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"These men have such wonderful theories that it really seems surprising that they do
not themselves make a few worlds, since they profess to have found out so many
ways of making them."

Charles Spurgeon.

"These men have such wonderful theories that it really seems surprising that they do
not themselves make a few worlds, since they profess to have found out so many
ways of making them."

Charles Spurgeon.

"These men have such wonderful theories that it really seems surprising that they do
not themselves make a few worlds, since they profess to have found out so many
ways of making them."

Charles Spurgeon.

"If you're wrong and hell exists, you would go there too."

Maybe you can't prove if hell exists or not, but it's better to be safe.

By the way, that belongs in the heaven and hell thread.

By the way, that belongs in the heaven and hell thread.

Now, anything on Evolution?

if it was then we would see rabits whit cat legs and rhino's whit girafe necks.
(or something like that it was)

Creation Seminar 1 - Kent Hovind - Age of the Earth (FULL)

Kent Hovind? Seriously? HaHaHaHaHa! Even as far as creationists go this guy is a joke.

Oh wait my mother is a teacher, she can tell me why evolution isn't real.

All I can do is try to tell you the truth.

Guys, there's a private messenger for a reason...

Aaaanyhow, something on evolution! Specifically for those creationists lurking around here. Something for you to read, don't worry it's understandable, it's not PhD level or so. It's about the fact vs. theory thing, resp. the reason why evolution is considered both fact AND theory. Here's the Link.
Quick summary: common descent is fact, the exact mechanism is (scientific) theory.

Have fun.

I was browsing through some news articles and came across this.
Human origins traced to worm fossil in Canada

Basically all chordates, which include humans may have evolved from this worm. So we could be looking at our direct descendant here, at the very least a good representative of what that descendant looked like.

http://paleobiology.si.edu/burgess/pikaia.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikaia

Interesting. It does have similarities with the lancelet, as said in the first link. The lancelet, having a chorda dorsalis, is probably the next step in the list of representatives of our evolution (though the lancelet itself belongs more to a sister group of ourselves).

It's very interesting to trace back the developments made during the vertebrate evolution. It's also a domain that is conveniently well documented^^


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelet

deathbewithyou

Oh wait my mother is a teacher, she can tell me why evolution isn't real.

Seeing as I would like for this topic not to die and I just happened on an apologetics site with creationist arguments, I figured why not give another round of "what's wrong with that argument".

Interestingly enough this comes from someone claiming to have a Ph.D, so you know you can "trust" anything he says....
There are several Dave Millers listed on wiki who have Ph.Ds. If I were to guess however, I would go with this one.

Here we have the article in question.
http://www.apologeticspress.org/APContent.aspx?category=9&article=2642

Another earthshaking find within the evolutionary community only spotlights once again the inherent irrationality of the faltering, fallacious theory. During a Southeast Asian expedition, retired Florida State University science professor, David Redfield, captured the first photos of the Laotian rock rat, once believed to have gone extinct more than 11 million years ago. The fossilized remains, collected previously from sites in Pakistan, India, Thailand, China, and Japan, were thought to verify this last known relative of a long-extinct family of rodents known as Diatomyidae (âRetired Professor Captures...,â 2006). Surprise, surpriseâ"another alleged âancestorâ eliminated from the tattered evolutionary tree.

Observe the two contrasting, conflicting, mutually exclusive approaches to the created realm:

1. Evolution: All animals we see today are advanced forms of primitive precursors, and descendants of a single ancestor. As more advanced forms have evolved by means of adaptation, natural selection, survival of the fittest, and genetic mutation, the earlier forms were naturally displaced and disappeared. Fossils, millions of years old, represent life forms that were the evolutionary predecessors of present life forms, but which went extinct long ago.

2. Creation: God created a spectrum of animals during the six-day week of Creation. While reproducing only after their own âkindâ (an ambiguous Hebrew term that likely parallels the modern taxonomic classification âfamilyâ), these animals were created with the genetic potential for producing a variety of other species, giving rise to the diversity of animal life presently on the planet. Along the way, due mostly to environmental factors, many animals have become extinct. However, other species have escaped detection by humans for centuries, only to be rediscovered in some remote area.

Which of these two viewpoints fits the actual physical facts? Obviously, the latter. Evolutionists repeatedly find themselves in the embarrassing position of discovering that the alleged evolutionary ancestors of current life forms, that supposedly went extinct millions of years ago, are in fact still living. They are forced to cover their tracks by inventing a self-contradictory, nonsensical term to identify these anomaliesâ"in this case, âliving fossils.â But thatâs like a round square. Philosophers and logicians refer to such duplicitous posturing as irrational and âlogical contradiction.â Evolutionists call it âscience.â

There are several Dave Millers listed on wiki who have Ph.Ds. If I were to guess however, I would go with this one.

During a Southeast Asian expedition, retired Florida State University science professor, David Redfield, captured the first photos of the Laotian rock rat, once believed to have gone extinct more than 11 million years ago. The fossilized remains, collected previously from sites in Pakistan, India, Thailand, China, and Japan, were thought to verify this last known relative of a long-extinct family of rodents known as Diatomyidae (�Retired Professor Captures...,� 2006).

Surprise, surpriseâ�"another alleged â��ancestorâ�� eliminated from the tattered evolutionary tree.

1. Evolution: All animals we see today are advanced forms of primitive precursors,

As more advanced forms have evolved by means of adaptation, natural selection, survival of the fittest, and genetic mutation, the earlier forms were naturally displaced and disappeared.

Evolutionists repeatedly find themselves in the embarrassing position of discovering that the alleged evolutionary ancestors of current life forms, that supposedly went extinct millions of years ago, are in fact still living.