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Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:

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From: Sam Stone
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 02:07
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free radical wrote:
> It is a scientific fact that, before the beginning of ancient and modern
> human history, most of the world was covered in gigantic sheets of ice. That
> lends scientific/historical credence to, but does not necessarily prove, a
> global flood as described in the Bible, which also may just be a local flood
> (instead of translating the passages "covering all the earth," it may be
> valid to translate them as "covering all the land in the area").

Very nicely put.

> Finally, I think macro-evolution theories have all been
> scientifically/historically disproven. The fossil record doesn't support
> them, among other evidence. "Micro-Evolution," or change of genes within
> species, is possible, however, as the breeding of dogs and the Bible itself
> attest.
> 
> ts

An intelligent and well written reply.

> www.answers.org
> 
> www.movieguide.org
> 
> "Sam Stone" <sirian@mental.org> wrote in message
> news:1QiBd.7797887$6p.1225180@news.easynews.com...
> 
>>Daniel Packman wrote:
>>
>>>In article <8UMAd.7711429$6p.1212943@news.easynews.com>,
>>>Sam Stone  <sirian@mental.org> wrote:
>>>......
>>>
>>>
>>>>http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/science.shtml
>>>>
>>>>Statements Consistent With Physics .....
>>>
>>>
>>>Consisten with is not the same as physics itself.
>>
>>Yes I know, we've got that anal scientists narrow style to leap over...
>>
>>
>>>These "predictions" of nuclear processes and television
>>>are so vague that they could be just about anything.
>>
>>Bet you detest Nostradamus too.
>>
>>
>>>The reference to the Greenland Ice sheet all but
>>>proves the lack of a global flood. Your followup
>>>of global flooding coincident with global warming
>>>is a prediction of widespread flooding, not a planetary
>>>inundation.
>>
>>Yes, that's a more accurate appraisal. I'm not promoting the idea that
>>every single acre was simultaneously underwater.
>>
>>In like manner the recent tsunami caused a robust 8' sea level increase
>>in the Gulf.
>>
>>
>>>Periodic floods throughout the world are well
>>>known. A planetary flood is contrary to physical evidence
>>>and required by biblical literalists.
>>
>>A planetary flood need not cover every inch of landmass, merely those
>>areas of human habitation and lifestyle at the time it was recorded.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 
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