Does Charles Darwin approve of “Answers in Genesis”?

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God doesn't care if you accept evolution or not.



You're safe. Neither Moses nor any of the prophets took a stand on the way God created the diversity of living things.
Ho-hum. They did not need to because for them the only truth was Genesis 1
 
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I’m not a big fan of Luther.

I'm Catholic, so I'm not a big fan of Luther, either. He had some serious personal flaws. But I admire his love of God, his devotion to Mary, and the courage that let him say:
"Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen."

P.s. what’s the story behind your avatar?

Long time ago, I was posting on a board where a particularly aggressive atheist told me that I did not understand how "barbaric" Christianity is. I replied, "call me the barbarian, then." It stuck and so I used that. "Yehren" is the closest thing to "barbarian" in Chinese. Something like "wild man."

So the avatar shows an old Christian barbarian.
 

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Please do tell me what things are evolving every day.

Humans, for example. Some of it turns out to be useful and is spreading among humans. The Milano mutation. HbC, which is an improvment on HbS. HbS gives immunity to malaria in heterozygotes, but tends to kill homozygotes; the new mutation provides immunity, but does not kill homozygotes. How many would you like to see?

You know that things that evolutionists claim are millions of years old.

These are quite recent, but there are older ones. The mutation that gives Tibetans the ability to thrive at very high altitudes, for example. Thousands of years old. Given that our species is only a few million years old, you're looking for mutations that separate us from other apes. That would include mutations for skin pigmentation. Turns out there are a lot of them:

New gene variants reveal the evolution of human skin color | Science | AAAS

Evolution, in biology, means "change in allele frequency in a population over time." So any new mutation increases information in the population genome and every birth slight evolves the population.
 

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May I ask, do you believe that Jesus died and rose again on the third day?

If you're a Christian, you'd know this. Jesus is God. He came because we separated ourselves from God and needed a Savior. His death and resurrection was for that.
 

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Humans, for example. Some of it turns out to be useful and is spreading among humans. The Milano mutation. HbC, which is an improvment on HbS. HbS gives immunity to malaria in heterozygotes, but tends to kill homozygotes; the new mutation provides immunity, but does not kill homozygotes. How many would you like to see?



These are quite recent, but there are older ones. The mutation that gives Tibetans the ability to thrive at very high altitudes, for example. Thousands of years old. Given that our species is only a few million years old, you're looking for mutations that separate us from other apes. That would include mutations for skin pigmentation. Turns out there are a lot of them:

New gene variants reveal the evolution of human skin color | Science | AAAS

Evolution, in biology, means "change in allele frequency in a population over time." So any new mutation increases information in the population genome and every birth slight evolves the population.

I have been on this earth 78 years but as yet have seen no evolutionary change in humans. They walked on two legs when I came into the world and they still walk on two legs.
 
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Ho-hum. They did not need to because for them the only truth was Genesis 1

That is a modern revision to His word. Genesis, as you know, doesn't say how God created life's diversity, except to say that the earth brought forth living things.

And as you also might know, the text of Genesis itself tells us that it's not a literal history,but a figurative account.

I have been on this earth 78 years but as yet have seen no evolutionary change in humans.

HbC. Milano mutation.
Human body temperature decreasing:
Human Body Temperature In The U.S. Has Decreased Over Time, Study Finds

They walked on two legs when I came into the world and they still walk on two legs.

But we are changing in other ways. Genetically, we are quite different than humans who lived just a few tens of thousands of years ago.
 

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Evolution is observed daily. Perhaps you don't know what "evolution" means in biology. What do you think it means?

I think you're confusing evolution with a consequence of evolution, like common descent. However, even honest creationists admit that there is lots of evidence for common descent. Would you like to see that?
Creatures adapt to their environment. Look at finches beaks...yet finches are still finches... ‘according to their kind’ Darwin said that ‘kinds’ change, they do not :)
 

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I'm Catholic, so I'm not a big fan of Luther, either. He had some serious personal flaws. But I admire his love of God, his devotion to Mary, and the courage that let him say:
"Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen."



Long time ago, I was posting on a board where a particularly aggressive atheist told me that I did not understand how "barbaric" Christianity is. I replied, "call me the barbarian, then." It stuck and so I used that. "Yehren" is the closest thing to "barbarian" in Chinese. Something like "wild man."

So the avatar shows an old Christian barbarian.
O thought it looked a bit pagan...I used to be catholic-and accepted evolution.
1 Cor. 15:57
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. :)
 

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O thought it looked a bit pagan...I used to be catholic-and accepted evolution.

Luther wasn't pagan at all. He believed in Jesus, honored Mary, and accepted the Eucharist. He just thought that one could be saved by faith alone, in contradiction to Jesus' words.
 

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Creatures adapt to their environment. Look at finches beaks...yet finches are still finches...

