In Darwin We Trust

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Don't know if this has been posted yet. Seperating the wheat from the chaff, indeed!
The irony is that as this “Evolution Sunday” program was being ramped up, the world's leading evolutionist, atheist Dr. Richard Dawkins from Oxford University, hosted a television program broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK (and to eventually air around the world) that stated the very opposite message!
2Pe 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2Pe 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2Pe 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
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1Ti 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
1Ti 6:21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
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Here is the link to the "clergy letter project" for anyone interested.
Within the community of Christian believers there are areas of dispute and disagreement, including the proper way to interpret Holy Scripture. While virtually all Christians take the Bible seriously and hold it to be authoritative in matters of faith and practice, the overwhelming majority do not read the Bible literally, as they would a science textbook. Many of the beloved stories found in the Bible — the Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah and the ark — convey timeless truths about God, human beings, and the proper relationship between Creator and creation expressed in the only form capable of transmitting these truths from generation to generation. Religious truth is of a different order from scientific truth. Its purpose is not to convey scientific information but to transform hearts.

We the undersigned, Christian clergy from many different traditions, believe that the timeless truths of the Bible and the discoveries of modern science may comfortably coexist. We believe that the theory of evolution is a foundational scientific truth, one that has stood up to rigorous scrutiny and upon which much of human knowledge and achievement rests. To reject this truth or to treat it as “one theory among others” is to deliberately embrace scientific ignorance and transmit such ignorance to our children. We believe that among God's good gifts are human minds capable of critical thought and that the failure to fully employ this gift is a rejection of the will of our Creator. To argue that God's loving plan of salvation for humanity precludes the full employment of the God-given faculty of reason is to attempt to limit God, an act of hubris. We urge school board members to preserve the integrity of the science curriculum by affirming the teaching of the theory of evolution as a core component of human knowledge. We ask that science remain science and that religion remain religion, two very different, but complementary, forms of truth.
No wonder the believers won't be missed after the rapture... :?
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1Ti 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
1Ti 6:21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
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IRQ Conflict wrote concerning the "clergy letter project":

[No wonder the believers won't be missed after the rapture... ]

I can't for the life of me understand how in the opening statement of the second paragraph they can say with straight faces "We the undersigned, Christian clergy..." They are NOT Christians! The definition of a Christian is:
"one who professes belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ" (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) Jesus taught us to BELIEVE what God says is true! Scripture can in no way get comfy with evolution, God teaches creation. You can't compromise God's Word having 1 foot on each side of a canyon honey, you're gonna fall into the quagmire (an entrapping position) below. These anti-Christians are out to suck people in, pathetically, it's actually dong that to some!

Miss us when we're raptured? LOL I don't think so! This will give them free reign to spread their lies and no voice to come against them!

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[...yea,let God be true, but every man a liar;... Rom 3:4]
Paraphrase: If man says something that contradicts God's Word, man's a liar!!! :wink:
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Post by 4him123 »

well said shortcake :D
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