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Originally posted by alkali
To begin with, if you believe in the Christian God then you believe he is all-powerful and has no limits. Looking at it from that perspective, it's not that hard to understand. If God can do anything, helping evolution along, or miraculously developing a savior inside of Mary, or whatever, isn't that big of a stretch.
To get more into the substance of the creation, 2 Peter 3:8-10 & Psalm 90:1-4 equates 1 day to God as a 1000 years to us. I don't think that 1 day to God is a 1000 years to us, I think those verses just show the grandness of the whole thing. Anyway, so if you assume 1 day to God could be an extremely long amount of time to us, that would give new meaning to Genesis where it speaks about God creating everything in 6 days.
Also, if you believe in micro evolution, you must believe in macro. If you say you only believe in micro evolution, you're faced with and must answer the question of how many micro evolutions does it take to make a macro. Having a good grasp of how DNA works, you can see that its all really the same thing. There's no difference between micro and macro evolution.
My 1 cent.
edit: grammar
[edit on 24-7-2008 by alkali]
Originally posted by alkali
Originally posted by Reneau
reply to post by alkali
what I believe him to be saying is that the two dogs decend from the wolf as the two breads of your squirl decend from a squirl, ergo the two breads could produce offspring as the great dane and chihula dog would be able to.
That makes sense. But assuming you gave them a long time to evolve, you'd get the same deal as a horse and a donkey. If you only gave the species a short time to evolve, as we have domesticated dogs, they'd still be able to produce viable offspring.
Now it's back to my earlier question of how many micro evolutions does it take to make a macro. And JPish, before you make the same duface comment you made earlier about this question, this is the same as "how make licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop". Of course, no one actually has a specific number, but it is obviously possible to get to the center of a tootsie pop.
[edit on 26-7-2008 by alkali]
Originally posted by alkali
reply to post by JPhish
They're not unable to mate due to genetic reasons, they're unable to mate due to physical reasons. We were talking about genetics. What point were you trying to make?
Originally posted by John_Q_Llama
I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing that made me feel that macro and micro evolution, creation, dinosaurs, ancient civilizations, etc., couldn't fit into the Biblical stance on how things began. Genesis leaves much room for interpretation as far as the details of what types of living things came and went during those early times. When you combine that with the fact that there are so many ancient ruins scattered around the planet, and dinosaur bones and fossils buried under thousands of years of soil, it seems easy to accept the idea that Genesis doesn't tell everything. Who knows what was destroyed and killed by the great flood.
I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing that made me feel that macro and micro evolution, creation, dinosaurs, ancient civilizations, etc., couldn't fit into the Biblical stance on how things began.
Originally posted by JPhish
Originally posted by nashdude
Who else could "Me" be? Unless we're considering schizophrenia, me can only mean me.
if Christ was possessed by another force, it makes sense to me.