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In reply to the discussion: Evolution-Accepting Christian Professor: Bible Doesn’t Have to Conflict with Scientific Realities [View all]Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)77. To take those in order
Firstly, we know that our perception of time speeds up as we get older. That's proven and that's over a comparatively short human lifespan. How quickly, therefore, must a being as old as the universe experience time?
You seem to know how God experiences time.
Know? No. I don't speak to god, I worship the other guy.
Do you think he guided evolution to create humans
Define "guided". If you mean, did he tinker with evolution in process (presumably adjusting a genome here and there) to create humans, then I doubt it. Did he know what the outcomes would be before the process started? Possibly. I don't believe that god is all-knowing but, presuming he exists, he must know a great deal, possibly enough to reliably predict what course evolution would take in response to stimuli. I may not be explaining that well. What I mean is that, when one knows, fully and truly groks, all circumstances surrounding an event, that event becomes, to a great degree, predictable.
Why so many restarts in evolution? Did he make mistakes?
Dude, I worship the devil. Of course god makes mistakes.
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rug
Jan 2015
OP
I find it problematic because it continues to insert a guiding hand into a process
cbayer
Jan 2015
#16
I'm asking you to cite your evidence that the evolutionary process cannot be chaotic.
Jim__
Jun 2015
#102
Geez, AtheistCrusader, I so wish you would participate in the discourse here beyond simple dismissal
pinto
Jan 2015
#8
I'm not sure there is a finite amount of what can be known, but that's a different subject.
cbayer
Jan 2015
#26
Por nada - the discussion is one that I really enjoy listening to so it was no burden.
eomer
Jan 2015
#92
BTW, that's apparently not the interview where he said this. It was to Bill Moyers.
cbayer
Jan 2015
#45
I think when you took his quote out of context, you presented it as his thoughts.
cbayer
Jan 2015
#37
There isn't any reason why the two can not continue to exists, if you don't believe then it is your
Thinkingabout
Jan 2015
#29
Ok folks, now for something completely different - Randomness and Mathematical Proof (Sci Amer)
pinto
Jan 2015
#58
Did you read any of the discussions in this thread? Or just choose a drive by post?
pinto
Jan 2015
#60
By his own admission: The belief in question is whatever the believer wants it to be.
DetlefK
Jan 2015
#62
I think that science teachers in these schools were liberal thinkers who realized that it did not
jwirr
Jan 2015
#66
Layer of ridiculous voodoo horseshit along with a dose of science-acceptance.
Warren Stupidity
Jun 2015
#96
The God of the gaps. It slices, it dices, it postpones the age of reason yet again!
AtheistCrusader
Jun 2015
#100
How did he as a scientist come to the conclusion that God belongs into this theory?
DetlefK
Jun 2015
#101
I grew up accepting both, and as such, never took the Bible literally...
Humanist_Activist
Jun 2015
#110