[quote]hspder wrote:
steveo5801 wrote:
That is only your belief . You can choose to believe this, but you must realize that unlike Christian belief which is based upon the Word of God, your belief here is made up out of your head.
I take it very personally when people insult mine or other people’s intelligence. I was trying to be as polite and diplomatic about all of this, but, seriously, I’m starting to see you do not understand how to return it in kind.
So, what you’re saying is that Science is all made up out of our head, while the Word of God is not. That is indeed your prerogative.
I’ll make one more attempt at diplomacy, and try to make my point as kindly as possible.
Let’s, for a moment, completely forget about the theory of Evolution ? in fact about all scientific evidence, that shows, for example, contrary to what the Bible says, the lifespan of humans has been only increasing since we came about 200,000 years ago – so, I really don’t think Noah got to live to be 600 years old, and much less that he was the 10th generation after Adam (that would put him about a couple of centuries after the first Man, which means 190,800 years ago, at which point we all lived in the savanna and clearly were not able to build ships). For the sake of the argument, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt there, take everything in Genesis as a non-literal allegory, etc., and get back to basics and things we can observe with our own eyes, today.
As I said, let’s forget about all of that, and, for a moment, accept the Bible as the Word of God and hence the Truth.
So tell me:
Considering that the Word of God says God is all-knowing, all living creatures were created by God, and the story of Noah according to chapters 5-9 of the book of Genesis (where “every living thing of all flesh” was saved):
How the Word of God – according to you, the TRUTH – explains that several animal species (“living thing things of all flesh”) get extinct every single day? Is it that God changes his mind? Is it that God realizes that a mistake was made creating them? How can you consolidate that with the belief that God is all-knowing? What is the point of creating millions of species, having them survive for millions of years, save every species during the Flood, to later destroy them, one by one?
Is there a prophecy hidden somewhere (maybe in the books of the Bible the mysteriously vanished over the course of History, and even more mysteriously nobody seems to care about) I’m missing that says that God’s plan includes killing off species by the handful every day, for absolutely no apparent reason, and in clear contrast with every single thing said in Genesis?
Basically, where does it provide an explanation for that in the Bible?
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Good question.
The Genesis account of Creation says that God created animals by “kind.” God led two of “every kind,” and “every sort,” into the ark. Therefore, not all the animals that we see today were actually in the Ark, but the “kinds” were. God instilled into these kinds the DNA that made it possible for different species OF THE SAME KIND to develop. Hence, I do believe in “micro-evolution” – the development of different species from the same “kind” of animal. Hence cats are cats, and dogs are dogs. It is “macro-evolution” the development of a different kind of animal or human from a different kind that is complete and utter nonesense.
As to why several species go extinct every day. I have no idea. I would caution you, however, in making such sweeping statements because are you sure that there are no more of these extinct animals around? Have millions of people looked all over the Earth for them? Taking your suppostion as fact though, I am not sure what this has to do with God’s Word, since God never said in the Bible that all species must live forever. As to His purpose – I don’t know.
You could get saved and then ask Him in eternity.
PS. I never said “science” is made up – but Evolution is not science. It is a faith based atheistic religion.
Remember, when it comes to Creation – Were you (or anyone of us) there?
