Why you should think that the Natural-Evolution of species is true

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Evolution/plate tectonics/nuclear fusion/planetary acretion/photosynthesis is an illusion and could not be utilized to bring living beings into existence.
The list is a LOT longer than I have noted. It includes EVERY aspect of the natural world which is required for our existence. And they must all be myths according you you. Perpetuated by those pesky science-loving atheists! Because God doesn’t need to use any of them.

A serious question…it is NOT rhetorical: Why do you think He used all these other processes yet chose not to use the one?
 
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rossum:
I beg to differ.
I’m actually a society certified smart guy in a field of applied science with the honourific and designatory letters that go with it. I may come across as arrogant at times, because in real life my opinion, obviously not about these matters but stuff that is practical, has monetary value. Just trying to impart some wisdom before I can’t any more. Take it, or as you have chosen to do, leave it.
Which applied science?
 
they must all be myths according you
Not necessarily, although the popularized notions of the actual scientific data usually are. This is most likely a misunderstanding of my position rather than a strawman argument.
Why do you think He used all these other processes yet chose not to use the one?
The complexity of living beings did not arise randomly from the intrinsic properties of matter, nor is the diversity observed in nature merely the result of the utilitarian concept of survival of the fittest, the fittingest, or what have you. God created light and proceeded to bring into existence matter, time and space; He created living organisms from those basic substances, beginning with single cell creatures. The information that comprises a cell was utilized in bringing into existence whole organisms, comprised of cells, specialized and organized into tissues, as part of organ systems, which are all united as one being which exists in relation to its environment, incoporating what is other to itself into its own body, Growth and reproduction are aspects of the nature of all living things, qualities they possess and reflect the relationship with what is around them, that are not present in matter itself. Animals are characterized as distinct from plants in that they have instinctive perceptions, feelings and behaviours.We, as distinct from animals can know and act with a free will, thereby allowing us to love and thereby connect with transcendent Reality.

The person is material; what atoms do is organized in accordance with our psychology, many features of which are shared with animals, and ultimately our spirit, which makes us one being who can observe, feel, and act. Humankind was brought into existence in one first man, who committed the original sin and thereby brought this journey through time into existence. It’s going to get too confusing at this point.

TLDNR - Evolution is an illusion, it’s all about creation. You have decided against doing so, but if one puts God at the core of reality, a totally different picture arises than that which sees the laws of physics, the world as the fundamental eternal reality. It’s not dissimilar to the impression that the sun revolves around the earth.
 
We all need our privacy, sorry.
That fact is that you find no value in what I say.
So the information would serve no purpose.
Arguments either make sense or they don’t.
 
We all need our privacy, sorry.
That fact is that you find no value in what I say.
So the information would serve no purpose.
Arguments either make sense or they don’t.
You are using what you say are your qualifications to give weight to what you say. It’s only reasonable to ask in what field those qualifications are held. If arguments make sense whatever your background then it seems pointless in mentioning them.
 
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they must all be myths according you
Not necessarily, although the popularized notions of the actual scientific data usually are. This is most likely a misunderstanding of my position rather than a strawman argument.
Nah. Your position is completely understood. It takes quite some time to sort wheat from chaff but it’s clear enough.
 
You are using what you say are your qualifications to give weight to what you say. It’s only reasonable to ask in what field those qualifications are held. If arguments make sense whatever your background then it seems pointless in mentioning them.
Why do you do that?
The genetic disordered crayfish you keep bringing up may be called a different species but it remains a crustacean, another type of crayfish
Just as when humans descended from our ape-like ancestors we remained mammals. If you are going to discuss evolution then you need to learn how to correctly understand the levels of the nested hierarchy of life. To confuse a subphylum like crustacea with a single species is a gross error.
This is the myth we have all ben taught.
What myth? That you cannot tell the difference between a single species and a whole clade?
I do know what to write in order to ace a modern biology exam. I don’t believe it.
I beg to differ.
I’m actually a society certified smart guy in a field of applied science
Which applied science?
That fact is that you find no value in what I say.
So the information would serve no purpose.
Arguments either make sense or they don’t.
Lot’s of typos, I must say.
 
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Science has nothing to say about Supernatural events. That is, and will remain, the issue.
 
Science has nothing to say about Supernatural events. That is, and will remain, the issue.
Science can say something when those supernatural events have an effect in the material world. Science can observe that a sea is parted. It may not be able to explain why or how, but it can observe and measure the parting.

