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|  callie Registered Member
 Date Joined Jul 2007 Total Posts : 10 | Posted 7/5/2007 2:03 PM (GMT -6) |   | | Ok, well for starters, the reason I post this question here is because I am hoping that, judging by my positive experience here so far, it will be met with genuine open conversation.
Now, myself:
I wouldn't exactly say that I'm a scientist  and can refute either or for any purpose.
I will say I'm in the exploring phase and am not upset by the thought of evolution because, eh, it may explain how but not the why.
And also, it does not explain life after death and at this point in my life I doubt that I am going to be dissuaded from that belief.
So, I am curious what are your thoughts on the matter?
I know that RC have no issue with evolution, but I believe that they take the Intelligent Design position. I.e. perhaps evolution was used, but there was a Designer (is might be a better word).
Evangelical's I believe take the position of macro evolution but not micro evolution.
Now, I DO realize I just lumped a bunch of people into two different categories.
What I am wondering is, what are your various thoughts on the topic.
And this might turn out to be fairly boring, as I'm not likely to say "yeah, but what about etc etc etc". I just am looking for some different thoughts on the matter.
cheers
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  |  Starkman Registered Member

Date Joined Oct 2001 Total Posts : 1747 | Posted 7/5/2007 4:14 PM (GMT -6) |   | It would make no difference to me if evolution, or some micro form of it were true. Evolution does not disprove God. If anything, I can't help wonder how it is that atheist evolutionists cannot see the absolutely phenominal, clear cut and quite-evident signs of design in something as stimple as the human eye. (Wait, that's not so simple! Hmm, let's see...what's simple here? NOTHING!)
As humans, most of us operate, for the most part, at a pretty basic level in life. No one's going around demanding exact reconciliation of all accounts in everything they experience in life on a day-to-day basis. So, no matter how many holes one tries to rip open in, say, the life of christ (i.e., did He really exist, did He resurrect, was He really crucified, are His children ready to take the throne in Austria, or Spain, etc., yada, yada, yada), the plain-jane, simple, here-it-is-folks, to-the-point, over-all presentation of history, as it's been handled down to us, is that He lived, died, resurrect, proved Himself to be not only the Son of God but the One who rules and reigns today and forever more. That settles it for me.
Evolution? Don't really care, to tell you the truth. We'll talk more about it when Jesus puts this world to right!
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 |  callie Registered Member
 Date Joined Jul 2007 Total Posts : 10 | Posted 7/5/2007 4:54 PM (GMT -6) |   |
Corey said...
My story is that I was raised in a fundamentalist home and was adamantly a "young-earth" creationist into my first couple years of college. Even took my astronomy professor aside one time to set him straight. I can't hardly recognize that person I was anymore. From there transitioned to an "old-earth" creationist, and now, in the last couple years, even the last couple months, am increasingly comfortable to call myself a theistic evolutionist.
I need to get those straight a bit better. Young earth - old earth - eek.
That's a good term: theistic evolutionist.
Took your professer aside to set him straight huh?
Lol, that must have been interesting!
Starkman said...
It would make no difference to me if evolution, or some micro form of it were true. Evolution does not disprove God. If anything, I can't help wonder how it is that atheist evolutionists cannot see the absolutely phenominal, clear cut and quite-evident signs of design in something as stimple as the human eye. (Wait, that's not so simple! Hmm, let's see...what's simple here? NOTHING!)
As humans, most of us operate, for the most part, at a pretty basic level in life. No one's going around demanding exact reconciliation of all accounts in everything they experience in life on a day-to-day basis. So, no matter how many holes one tries to rip open in, say, the life of christ (i.e., did He really exist, did He resurrect, was He really crucified, are His children ready to take the throne in Austria, or Spain, etc., yada, yada, yada), the plain-jane, simple, here-it-is-folks, to-the-point, over-all presentation of history, as it's been handled down to us, is that He lived, died, resurrect, proved Himself to be not only the Son of God but the One who rules and reigns today and forever more. That settles it for me.
Evolution? Don't really care, to tell you the truth. We'll talk more about it when Jesus puts this world to right!
I think you make a very good point right there in the beginning. To Me, I would think a person should be able to see the precision, the beauty right down to the very mathematics of the Universe! But that's me.
Yeah, to me, evolution might say this is how it was done, but in the overall scheme, how important is it?
intersting thoughts
thank you for sharing!
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