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Two Simple Questions

1. What is evolution?

2. Does it contradict the Bible?

Please answer in as simple terms as possible. For example, I'll turn the tables.

1. What is the Biblical creation account?

Answer: Every living thing, plant and animal was created to reproduce according to it's kind. Grass makes grass, turtles make turtles. Birds don't make lizards or lizards don't make birds.

2. Does it contradict evolution?

Answer: Some of it, apparently does.
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SDavis · 56-60, F Best Comment
As simple as possible: evolution is the process from the beginning on how life formed and continue to form / evolve into all existing species ....... Evolution is man's scientific theory/analogy based on design and fossil evidence on how all living species came to be.


Not to be quite frank we don't know what process God used or how he used it. Scripture only informs us that God is the reason the earth and its inhabitants exist. Life forms show evidence of intelligent design even as I believe it was Hawkins said ( though he didn't mean a personal God as we view him)

We can just analyze from scripture

1) God told the Earth to bring forth plants after their kind
2) God told the waters to bring forth living creatures in abundance after their kind 3) God told the Earth to bring forth beast and cattle after it's kind 4) God formed man and "placed" him in the garden in which he had prepared in the East of Eden and told man to be fruitful multiply and "replenish" the Earth

First event from the scientific point of evolution plants were first as with creation they will like to say animals but though the sponges and amoebas and sorts are classified as animals they are not - so I'll just say not referring to those so named type of animals. And they have come to the conclusion plants existed quite a few millions of years before first analyzed ......... Second event from the scientific point of view the waters brought forth life forms - as with the creation account. Now science will say animals were first before plants because sponges are classified as animals and they say sponges can feel pain - how do they know.
I am not speaking of the animal they call the sponges, ((sponges have no nervous system, no digestive system, no circulatory system, no organs)) From the scientific point of view before there were land Beast, marine life existed, then the fowls. Much of the Dinosaurs had feathers; and to have feathers means you are a bird. So according to both science and creation marine life and fowl _ (dinosaurs/birds (and all birds don't fly) ............. Third event from the scientific point of view beast and cattle were next as evolution was taking its course and as with the creation account beast and cattle were next............. Forth event from the scientific viewpoint science places the evolution of man from a primate type animal and as with creation account man was next, only man was formed by God and placed in the garden. *God did not tell the Earth to bring forth man*

I don't believe in the process of evolution as it is taught ..... But the reproduction after it's kind spoken of in the Bible deals with procreation/reproduction (basically requiring male and female) that is not what evolution means. Evolution which is defined as ::::: The gradual development of something from a simple to a more complex life form has nothing to do with procreation.
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SDavis · 56-60, F
@Emosaur and just like most other religions speak of a god from the sky are Gods from the sky whose kingdom is not from this world - so what God wasn't just God to the Israelites and it can't be said and the religious world as an absolute he didn't present himself to other cultures.

Why are you telling me what I've already said twice that science classifies sponges as animals - that is a useless point you are trying to make.

Already know that scientists classified birds as dinosaurs - a chicken comes from the T-Rex family tell me something I don't know science says.

You can believe it's true all you want that's your business. As I said I don't believe in evolution ""as it is taught - you left out that part"" - dear person

I think you're trolling me!!! Keep it up!!!
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SDavis · 56-60, F
@Emosaur

It doesn't mean it's not my specific God either.

Do you even know what contradiction means.? Never contradicted myself I said what I feel and there is no contradiction in that. A sponge is not an animal and I don't give a hoot or toot who says it is.

This says You lie - birds are the only animals that have feathers and their ancestors did too which are the dinosaurs according to scientific evolution. And the question becomes who actually named these creatures other than man and put them in categories that they chose to other than man ........... What are the dinosaurs to birds = Ancestor Ancestor Ancestor now what is the definition of ancestor?
https://brevardzoo.org/the-function-of-feathers/

https://youtu.be/2g1iKg80p9M
Oh now you're asking what my problem is with how evolution is taught?
Actually I had enough of you goodbye
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@Emosaur [quote]You're anti-science then.[/quote]

[b]WHO IS!? BLASPHEMY!! BURN THE HERITIC!!![/b]
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@Emosaur Sure you don't. See the new boss? Same as the old boss.
SDavis · 56-60, F
@Emosaur

Wrong again there are a lot of things that science has analyzed that I agree with and there are some things that I don't.

And to be quiet honest scientists don't even agree with other scientists quite often ....... but you would call them anti-scientist wouldn't or is it okay for them?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6366883/
youhttps://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/a-first-step-in-quantifying-disagreement-across-science


And I don't need a lesson from you about dinosaurs or anything else.

Frankly I don't care what you ask _ and that, I do have right too.
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SDavis · 56-60, F
@Emosaur they are classified as animals by man and they are not - and faith has nothing to do with it and I can believe as I choose. I don't care if you call it cherry picking or not and I bet in life you have Cherry picked and will do it again.

As I see it I don't need a lesson in dinosaurs and birds nothing I've said nothing is in error concerning what evolution has classified them as - you need a lesson in understanding what you read, instead of jumping into one of those negative views without understanding.

Ridicule all you and any other who choose to - no skin off my back, no money from my pocket, no food off my table, won't interfere with my life none whatsoever.
I said enough of this I mean it enough of you goodbye.
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