15 questions evolutionists cannot adequately answer

I think I have. I mean I accept evolution to an extent, which isn't the "Adam and Eve" concept. I've questioned the age of the earth and universe as well. You aren't seeing this?

 

How can you believe anything in the bible then? That doesn't make any sense to me. It would be like me reading a science journal, discovering numerous and significant errors, and then choosing to believe it anyways on faith, despite all evidence pointing to the contrary.

 

I believe that interpretation on the origin of life, or descriptions are transcribed to men that lived for less than 30 years at a time. I believe they are inspired by God.

I put weight on the concept of Christianity because I've felt the presence of God. Some stories seem profound, but I'm sure the truth will be given to me when I meet him.

Why does it bother you that people believe in God?

 

And yet in this very thread you've stated quite clearly, "What I don't put my bet on are theories that can't be observed."

Interesting

Why do you think it bothers me? All I'm doing it applying the same level of critique to your 'theory' as you were to a different theory. I'm simply asking questions.

Seems like every theory raises questions, so I guess man just needs to keep asking them and keep trying to find an answer. I for one am not going to criticize those who are actively seeking the answers to questions they admittedly don't know, as opposed to those who pretend they already know it. That's just me.

 

Study my friend, Study. It takes years to make sense of the good in the Bible. Look around you, the evidence is all about. Look at your neighbors. The men and women who live for the love of god or the fear of him
make vastly better neighbors than the scoundrels that live without constraint.

 

I don't believe this to be true. Good people are good people regardless of faith. I have had good neighbors and bad ones, and in my personal experience religion did not play a big roll in their quality. Go to a prison, how many of those people are religious? The majority.

 

Yes study... study the past and the countless atrocities that have been done at the hands of men of faith. In the name of God, etc. I don't need the bible to know how to treat others with respect. That's not evidence.

 

My goodness, that isn't very observant.

 

A good place to start your quest is the book, "Who Wrote the Bible". That will help put the stories of the old testament in a proper perspective with the new testament.

 

Yep, we are talking science here. And with science, there are observations and translations of those observations. Theories without observation doesn't seem scientific to me; especially if they pretend to give answers with the knowledge of observation is probably never going to happen in our lifetime.

Could be the tone. It doesn't bother u?

 

http://www.adherents.com/misc/adh_prison.html
" The data came from Denise Golumbaski, who was a Research Analyst for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The data was compiled from up-to-the-day figures on March 5th, 1997. (Note that as of the year 1999, Analyst Golumbaski is no longer working for the Federal Bureau of Prisons; I had telephoned Analyst Golumbaski to request the latest figures, and was told by another analyst that Golumbaski was no longer employed there.) The data was requested by Mr. Rod Swift, who passed it on to me for my web site. I later called the Federal Bureau of Prisons and confirmed that the data did in fact come from their database."

inmate Religion numbers incarcerated percent of inmates

Catholic 29,267 31.432%
Protestant 26,162 28.097%
None/Atheist/Unknown 18,537 19.908%
Muslim 5,435 5.837%
American Indian 2,408 2.586%
Nation of Islam 1,734 1.862%
Rastafarian 1,485 1.595%
Jewish 1,325 1.423%
Church of Christ 1,303 1.399%
Pentecostal 1,093 1.174%
Moorish 1,066 1.145%
Buddhist 882 0.947%
Jehovah's Witnesses 665 0.714%
Adventist 621 0.667%
Eastern Orthodox 375 0.403%
Latter-day Saints 298 0.320%
Scientology 190 0.204%
Hindu 119 0.128%
Santeria 117 0.126%
Sikh 14 0.015%
Baha'i 9 0.010%
ISKCON 7 0.008%

 

But, I seriously doubt any of these people are incarcerated because they were following the teaching of Jesus. No doubt, they all fucked it up or didn't have a clue in the first place.

I would even say it directly, no one is in prison in the United States for following the teaching of Christ, but there are many there that do not do it well.

 

my point wasn't that they were there because they followed doctrine, it was that being religious or atheist doesn't make one moral, and your contention about our neighbors that are religious being good vs the non-religious is fallacy.

 

No no, it is no fallacy. Nor will appearing religious make the difference. You will notice I didn't say religious, I said follow the teachings of Jesus. Following the teaching of Mohammad won't keep your ass out of jail. Look at all the jihadist in jails and Gitmo, so following Mohammad won't get er done, they did that right down the line. Just puffing some sort of religion won't work, you got to walk the walk to get er done, talk the talk just won't do. Now to be fair I think the Buddhist, the Jews, and the Indus have a path also, not many of them in prison for walking the path. Probably none.

 

nobody here walks the walk at all times, so thats just a bunch of silliness anyways

 

A whole lot of people don't stray far, and don't go to jail, don't get arrested, and don't mistreat their neighbor.

That would be good enough.

 

So kinda walking the walk is "good enough"? That should be the church's new slogan

 

Have you stoned any adulterers recently?

 

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