Evidence for God from Science

Which model do you accept? What does that have to do with the discussion? My personal position has absolutely nothing to do with this. Nor does Rich's, anyone's on this discussion board's, Hugh Ross', Ken Hamm's, or even your own. The point was that you attacked my statement that the Cambrian explo...

Jac, I take it that you are quite interested in the "Cambrian Explosion". What's interesting to me is that the Cambrian explosion fits in perfectly with the Genesis account of creation Oh, I see. Subject to literary interpretation, surely? If you mean "day-age" interpretation, t...

Hi Jac. Sorry about that, my reference was from here: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cambrian/camb.html I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that the explosion lasted for the whole Cambrian period. Although, I do not think that PBS agrees (with reasons.org) as it states 30 million years as the time range. In ...

On the flip side, the soul (we really should say "spirit" if we want to be technical) isn't going to be a complex organism at all. Actually, to be technical I think "soul" is more appropriate, as many do not consider "soul" to be synonymous for "spirit." I my...

James wrote:must actually mean 53 million years

Reference?

These aren't the numbers I am thinking--try less than 10 million, and maybe less than 3 million. In case you don't check the footnotes on that article. PBS agrees

I don't see why a clone wouldn't have a soul . . . cloning, at least today, basically works through extremely fast development. You still have to go through the growth process. The body may be a replication, but why must the soul be? Again, we have to differentiate, I think, between the complex natu...

A couple of things: First, we should never "heroize" the characterize the biblical characters. Too often we read their actions as prescriptive rather than descriptive. Peter clearly needed correcting. That's the point of the text. The method of correction shouldn't be derived from the way ...

The problem, MM, is what you mean by "connected" souls. Connected bodies are pretty easy, because a body is a complex organism. It's easy to see how two complex organisms can share some of the same components. On the flip side, the soul (we really should say "spirit" if we want t...

There is soooo much I want to reply to, but the past few weeks have been so very, very hectic :( Anyway, I'm at work, so I don't have any time to comment now, but I just wanted to note that the more I think about this, the more I'm sold on (2). I think it just explains a lot of things in a lot of wa...

I've actually been avoiding any and all TV evangelists the past few days exactly because of this. I just know there are people out there saying, "THIS IS JUDGEMENT FROM GOD! REPENT!!!" And I'm waiting on them to use this as evidence that we are in the last days, because there will be great...

I've considered locking this thread a few times for two reasons: 1) neither side has said anything different for the past few pages--we're just going around and around in circles, and 2) comments are getting too personal. The only reason I haven't is that some new people may want to sift through all...

Good question . . . First, let me refer you to this article . It's a long read, but a great one. It covers seventeen reasons that Christianity should have never even gotten off the ground. I'd also recommend you pick up Lee Strobel's book, The Case for Christ . He has a chapter that deals with this ...

I'd say that I agree that in Adam's case, creationism applies. You'd almost have to, unless you were a theistic evolutionist. Like I said, I only adopted the position about a month ago or so (the objection I mentioned was really forceful in my mind!) . . . it's always possible to change again. Like ...

http://www.godandscience.org/youngearth/appearance.html Just thought you guys might be interested in Rich's article concerning the appearance of age argument. He might be a little harsh in his language, but I think his points stand pretty well. That said, I've not studied the arguments than man and ...

I actually held that position, MM, until about a month ago. There are basically three positions on it. 1) Creationism: God gives each person a soul at some time during development (probably conception) 2) Traducianism: The soul is transmitted along with the body through the process of natural genera...