evolution says that this fish grew a light bulb becauseĀ it lived deep in the ocean were you cannot see so over millions of years it grew a lightbulb. because it needed to see and needed a way to lure fish
is it not more likely that god created it with a lightbulb so that it see in the deep ocean were there is no light
evolution says that the lizard develop a defense mechanism were if an animal like a bird grabs him by the tail and trys to eat him it can make his tail fall off so it can get away and later grows it backĀ
is it not more likely that god designed the lizard with a tail that falls off it if it grabbedĀ so that it can get away
chipmunks have balloons for mouths that they use to carry nuts. evolution says that over millions of years the chipmunks mouths turned relastic because it could only carry a single nut with its paws and needed a better way to carry nuts so over millions of years it adapted to the nature and grew balloon cheeks
is it not more realistic to say that god designed the chipmunk with elastic cheeks so it can carry more nuts
evolution says that over millions of years the lion turned yellow to blend into the yellow desert so that it can hide thus hunt better
is it not more realistic to say that god created the lion yellow so that it can blend into the yellow desert so that it can hide better when hunting
evolution says that over millions of year the polor bear adapted to its nature and became white so that it can hide better in the snow is it not more likely that it was created white so that it can hide
here is a huge problem that evolution does not explain why do plants have medical properties.
how would an explosion from nothing produce a plant that regenerates the brain and heals damage from the brain stem.
tumericĀ http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/how-whole-turmeric-heals-damaged-brain-1
http://www.thespicedetective.com/blog/2015/11/17/how-turmeric-can-regenerate-a-damaged-brain-boost-brains-stem-cells
i took the explosion from nothing from ken hovind so i will source this video here for credit
the only possibility for this plant to have such properties plants to have these medical properties is that god createdĀ
now i can see you saying why are there so many poison plants.
and i say to that god cursed the ground when Adam ate the forbidden fruitĀ
Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you shall eat the plants of the field; (Genesis 3:17-18)
I sent you a reply earlier, but it seems to have vanished. I wish to thank you for your help, because I am a stranger to this new technology and every bit of help is welcomed with open arms. You ask if I believe if the 'supernatural' exists; the answer is yes, but our conception is wrong. I have put forward a post titled 'What is and what isn't? In the future I hope to bring forward an alternative explanation, backed by scientific fact. Thanks again.
Hello Johnathan, I am new to this debate. I have been researching the supernatural for over 50 years and have found some very interesting diversions which I hope we can debate over the days to come. First let me tell you about Dr Donald Hoffman, he is a cognitive scientist at The University of California. He went to investigate the decline of Australia's jewel beetle when it was near to extinction, this was after two million years of successful breeding. Only the male beetle can fly and he goes looking for the female which is brown, shiny and dimpled. What Hoffman found was empty beer bottles had been thrown away in the Outback over a period of years; the bottles were brown, shiny and dimpled; the poor male beetle could not tell the difference between a bottle and a female. Hoffman deduced from this that all life benefits from not seeing accurately. If you journey up the evolutionary scale to our species, when we come up against something we can't explain, in a desperate attempt at clarification we reach out for the supernatural, but by doing so we are doing the same as the beetle, we are clarifying nothing. This confusion gives the food the variety of levels of intellect need to feed and sustain an intelligent species. I will come back to you and try to explain the variety in life; we may not be looking at it accurately.
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Jonathan Schulz I'm sorry for my lack of response i debate on a lot of forums. and i just want to let you know this is one of the friendliest forums that i post on. thank u
DNA has a a repairing system that helps prevent mutations so change like evolution described would be impossible. http://pediaa.com/how-does-dna-polymerase-prevent-mutations/
this is this guy who came up with the evolution is impossible because of the dna repair system trying to prevent mutation talking point
https://insight.org/about/chuck-swindoll
so it would be impossible for animals or humans to change over time like Charles Darwin described.
i know that mutations do occur to our DNA but our DNA systems inherently try to stop it. are body's try to prevent cancer but cancer still happens it a unfortunate thing. and since our body's try to stop change or mutations it is not going to be good mutations like evolution describes. because if our body is trying to prevent something from changing the change it is trying to stop is bad not good.
a monkey turning into a human is like saying a turtle turning into a humanoid turtle that talks and knows kungfu.
