like your question, they are crazy crazy
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evolution is just mans way of trying to understand how life got here and is how it is. Its a theory and not a proven fact. People just refuse to believe a higher power created them.\nI believe in breeding and that's it. God created basic life on the planet and then through breeding of those animals we got several different species in one classification of such.
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I agree with mr mister.No one is ignoring the OT. Evolution is man made ignorance.
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Do you understand that over two thirds of the world's Christians accept evolution as a matter of fact?\n\nAnd do you understand that over 85% of people belonging to other religions accept evolution a a matter of fact?\n\nYou seem to believe that religion and acceptance of the fact of evolution are somehow incompatible. Only for a small group of American fundamentalist 'Christians' is that the case. Most people see no dilemma.
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Evolutionists argue that life of all forms evolved from primitive to more complex forms in response to the environment.\n\nIntelligent designers argue that none of this evolution stuff would work without a higher intelligence (read God) to get it all going in the first place.  Generally seen as another attempt to inject fundamentalism into the government so we can enjoy the same kind of life as our muslim brothers.......\n\nDisclaimer:  None of the above was researched anywhere on the web.  100% original Steve
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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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dogs and kangaroos are the same main species....animals.\n\nmicro vs macro.....God's design.\n\ncan you not read ???"\n\n***\nFemale circumcision is not barbaric. It is done for a reason, to keep the female pure. If only we adopted such practices here in the UK, then maybe women would be less inclined toward infidelity and therefore family values would still be an integral part of society. Family values instil a sense of discipline and respect, which we need as a counteraction against the modern trend of zero respect and zero discipline that is undermining the very fabric of our decaying society."\n\n***\n"What if I told you I tore the wings off of a fly. It probably wouldn't take a load off your conscience. However, according to Darwinian evolution man is no morally different than animals, such as flies. Would it really matter then if a man had his testicles torn up? Apparently not."\n\n***\n"They all should be taken out back and shot because in America we appreciate the fact that we live a life that the the whole world envy. Whoever doesn't stand for the pledge is not an American and is probably a homo, Muslim or related to Michael Moore. Fags"\n\n***\n"I'm no scientist but after reading the forum replies about no gravity being the cause, I believe the real cause could be that God rotated the planet sideways where the North And South Poles meet the equator - the hottest part of the area - making the polar ice regions melt huge amounts of frozen sea water. It's a shame Noah did not board the human-like ape, otherwise it would prove their existence some 7 million years ago."\n\n***\nMoses wasn't perfect. o_O He was a murderer. And I don't know, maybe rape wasn't a sin yet."\n\n***\n"whats wrong with useing hell fire and hate ful messages to preach the gospel of Christ? all that matters is that these people are saved and not taken into a satanic world of lies and deceit."\n\n***\n"You claim that God doesn't exist, therefore nothing you say is valid or credible....."\n\n***\n"[To a girl making a joke that she attends churches supporting gay marriage]\n\nI will expose all of you Barbara Streissand loving sinners."\n\n***\n"Once again, I would think a 22 year old to show more maturity and better debate skills. Only Christianity considers Christianity to be the One, True Religion because it IS. Give me excerpts from other books claiming themselves to be the one, true religion."\n\n***\n"Government intrusion in family affairs is a big problem.\n\nNot that I advocate abuse, but why can’t we smack the crap out of our kids anymore?"\n\n***\n"[Note: this guy is a right-wing fundie]\n\nRepublicans are Christian and to believe there is a seperation between Chruch and State is to believe that gravity exist."\n\n***\n"The angel Gabriel came to me in my dreams and told me that we live in a world of sin on this website..\n\nGabriel gave me a message from Him, the Almighty which stated that it is my duty to help you sinners on this forum find Him and convert before it's too late.."\n\n***\n"A man covered up to his neck in dung is clenaer than a woman who just took a shower but wears immodest clothing to church."\n\n***\n"Man can only think so many thoughts. All are found in the Bible."\n\n***\n"so gravity is like magnetism?? why doesnt the "Vaccum" of space suck out the magnetic properties??"\n\n***\n"Why in the hell do gays want to get married anyways? \n\nWhy can't they just fuck off and be happy they can live together and not get beaten like its the 1950s"\n\n***\n"You are wrong, people always like to blame God or Jesus for the bad things. In the other hand People tend like to worshiping devil.. because only devil can show them what is supernatural through magic or witchcrafts."\n\n***\n"BigChrisFilm, watch your fuckin
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First of all, I don't think you would appreciate me insulting whatever beliefs you hold dear, but you commit sacrilege  out of total ignorance, so you are excused. \n\nSecond of all, it would help you a great deal if you understood the Catholic position on evolution, which I doubt you have a clue. http://www.catholic.com/library/Adam_Eve_and_Evolution.asp\n\nIt seems evolutionists banter on about how religion is opposed to science, and faith and reason are incompatable, blah, blah, blah. Nothing could be further from the truth. \n\n"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.  Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.... We need each other to be what we must be, what we are called to be." (-Pope John Paul II)
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An odd question, but you may have a point; an example would be some of the 'scientists' who have associated themselves with young-earth creationism. One guy has a degree in paleontology and studied under Steven Jay Gould - he knows that creationism is a load of bunk, but ignores all the evidence for an ancient earth, because he wants to believe the bible. I can not comprehend this kind of double-think, and find it quite scary, but the logic seems to be, "There is so much evidence against what I wish to believe, so I must have lots of faith to continue believing - this makes me a good servant of god!"
