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by David Blacklock
Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:14 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Ben Stein - Expelled movie
Replies: 128
Views: 37346

Re: Ben Stein - Expelled movie

Hi Gman, Thanx for your reply. >>Possibly.. But then that is really side stepping the issue to say that sometime in the future we will have it all figured out. What if we didn't?<< Trying to figure things out is not side-stepping anything. It is what scientists do. They never figure they will have i...
by David Blacklock
Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:30 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Newsweek Article "Will Physicists Find God?"
Replies: 11
Views: 3619

Re: Newsweek Article "Will Physicists Find God?"

Hi Silvertusk, Not a physicist, but will attempt an answer to your comment, "Well they are turning the accelerator on next month. If we are not all sucked into a black hole, are there any physicists on here that can explain what exactly is the point of all this and how it might affect Christian...
by David Blacklock
Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:12 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: abiogenesis
Replies: 18
Views: 5018

Re: abiogenesis

Hi Push, Search as you may, you will not find evidence for a soul that passes scientific scrutiny - not even 21 grams worth. Nor will you find any evidence for God - but that's not the point. God is a matter of faith. As far as letting scientific findings effect your faith, it doesn't have to. Nor s...
by David Blacklock
Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:09 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Ben Stein - Expelled movie
Replies: 128
Views: 37346

Re: Ben Stein - Expelled movie

Hi, anybody that wants to listen. I posted this on a less appropriate thread and decided to post it here also: Although the lack of supervisory design is a key feature of evolution, I prefer to believe the system was set up by and monitored by God. Unfortunately, the ID people have a much broader ag...
by David Blacklock
Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:06 am
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Evolution explains something yet again!
Replies: 31
Views: 7391

Re: Evolution explains something yet again!

Hi, anybody that wants to listen, Although the lack of supervisory design is a key feature of evolution, I prefer to believe the system was set up by and monitored by God. Unfortunately, the ID people have a much broader agenda than the words "intelligent design" might suggest. What they a...
by David Blacklock
Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:49 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Evolution observed in bacteria?
Replies: 75
Views: 17127

Re: Evolution observed in bacteria?

Hi Kurieuo, Thanx for your thoughtful reply. In answer to >>is there even one example where a hox gene mutation resulted in something really new and beneficial? I don't recall coming across any such examples, but would be interested in them<< The hox genes, being core genes, are unlikely to change. ...
by David Blacklock
Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:29 am
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Evolution observed in bacteria?
Replies: 75
Views: 17127

Re: Evolution observed in bacteria?

I don't have time now to answer much of this now, although I will try later. I might just add a statistic, though, to spark some interest. A recent study showed that 92% of people who were skeptical about evolution, after having had a legitimate college course in evolution, changed their minds. IOW,...
by David Blacklock
Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:21 am
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Evolution observed in bacteria?
Replies: 75
Views: 17127

Re: Evolution observed in bacteria?

Hi Kureiuo, I have to differ with you on the massive amounts of mutational changes necessary for a large change to occur. There have been major advancements in our understanding of evolution over the past twenty years. For example: Scientists expected a lot more human genes than 22,500 - that's not ...
by David Blacklock
Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:42 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Evolution explains something yet again!
Replies: 31
Views: 7391

Re: Evolution explains something yet again!

Hi Zoegirl, Evolutionary psychology has lots of appeal. If we evolved in physical ways, why not social. However, although the physical evidence for evolution is (to me) overwhelming, EP appears just as overwhelmingly speculative. Convincing, but speculative. Unlike physical evolution, no reliable tr...
by David Blacklock
Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:00 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Evolution explains something yet again!
Replies: 31
Views: 7391

Re: Evolution explains something yet again!

For those who don't like paleontological fossils, there are always molecular fossils from DNA: Most mammals can make vitamin C, including most primates - except humans, gorillas, and chimps, who need it in their diets. It takes five enzymes to make vitamin C, but humans, gorillas and chimps only hav...
by David Blacklock
Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:43 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Confusion
Replies: 7
Views: 2388

Re: Confusion

You should be just as tolerant with this guy as you would with someone who had a speech impediment. It appears that homosexuality has strong genetic causes, as well as environmental.

DB
by David Blacklock
Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:33 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Evolution observed in bacteria?
Replies: 75
Views: 17127

Re: Evolution observed in bacteria?

Whoever said the species thing was overrated was right. A certain gull that lives in England can't or won't interbreed with a somewhat similar gull that shares its geography. If you circled the globe observing this gull - going west and staying on latitude - the gull starts to change. From England t...
by David Blacklock
Tue May 13, 2008 7:23 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Evidence for a Young Sun
Replies: 58
Views: 16408

Re: Evidence for a Young Sun

Good post, Hman - you said it better than I did.

:clap:
by David Blacklock
Mon May 12, 2008 7:30 am
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Evidence for a Young Sun
Replies: 58
Views: 16408

Re: Evidence for a Young Sun

Hi M&M, I read your contribution and agree it's hard to understand. About the 3 proofs offered: 1. These guys disagree with your guru about helioseismic dating: "The age of the sun can be inferred with helioseismic studies. This method provides verification of the age of the solar system ga...
by David Blacklock
Thu May 08, 2008 9:21 pm
Forum: God and Science
Topic: Mount Everest and the Age of the earth
Replies: 49
Views: 11068

Re: Mount Everest and the Age of the earth

Hi NC2, It appears to me you may have limited your investigations to literature that is put out by a YEC organization. I suggest you peruse an introductory geology text (or evolution, paleontology, etc.) and see what you find. You might be impressed with the intensity of the scientific investigation...