Comment on Walla Walla University: The Collegian Debates Evolution vs. Creation by -Shining.
3 Spiritual Gifts 90 (1864)
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Walla Walla University: The Collegian Debates Evolution vs. Creation
@ Art Hope you don’t mind if I post this to my facebook account. Most concise extrapolation I have seen. Thanks.
-Shining
Walla Walla University: The Collegian Debates Evolution vs. Creation
@David Read: Of course we do not believe in the impossible. What we believe in is a God who uses the knowledge of how He has things set up in such a way that it might seem impossible to us. The most amazing item of this is being able to make our miserable selves fit for living next to in heaven.
-Shining
Walla Walla University: The Collegian Debates Evolution vs. Creation
I don’t think we know how much has been allowed post-creation. God said very definately that there would never be another flood of water to cover the earth but He did not say animals would not be allowed to mix. In fact, the S of P seems to indicate some really bad news blending. This does not appear to be of the mindless sort, tho, but malicious intelligence. (that does not mean that there was no undirected mutation but it does seem to indicate some major confusion of God’s creation.) Following are some interesting quotes on amalgamation—
But if there was one sin above another which called for the destruction of the race by the flood, it was the base crime of amalgamation of man and beast which defaced the image of God, and caused confusion everywhere. God purposed to destroy by a flood that powerful, long-lived race that had corrupted their ways before him. {1SP 69.1}
Every species of animals which God had created was preserved in the ark. The confused species which God did not create, which were the result of amalgamation, were destroyed by the flood. {1SP 78.2}
Those who profess to be followers of Christ, should be living agencies, co-operating with heavenly intelligences; but by union with the world, the character of God’s people becomes tarnished, and through amalgamation with the corrupt, the fine gold becomes dim. When worldly agencies are introduced into the church, it is evident that Satan is carrying out his devices, working through those who profess to be followers of Christ, making them ready at any time to engage with him in disheartening and discouraging those who are faithful, who would stand wholly on the Lord’s side. {RH, August 23, 1892 par. 3}
Christ never planted the seeds of death in the system. Satan planted these seeds when he tempted Adam to eat of the tree of knowledge, which meant disobedience to God. Not one noxious plant was placed in the Lord’s great garden, but after Adam and Eve sinned, poisonous herbs sprang up. In the parable of the sower the question was asked the master, “Didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it tares?” The master answered, “An enemy hath done this.” [Matthew 13:27, 28.] All tares are sown by the evil one. Every noxious herb is of his sowing, and by his ingenious methods of amalgamation he has corrupted the earth with tares. {16MR 247.2}
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Southern Adventist University opens Origins Exhibit
@Professor Kent: You have asked many more than one question. And when one is answered, you ask another. No one here claims to have all knowledge about the present, let alone the past but many of the questions you ask, you could find the reasonable creationist responce on the web, if you, as you have several times stated, really want to know.
-Shining
Southern Adventist University opens Origins Exhibit
thanks bob, i found that bird track article worth saving to a word document. Old saying proved again, “A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.” This won’t help those who don’t want to consider creation viable. Each time one of their accusations is explained they just go looking for another. But the article will help those who are honestly considering all the options. Thanks again
-Shining
Southern Adventist University opens Origins Exhibit
@Professor Kent: I am comfortable with fossils after the flood. It makes a lot of sense. I will say that many things both creos and evos believed got changed after the succession of events on Mt. St. Hellens so that anything stated beyond the accounts of inspiration are always tentative in my mind.
-Shining
Southern Adventist University opens Origins Exhibit
@ Professor kent – I could go on but this by Natl Geographic should do for a finale. If one looks it is easy to find a plethora of evidence. In spite of evidece not yet found, evidence kept in private collections, evidence destroyed or tamered with, or evidence about about which inaccurate conclusions have been drawn, there is volumes of it there for the looking. In the past, there were plants and animals much bigger than what we see today. -Shining
“A team of amateur spelunkers has discovered caves filled with very well preserved fossils of giant flat-faced kangaroos, marsupial lions, wombats, Tasmanian tigers, and other megafauna that lived in Australia during the Pleistocene era, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0807_020731_TVmegafauna.html
Southern Adventist University opens Origins Exhibit
NEW DELHI: The largest non-carbonaceous plant fossils, 140 times bigger than today’s algae species, have been discovered in western Rajasthan (India), opening a new window for understanding evolution of life on earth.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-10-05/science/28098229_1_plant-fossils-jodhpur-scientists