Vatican evolution congress to exclude creationism, intelligent design

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You avoided answering my question. According to Nature magazine, most leading scientists reject God. I doubt what an individual nun may write would make them inclined to change their minds.

And based on my own observations of what passes for popular culture in America, nuns are generally not quoted by the media, except on those rare instances when one of them conforms to their view.

Peace,
Ed
 
edwest2 said:
You avoided answering my question. According to Nature magazine, most leading scientists reject God. I doubt what an individual nun may write would make them inclined to change their minds. Peace,Ed
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What was your question?
 
Wirraway said:
just for the record, I believe ye arke existed. it was powered by marine diesels. but it existed. so you and I are against those ye arke deniers.
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Wirraway, if I am in Rome for the big conference in March, and should the question of the Ark’s historicity be broached, is there anything you’d like me to ask the pope about it? (I probably won’t bring up marine diesel engines.) Of course, since there will be hundreds of us there, the chances of getting a private word with His Holiness will be slim, unless there is a happy hour. From the schedule, participants will be in wall-to-wall sessions.

StAnastasia
 
StAnastasia said:
Wirraway, if I am in Rome for the big conference in March, and should the question of the Ark’s historicity be broached, is there anything you’d like me to ask the pope about it? (I probably won’t bring up marine diesel engines.) Of course, since there will be hundreds of us there, the chances of getting a private word with His Holiness will be slim, unless there is a happy hour. From the schedule, participants will be in wall-to-wall sessions.

StAnastasia
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well, one question and a request.

ask his holiness to pray for us, that we may have insight and charity towards others in discussing ye arke.

and, remind him that USC owns Notre Dame.
 
Wirraway said:
well, one question and a request.

ask his holiness to pray for us, that we may have insight and charity towards others in discussing ye arke.

and, remind him that USC owns Notre Dame.
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Does Pope Benedict believe in a literal flood and ark? I haven’t read, but if he’s a good biblical scholar he may not.
 
Wirraway said:
just for the record, I believe ye arke existed. it was powered by marine diesels. but it existed. so you and I are against those ye arke deniers.
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Perhaps Noah harnessed many bacterial flagella propellers spinning at 100000rpm to power his boat.🙂
 
buffalo said:
Perhaps Noah harnessed many bacterial flagella propellers spinning at 100000rpm to power his boat.🙂
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I was always told in school that Bacteria were very “simple” early products of evolution, how do they get something to spin at 100,000 rpm?

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Wirraway said:
not enough torque.
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Wirraway, the Ark only had to maintain enough speed to pass over the submerged continents, dropping off the marsupials in Australia, the North and South American fauna, the penguins in Australia, and the African fauna.

StAnastasia
 
StAnastasia said:
Wirraway, the Ark only had to maintain enough speed to pass over the submerged continents, dropping off the marsupials in Australia, the North and South American fauna, the penguins in Australia, and the African fauna.

StAnastasia
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could ye arke have been a catamaran?
 
Wirraway said:
I don’t think it works that way. what are your objections to five mast schooner rig?
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Nothing - I think I posted this before.

a nine master -

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The Flood

Geology overwhelmingly supports the historicity of the global Flood. Sediments were rapidly deposited, forming most of the fossil-bearing rock layers.
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edwest2 said:
Shows that these people did not say what they said? Including Time magazine? Give me a break.
Peace,
Ed
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That’s right. The point was that respected, mainstream evolutionists said those things. With respect, I wouldn’t put Sister Ilia Delio in that league. Beyond that, she’s in conflict with evolutionists themselves (as StAnastasia is apparently).

So the problem isn’t with creationists in this case, but with mainstream evolutionary theorists. In this case, evolutionists are divided among themselves with the majority claiming that evolution is incompatible with the belief that God guided nature and a small minority opposing that.
 
reggieM said:
That’s right. The point was that respected, mainstream evolutionists said those things. With respect, I wouldn’t put Sister Ilia Delio in that league. Beyond that, she’s in conflict with evolutionists themselves (as StAnastasia is apparently).
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How are Sister Delio and I in conflict with “evolutionists”? I have spoken openly, in both the classroom and the sanctuary, of my acceptance of evolution as the most comprehensive, logical, and elegant explanation of terrestrial biodiversity.

Prayerfully yours,
StAnastasia
 
Is there a single fossil that can be unambiguously classified as transitional?

At one time, the Okapi was thought to be an extinct relative of the horse, until they were found alive. Some plants, long thought extinct, have also been found alive. Insects in amber, though supposedly millions of years old, are remarkably similar, and no doubt were just as functional, as their ‘modern’ counterparts.

Aparently, all the transitional types known to man are still with us, from viruses to bacteria to fish to amphibians to land-dwelling animals to apes. To say that a common seal that can walk on its flippers is transitional is simply imposing a worldview.

To say that all life on earth has to live under the same atmosphere and under the same gravity is unambiguously true. All sea life has to be able to deal with the composition of ocean water, which man cannot drink.

I contend that all DNA coding for similar body plans will be similar. Look at an ape skeleton and a human skeleton. The notion of common descent may have less to do with random mutation causing gross morphological changes over time as opposed to all creatures were designed to live and function in the same planetary conditions, and have some measure of built-in variability.

Peace,
Ed
 
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