For a more recent and practical example see Benson et al (2006) Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer. If prayer has a material effect, then that effect can be measured by science.

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Aloysium:
Evolution/plate tectonics/nuclear fusion/planetary acretion/photosynthesis is an illusion and could not be utilized to bring living beings into existence.
The list is a LOT longer than I have noted. It includes EVERY aspect of the natural world which is required for our existence. And they must all be myths according you you. Perpetuated by those pesky science-loving atheists! Because God doesn’t need to use any of them.

A serious question…it is NOT rhetorical: Why do you think He used all these other processes yet chose not to use the one?
How utterly dishonest, substituting my words with yours! It’s a pity the quote feature allows for such nonsense.

The science is not an illusion, the myth of evolution is. The problem is that people cannot see what is true, enthralled as they are with the story in which it is cast.
 
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I’m not enthralled. I simply accepted what my science teacher told me. Later, mostly from posts here, it became clear that there were problems with this theory.
 
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Genesis says he used clay to create Man. Why isn’t God “better than that?” He shouldn’t have to use clay.
Clay contains every mineral the human body needs. It is a pretty neat finding.
What? God couldn’t make the minerals necessary for Man out of nothing? He had to use clay?

One answer: No, but He chose to use clay.
Another answer: He chose to use evolution.
 
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Wozza:
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Aloysium:
Evolution/plate tectonics/nuclear fusion/planetary acretion/photosynthesis is an illusion and could not be utilized to bring living beings into existence.
The list is a LOT longer than I have noted. It includes EVERY aspect of the natural world which is required for our existence. And they must all be myths according you you. Perpetuated by those pesky science-loving atheists! Because God doesn’t need to use any of them.

A serious question…it is NOT rhetorical: Why do you think He used all these other processes yet chose not to use the one?
How utterly dishonest, substituting my words with yours! It’s a pity the quote feature allows for such nonsense.

The science is not an illusion, the myth of evolution is. The problem is that people cannot see what is true, enthralled as they are with the story in which it is cast.
Don’t give me that. One aspect of science is just as valid as another. The same arguments we have been getting ad nauseum against evolution could equally be made against countless other scientific processes. But you demand that we must accept than Man is somehow different from the rest of existence.

And do you know what? No-one is arguing with you. Not one person here has said that Man is just an accidental result of blind chance. Which is what you and all your chums would have everyone believe that argument to be.

I will guarantee something now. That if mankind was somehow exempted by science from the process of evolution then you guys would have ZERO problem with it. All the nonsensical claims and farcical statements about if not being genuine science would simply dissapear. It would be accepted just as all other scientific processes are. Such as planetary acretion and plate tectonics. THAT is why they were added to your statement.

But as soon as man is brought into the picture, that fact itself is not rejected. It is the whole scientific theory. You not only throw the water out. You throw the baby out as well and then try to heave the whole bath with it. Which shows the paucity of your arguments. It isn’t about the science - which needs no-one to defend it. It’s about your refusal to accept that God works in mysterious ways that don’t align with your personal viewpoint.

It’s all smoke and mirrors. ‘Look, this is where our argument lies’. When the true position is one of fundamental beliefs and literal interpretations of scripture.
 
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The list is a LOT longer than I have noted. It includes EVERY aspect of the natural world which is required for our existence. And they must all be myths according you you. Perpetuated by those pesky science-loving atheists! Because God doesn’t need to use any of them.
A counter argument to what your claiming here is that human artifacts made and designed by intelligent humans from materials nature provides whether they be simple such as a hammer or more complex such as a house, a watch, a computer, a car, or an airplane do not assemble themselves together by themselves. Accordingly, why should we think that the highly complex entire world of nature assembled itself together by itself? The processes of nature have limits, they cannot even make a hammer much less build a house. I think it is rather ironic that the theory that all the natural creatures of the world whether animate or inanimate assembled themselves together by natural processes of nature when at the same time the very sophisticated instruments that scientists use to study the highly complex world of nature and its processes are designed and assembled together by intelligent human beings.
 
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We called them crawdads in Texas. Brought the critters back from LA in the trunks of our cars in coolers. Threw them into the kid’s swimming pool and told the kids to take out the floaters (we’re not scavengers, y’all). Wives would bring the brine pots to a boil, tossed in the survivors, wait for the critters to sing their last and, then, dig in. Never checked those critters for their sexual preferences; probably ate a few asexual ones over the years. Dang! If only I’d checked. I’d a got that new specie award thing instead of the German fella.
 
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