Just different kinds of finches. All the finches in the Galapagos, for example, evolved from one species.

‘according to their kind’ Darwin said that ‘kinds’ change, they do not

It's directly observed. From time to time we happen to see a speciation, and a new kind of organism evolves. In one sense, genetics shows us that all known living things on Earth are a single "kind" but biologically, that one "kind" has diversified into many different kinds.
 
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excuse me? he died, but his life still exists?

A man's LIFE is his BLOOD, in his FLESH BODY.
Gen 9:4
[4] But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood

All Flesh and Blood Bodies Are already Sentenced TO Die. Do Die. Shall Die.
Gen 9:
[5] And surely your blood of your lives will I require;

The Soul in a Body, belongs to God, yet is Identified with the man's Name.
The soul has Gods Breath of LIFE.
The Living Soul departs a Dying Body.
If the Living Soul, is Saved...it Rises UP to Heaven to be With God, in Comfort....to wait for Judgement.
If the Living Soul, is Not Saved...it descends to hell (Divided Away From the Saved souls)...in Agony...to wait for Judgement.

Jesus had Not yet appeared and Offered Salvation Before Bodily Death...(as in OT Days of men Faithful to God), their souls were Saved at the Time of their Bodily Death.
Their souls, went to Hell, to a Divided Side of Comfort, Away from the Side of Agony.
(These Two sides were Divided, by a great Gulf of Water.
Luke 16:26).
None of the Saved souls could rise Up to Heaven .... Until After Jesus' Bodily Death, and His Soul went to hell and then Left hell...
As Jesus is First and Before, in All things.

If a man, accepts Jesus' Offering to Receive Salvation of their Soul...
Their soul is Saved, Before Bodily Death.

Jesus' Offering Also includes a QUICKENING of the LIFE of a man's spirit, (Truth IN a man's Heart). This Gift IS the man Receiving Gods SEED, which Cuts off (Circumcises) the man's Natural Truth (spirit)...and Births a man a New Spirit, Gods Truth.

AKA, Born Again.
AKA, John 14:
[17] Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

When the Saved Bodily Dies;
Spiritually...it is Crucified With Christ, and thereafter THAT man, lives in Christ Jesus' RISEN Body...that man called "IN" Christ.
Physically...it's Blood STOPS flowing.
The Dead Body is buried and Waits for Resurrection.
Their Saved Living Soul Rises UP To Heaven and Waits for its Body to be Resurrected in immortality.
Their Born Again spirit Rises UP to Gods Hand In Heaven and Waits for its Body to Resurrected in immortality.

LIFE IN a man IS NOT Limited TO BLOOD.
LIFE IN a Soul...belongs to God.
Gods Life Never Dies.
Gods Live currently Remains in A Soul (whether or not the Soul is IN the Body).
If the Soul IS Saved...Gods Life Shall Forever Remain in that Soul.
If the Soul IS NOT Saved...After Judgement, The LIFE in that Soul Shall Return To God...and THAT Body and Soul Destroyed.
If the man's Soul IS Saved, So Also Shall that man Receive Gods Seed, and the Birth of a man's New spirit.
If the man Never Receives Gods Seed, (his Natural Truth/spirit), After Judgement...will be Destroyed with his Natural Body.

Glory to God,
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dont be so sure imo. There is a better way to read that at least. I mean if Yah Himself came down and told you that there was no chance you were ever going up to heaven after you had died, would you believe Him or no?
Didn't Jesus already tell most of the world this ?

"With men it is impossible" He Says....

And "With God all things are possible", so those who do trust in Him to Accomplish what is impossible with men, it is already done....
Yet few trust Him....
 

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Does Charles Darwin approve of “Answers in Genesis”?
OP ^


Did Darwins "Theory" "approve" "answers" in
Genesis?

You didn't Reveal what exactly you are calling:
Darwins Theory...or Reveal any specific Answer in Genesis.

Glory to God,
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AIG has conceded a lot of Darwin's discoveries:
  • Speciation
  • Natural Selection
  • Common descent (albeit a limited amount of it)
 

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theophilus,

Since Charles Darwin is not alive today, the question, "What is Charles Darwin’s opinion of Answers in Genesis?" cannot be answered. Perhaps a better question would be: 'In the light of what Darwin taught in Origin of the Species (1859) and his other writings, what would be his view of God as Creator? Would he approve of the record from Genesis 1?

Oz
IMG_0421.JPGan image of Yah?
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Didn't Jesus already tell most of the world this ?

"With men it is impossible" He Says....

And "With God all things are possible", so those who do trust in Him to Accomplish what is impossible with men, it is already done....
Yet few trust Him....
trusting Him does not mean that faith cannot be misplaced however, Joseph?
No one has ever gone up to heaven
Your bargain with death will be cancelled
There is only One Immortal

so yes, by all means trust that, if you will