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Could God Have Used Evolution?

Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by Revmitchell, Sep 15, 2008.

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  1. Thinkingstuff

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    The dig around Jericho does not show that the walls came down in the matter the bible describes.

    Carbon dating has its down side but it has been proven more than not.

    I heard the foot print thing before but it is an assumption that it happened at the same time. and there is the point that it maybe a urban myth

    Blind belief is not a good thing. Just ask people in Wako.

    Evolution is a theory based on observation. Not on ancient assumptions like the bible.
     
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    Speaking of the flood. Do you not believe the Genesis account that Noah was to take into the ark one pair of the unclean animals and seven pairs of the clean? Not sure whether or not dinosaurs were clean but there would have been at least one pair on the ark. So, since God's intent was for all the animals that came out of the ark to be fruitful and increase on the Earth, where are the descendants of the dinosaurs that came out of the ark? Not to mention the prehistoric giant scorpions and trilobites and mastodons and sabretooth cats? The ark would have to have been a lot larger than it is decribed if it held at least two of all the different kinds of truly huge prehistoric animals.
     
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    So it would have been less of a miracle if Jesus made water into grape juice? I don't think so. Besides it's not like God was doing a whole bunch of creating brand new things with age after Creation. Did he?

    What if some of these animals were already extinct?? Could have definitely happened.
     
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    forcing the bible a bit are we?
     
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    Ask Him.


    Well, who's to know? And since we have seen fossils from after the flood period (it happens even without the flood), we know that they could have been created before during and after the flood.

    Nah. I do think that your position ignores it though.
     
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    Well, the ground was cursed because of Adam's sin so food was difficult to come by (maybe a reason for so much violence. After all according to the book of Enoch -Jewish apocalyptic literature the nephalim killed and ate people). Could be they starved. Just to take the otherside for a moment.
     
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    That last bit was me. Not Ibaker. No it doesn't. If the genesis account is to be taken as an outline rather than literal.
     
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    Aside from the fact that scripture says man was made from the dust of the ground ( which is irrelevant to what I am saying) evolution is contrary to scripture as I have shown regardless of how unclear the process is to you. Evolution is not a possibility because Jesus said man was made "in the beginning".
     
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    There has been at no time where evolution was observed.
     
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    Why would I not believe the Genesis account of the flood? Have I not been affirming that the Bible is God's infallible Word?

    Concerning your other questions, obviously many of the kinds of dinos went extinct over the last 4700 years. Why is that such a big mystery? lol

    RB
     
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    If it is an outline, how can there be plants without the sun?
     
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    What are you talking about?

    do you know how the outline works?
     
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    Did someone on the board say that darwinian evolution doesn't lead to atheism?

    You ought to be ashamed of speaking of God's holy Word in the manner you just did thinkingstuff.
     
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    If you understand evolution is that we developed from a simple organism "in the begining" and if God's hand was in it then it hold that "in the begining" God made man.
     
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    The great princeton theologian BB Warfield was a theistic evolutionist, and a good calvinist. :thumbs:
     
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    You know I'm doing it for the case of the argument not because I believe it. This is how an evolutionist (probably and athiestic one at that) may respond. I personally reverance the bible.
     
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    Prove it.

    :jesus:
     
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