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Its not evolution, that is for sure. The evolutionist idea of natural selection is flawed from the beginning. The idea that we evolved into this superior human who have to deal with feelings of emotion, need large amounts of food and water to survive, require a male and female to reproduce and the list goes on. If natural selection is true then humans would have stopped long before now when we didn't need so much food and water; when we could split ourselves because there was no gender and no one had to think about taking care of a child. A human child is one of the most dependent offspring. Without the care of parents the child would die. This does not seem to fit the the theory of natural selection. Genesis 1:27 explains it good.
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A belief in god and evolution is mainly a problem for closed-minded bible literalists...typically fundamentalists, who believe that every word in the bible is written as god intended.\n\nThe problem you face is this. If the bible isn't taken as a literal document of belief, how do you choose which bits to believe and which bits not to believe? So, is execution right or wrong...because the bible is both "for" and "against". Same for homosexuality (although not in modern terms).\n\nMost scientists I know who are christians accomodate this dilemma by using the bible as a broad belief framework - which is perfectly acceptable - and they talk about how they are able to draw their values from this position, but they keep an open mind about what science discovers and how science can help. \n\nBible literalists have a hard time trying to present their ideas without attacking science, as though science is some kind of enemy - the kind of enemy that will end up saving their lives from cancer or serious accident someday. The greatest disservice these people play in society is to present the idea to children that science is somehow seriously flawed and that nothing can ever be proven - unlike their belief system, however, which has a complete video record of god creating the earth in 6 days (sorry, that was sarcasm...something bible literalists will have a hard time understanding).\n\nTo Vangyblue below - that's the biggest pile of nonsense I've read for for at least 30 minutes. All the evidence of the failure of American education is present in your response.
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The line drawn in the sand has been made worse by the propaganda on evolution by those who DON'T believe that God made the world or even exists. ....and by some Chrisians who want to make the creation account in Genesis a doctrine of salvation.\n\nThese evolutionists who don't even want "intelligent design" mentioned as part of the world coming into being seem to have an anti-God agenda.  And they are using the law to try to have evolution taught as a "fact" and not a theory.    Trouble is, they don't agree with each other and have no proof of what they preach.  They believe in their form of evolution on the basis of their "faith" in their theory.   They are as soundly religious as the preachers who don't want  evolution mentioned .\n\nGod did create the world.  As I have been looking up passages, I am suprised at how many, many times in both the New and Old Testament the Bible  declares that God created the heavens and the earth. He seems to want all to know that it was HE who created all things.\nBut He does not explain how He created it.\n\nThat is my agreement with you.
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I believe in God.  I believe man wrote the Bible, and I agree with you that it is inaccurate.  That does not mean that God does not exist.  For the same reason, just because you do not accept part of it, does not mean you cannot accept God.
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Mother Christian. Father athiest.  They argued a lot over Adam and Eve VS Evolution.  My dad would win the arguments just because he was smarter.  I started out as an evolutionist, but I studied both sides of the issues and came to my own conclusion including evolution and scientific creationism.  I can argue with any evolutionist and either win or hold my ground now.  Never did have the discussion with my dad though because he left when I was 9.  He recently converted to Christianity and expects me to forget the abandonment.  I can't bring myself to act like nothing happened.\nSo did you have something you wanted to know? or just a poll?  You can email if there's something else you're after.
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It's interesting because I use the same thought process as you to arrive at a totally different conclusion.  For me it is like, God doesn't fit into my "nice neat little box" so he can't exist.  That might sound close-minded so I'll elaborate.  In my eyes, science is beginning to understand more and more of the world and our origins.  Now when I look at the overwhelming evidence of evolution and even just the happenings around me, I form a general understanding of the world that I am comfortable with.  Now when something enters my world view (God) I have to examine the evidence and tinker with the idea to see if it fits.  The problem with God is, I've seen no evidence and he just plain does not fit.  With science, no matter what your mindset, the evidence is right there for you to see regardless of your bias or what conclusions you draw from it.  Basically, if I saw real evidence of God, I could attempt to rearrange the rules and see if he fits, but I don't believe I should have to break the rules to even see evidence of him.  That makes it sound like the first step to becoming a Christian is to delude yourself.
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Yes. But not the contorted, twisted, taken out of context versions that were edited to fit someones personal desires. Somethings in the bible dont quite sound right, but when you understand it and read the whole story of whats going on it all makes sense. Its like zooming out from just a few threads to see the big beautiful quilt. Its all interlinked and beautifully orchestrated. Its hard to see the whole thing when you focus just on a couple threads here and there.\n\nFaith is essential for belief.\n\nI find it neccessary to rebuke this blisschameleon,"Evolution proves adam and eve wrong." Evolution is not proven. Also why are we not still evolving. The bible says God made each one according to its kind. \n\n"And our knowledge of other solar stystems proves that there isn't just one sun in the entire universe." God has one Son, Jesus Christ. He made light and darkness. Please direct me to the scripture where you claim it says "God made one sun, and one solar system."\n\n"Humans traveling to space proves the tower of Babalon wrong." The destruction of Babylon was not over how far from the Earth the Babylonians were making themselves. It was about their attitude. Their wanting to build the tower to make themselves equal to God. Certainly this would not make it so, but it had nothing to do with a tower.\n\n"Jesus' story having similarities to osirus and Hercules.God condoning slavery,racism,sexism,violence... revenge in some scriptures and disaproving them in other scriptures." God is the author of all things. My dear chameleon, you have failed to grasp the concept. God does not condone these things. He allows us to make decisions which results in our sin. You have failed to understand what is going on in the Bible. You are so far from the truth. Sexism????!!! Come on, did you even read the Bible? Women are to be submissive to their husbands, yes. But there is even greater responsibility from the husbands to the wives. And I am not sure you understand the sort of submission God is conveying here.
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simple: humans didn't evolve from monkeys!!! :D yeah, I believe in creation too-- and the God who made it.