River, your beliefs 'seem' all over the show. Making sense of them / avoiding curcular discussion is difficult. I am sure you mean well, but would you mind giving us all (or just for me ;)) more clarity
please :wub:.
Section A: Please answer with a Yes, No or Not sure:
1. Intelligence = accountability?
2. Natural selection = evil?
3. Intelligent man was found in Ethiopia 200 000 years ago?
4. Were the first two humans accountable for sin, Adam and Eve?
5. Evolution = fact, no faith needed?
6. You believe we come from 1 cell 3.5 billion years ago?
7. Do you believe 1 cell can evolve alone / not on a population level?
8. You believe God set things in motion with the big bang?
9. Do you believe the bible is the word of God?
10. Do you believe God can inspire those who wrote His word?
11. Do you believe God did inspire / closely guide those who wrote His word?
12. Do you believe there is a devil on earth?
13. Do you believe the fallen angels are able to influence mankind?
14. Do you believe God is good and honest?
Section B: How are we to read these passages of scripture? Secondly, if your answer is anything but literally, please explain why you think they were written.
1. Genesis
2. Rest of the Pentateuch (aka books of Moses)
3. History of Joshua to Esther
4. Prophets Isaiah to Malachi
5. Job
6. The gospels
7. History of acts
8. Letters in Romans to Jude
9. Revelations
Section C: Please answer with a short / concise answer:
1. Approximately how many particles / molecules / atoms were involved in the 'first phase of random evolution'?
2. How many steps of macro evolution /
noticeable missing links for the average Joe have taken place among humans in the last 30 000 years?
3. How many steps of macro evolution /
noticeable missing links for the average Joe have taken place between us and the flatworm of 550 million years ago?
Section D: Feel free to answer as you wish. These questions are taken from this site http://contenderministries.org/evolution/questions.php. I am sure all of us would appreciate you explaining / attempting them. Especially keen to hear the differences between TE's and AE's (atheists) on them:
1. Where did the space for the universe come from?
2. Where did matter come from?
3. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?
4. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?
5. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival?
6. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters should never produce Chinese books.)
7. Is it possible that similarities in design between different animals prove a common Creator instead of a common ancestor?
8. Natural selection only works with the genetic information available and tends only to keep a species stable. How would you explain the increasing complexity in the genetic code that must have occurred if evolution were true?
9. When, where, why, and how did
a. Single-celled plants become multi-celled? (Where are the two and three-celled intermediates?)
b. Single-celled animals evolve?
c. Fish change to amphibians?
d. Amphibians change to reptiles?
e. Reptiles change to birds? (The lungs, bones, eyes, reproductive organs, heart, method of locomotion, body covering, etc., are all very different!)
f. How did the intermediate forms live?
10. When, where, why, how, and from what did:
a. Whales evolve?
b. Sea horses evolve?
c. Bats evolve?
d. Eyes evolve?
e. Ears evolve?
f. Hair, skin, feathers, scales, nails, claws, etc., evolve?
11. Which evolved first (how, and how long, did it work without the others)?
a. The digestive system, the food to be digested, the appetite, the ability to find and eat the food, the digestive juices, or the body’s resistance to its own digestive juice (stomach, intestines, etc.)?
b. The drive to reproduce or the ability to reproduce?
c. The lungs, the mucus lining to protect them, the throat, or the perfect mixture of gases to be breathed into the lungs?
d. DNA or RNA to carry the DNA message to cell parts?
e. The termite or the flagella in its intestines that actually digest the cellulose?
f. The plants or the insects that live on and pollinate the plants?
g. The bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, or muscles to move the bones?
h. The nervous system, repair system, or hormone system?
i. The immune system or the need for it?
12. There are many thousands of examples of symbiosis that defy an evolutionary explanation. Why must we teach students that evolution is the only explanation for these relationships?
13. When, where, why, and how did man evolve feelings? Love, mercy, guilt, etc. would never evolve in the theory of evolution.
14. How did photosynthesis evolve?
15. How did thought evolve?
16. How did flowering plants evolve, and from what?
17. What kind of evolutionist are you? Why are you not one of the other eight or ten kinds?
18. What would you have said fifty years ago if I told you I had a living coelacanth in my aquarium?
19. What is so scientific about the idea of hydrogen gas becoming human?