animals being equipped to live in there environment is proof of intelligence not evolution.
this is the definition of intelligence
The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
āan eminent man of great intelligenceā
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/intelligence
how god apply s knowledge
lets start with an easy one to understand the night owl and night vision this how it shows intelligence by apply knowledge
Ā the creator would have had to have knowledge that the owl would live at nightĀ and would have trouble seeing so he applied that knowledge to the owl and gave the owl night vision.
https://www.owlpages.com/owls/articles.php?a=5
the creator must have had knowledge that dogs would be hot in the summer so when creating the dog he applied this knowledgeĀ and gave the dog the ability to shed its fur to cool down during the summer.
god must have had knowledge that it is cold during the winter so god applied this knowledge and gave the dog a way to grow a winter coat for the winter so it can stay warm
cats have scratchy tongues this proves that the creator is intelligent because he must have had knowledgeĀ that it would be hard for the cats to lick off all the crud off its furĀ so that it can have a shiny coat. if its tongue was soft it could not Ā get all the junk out of its fur it is like a brush. so the creator applied this knowledge and gave cats scratchy tongues so that it can groom its self
http://pawsonyourheart.com/facts-about-cats-why-do-cats-have-scratchy-tongues/
i understand your viewpoint that there is no god i thought the same during my teenage years. i believed that it was crazy to believe that we were created by a magical all powerful being who could do anything. but i came to believe in Christianity because i resized that god did exist. i now spend my free time trying to warn people that they might burn in hell for eternity i don't want to see that happen to anyone. forever is a long time. i realize the gravity of what is probably going to happen to you if you do not repent to Jesus Christ and accept him as a savior.
Jonathan Schulz what i like about my theory is that it works with almost if not all of evolution theory and thanks for the welcome. this is one of the nicest responses that i have gotten through debating and want to apologize for the amount of time it took me to post this your clown fish and anemone mutualism is a good example of this. this also works with my thing on medical plants evolution theory says that the clown fish needed a home and a place to hide from its predators so over time millions of years it adapted and it grew defenses that would protect it from the stinging of the anemone. so as a result the predators could not eat it because it was hiding in the stinging anemone and it could not get hurt because it adapted and could now live in the anemone there is a few problems with this would not the predators adapt to the stinging anemone and build resistance to it thus being able to hunt the clown fish and like my theory above is it not more likely that god designed the clown fish to live in the anemone so that it can hide from its predators. and the flood thing in your first post. you said that the animals in after the flood period would be better explain through evolution and adapting to there environment. i'm guessing you said this because all the animals would be in the same area after the flood. but Continent moved after the flood and i am assuming the animals got back to there normal areas that way. i guess that would support the continental drift theory.
To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg5(for in his days the earth was divided), and his brotherās name was Joktan.
https://biblia.com/bible/esv/1%20Chron%201.19
Hello, @blackdog43kids! I thought that was a very important point you made about medicinal plants. Darwin himself said in The Origin of Species:
"Natural selection cannot possibly produce any modification in a species exclusively for the good of another species; though throughout nature one species incessantly takes advantage of, and profits by, the structures of others....If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection."
(on page 212-213 if you want to read the whole section. I got it on this website https://archive.org/stream/originofspecies00darwuoft/originofspecies00darwuoft_djvu.txt).
Welcome, @blackdog43kids!
As creationists, it can sometimes be tricky to determine when we should appeal to a direct act of creation and when we should appeal to natural processes (i.e: microevolution or adaptation) in order to explain the outcomes we see. Of course, we believe that all things ultimately trace their origins to God's creative power, but some creatures (such as the polar bear) would be better explained by microevolutionary diversification after Noah's flood. For instance, the polar bear is still a bear, but it has adapted to be more successful in its physical environment. I am frequently amazed at all of the adaptive potential that God has built into His creatures!
On another note, evolutionists still need to explain all of these phenomena as well, except they must rely solely on natural processes (accidental invention, information coming from unintelligent sources etc.) for their explanations. However, it is good to remember that, even if an evolutionary explanation sounds plausible, that doesn't mean that it is ultimately true. Unless undeniable evidence can be provided that it could (and did) happen that way, the evolutionary explanation remains little more than a "story about how it might have happened."