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Thread #155384   Message #3663555
Posted By: Lighter
25-Sep-14 - 08:06 AM
Thread Name: BS: Special thread on Evolution & religion
Subject: RE: BS: Special thread on Evolution & religion
> God did not invent your computer, iPad or paracetamol

Well, in a sense he could have, if everything that happens is a furtherance of his Plan.

But in that case, there's no reason to deny Evolution. It's how God advances living things toward his goal.

Besides, Evolution is irrefutable because its simply describes (though some precise details are still elusive) what happens to organisms stressed by their habitat and by other organisms. Dinosaurs can't adapt, they're gone. Crocodiles can, and they're still with us.

Dinosaur mutations, and environmental opportunities, lead step by step to birds.

Every internal and external change leads to consequences, and over a billion years pressures and mutations take you from amebas to humans.

I'm no biologist, but even I can comprehend these things.

Of course, you can believe in Noah's Ark instead by substituting blind faith for all the evidence of observation and reason. Just don't expect the rest of us to buy into it. Further discussion is obviously futile, as Pete seems to see himself as an instrument of conversion - not, of course, to mainstream Christianity, which accepts Evolution, but to his own literalist and sectarian take on it.