Origins of biblical scripture

You obviously haven't read a single word I've typed. It's hard to argue with somebody whose only rebuttal is that he couldn't read the facts between my obscenities.

Must be past your bedtime, goodnight.
 
Are you really suggesting the big bang was one big rock smashing into another one? Rock + Rock = cell?

More win!
 
No he's not. Charles Dawkins is not an evolutionist, he is a lawyer. Google his name. Fucking idiot trying to cover you stupid mistake.
 
No, Adolf Hitler and the Fascist, racist beliefs he was surrounded by as a rich, pampered teenager in Austria, the beliefs he accepted and elaborated upon in his own twisted mind, caused the Holocaust. Desperation as a result of the Great Depression helped Hitler realize his sick, evil dream, as it gave him a way to win the hearts and minds of the German public, but even this wasn't the true cause. Social Darwinism (the belief that certain races are superior to other races, and as such withhold the right to assert their dominance over other races because of the idea of "survival of the fittest"), which is what you are referring to, was one of the reasons behind many questionable actions in history, such as African Imperialism, but when it comes to the Holocaust, it is ridiculous to say that the cause was Social Darwinism, let alone the theory of evolution itself. No, the Holocaust can be blamed on many things, but without Hitler's twisted beliefs--and frightening mastery of public consciousness--it wouldn't have happened. Even if Hitler had simply come around in a time of economic stability, it is very likely that he would not have been able to seize control of the government. But regardless of the extraneous circumstances, Social Darwinism played a very small role in the advent of the Holocaust.
 
Sorry to keep posting, but...

Darwin was a practicing Christian. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
 
i think i completely agree with you in every way even though this is all you have posted. its sexy and therefore you are a ten karma rating my good pal.
 
look at yourself. your 15 and i know it may feel like you make a lot of your own choices and opinions, but you really dont. you just relay the garbage you hear from the "church elders" around you. formulate your OWN opinion, dont just copy and paste the shit you hear at church. you'll grow up a lot faster that way....
 
You should stop trying because the only point you made was how much of an ignorant fuck kids on here can be. You are so damn ignorant, like beyond ignorance. It's like when some hot ass chick wants to have sex with you, instead you go home and masturbate to old men. You really are that ignorant. The purpose of living life is to choose how to live, not live for someone else.
 
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Theory is a hypothesis that can be proven through occuring events. Hypothesis is a guess, theory is a hypothesis that can/has been proven. What has been proved in the bible? Nothing.
 
Correct. Like I said when he came up with the theory of evolution he never intended it to go against religion. When Christians first heard the idea they could not believe it and said Darwin was questioning god.
 
Those lovely folks who hand out the Golden Wheelchairs must be having a field day in this thread.
 
if you're interested in the story aspect, the creation of the creation myth, a very interesting take on it, is that of Daniel Quinn. Quinn wrote a series of novels based around the teaching's of Ishmael, a telepathic gorilla, whose perspective comes from outside human culture. While obviously written as books of fiction, Quinn's tale provides interesting insight as to how the beliefs mentioned in this thread came about.

This first section will be to dispel the 15 year old, i know everything about the world, anti-evolution, idiocy. This won't be for everyone, so please skip down to the next bold section (the exciting part) if you understand that humans have been around for 4 to 5 million years , and that our particular species, homo sapien sapien, 130,000 years. Now let's go over evolution 101 for those of you who need it. DNA is present in every part of the body, it is the code that spells out the recipee for you. You have the same DNA in the cells in your fingers as you do in the cells of your brain, and your stomach, and so on. When you reproduce, you hare giving away half your code of DNA; (each one of your sperm or eggs has only a part of the information to make you). When one gamete (a cell with a half set of DNA) meets its counterpart in the act of reproduction, a unique combination of half the man's DNA and half the woman's DNA make a unique complete set of DNA--a new person. Let us be clear for the slow people, each gamete is unique from all the other gametes, even within the same person. Each sperm or egg will combine to create a completely unique individual. We call these unique individuals brothers and sisters. They are similar, as they come from the same parents, but they are not identical, because the mother and the father have sperm and egg that varry from another, and the sperm and egg combine differently in each union of two gametes to a zygote (complete set of DNA). Now over time the whole population of brothers and sisters, spread out, and you have some individuals that live a little longer, find it easier to reproduce and reproduce more, while others struggle, don't find it easy to reproduce, and reproduce less. The more likely you are to pass along your DNA, the more power you have over the course of the species you belong to. (To further your knowledge and see a real example of how this process works, and how it is influced, read about the peppered moth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution )

You should never use the terms half evolved species, as it doesn't make sense. There are unsucessful species, which failed evolution, but you can compair them to relative species to understand where they came from, and could see how they are 'half evolved' in the sense that they share common features with an ancestor, and current living animal. There are also 'half evolved' species in the sense that they represent a transitionary species. See the Lung fish, which has the capability to breath under water with gills, and out of water with lungs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_Fish . There are both living and exticnt versions of creatures which give us clues to how the evolutionary process takes place.

As you should have seen with the peppered moth, evolution is still taking place today, but it is a slow process. However when you have a very large population, the ability for genetic change to take place is greatly reduced. If you're unable to understand this process, and have to ask why, if humans came from monkeys, do we still have monkeys around... give up, don't believe anything. It's not worth it. (The answer however would be that both modern day monkeys and humans share a common ancestor, and that you need to think of this like a faimly. If it's not confusing as to why you and your siblings are different from one another, and that you understand that you'd both come from the same mother and father, extend this to the evolutionary process, and realize it's just on the massive, grand scale.

ALRIGHT!! Welcome back... We're here for the fun part. The story of our creation, that of adam and eve, comes to us from the same time as the agricultural revolution. About 10,000 years ago, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers a bunch of humans decided that they wanted to begin farming. Not only did they want to farm, but they wanted to claim every bit of the land for the use of man. The term we will use for this is totalitarian-agriculture. It must be realized that Man had lived on this world for 4-5 million years already, hunting, gathering, being all monkey like, and that we, as Humans, as we understand ourselves to be, began perhaps 130,000 years ago, living lives like we might imagine the native americans living, or the bush men of austrialia living, or perhaps remote tribes in the amazon. There were a variety of life styles, agricultures, some that worked some that didn't. But it wasn't untill 10,000 years ago that one group of Humans begain to live a lifestyle where they toiled the earth, growing food only for themselves. Killing their competion, taking away their competitions food source, and denying competition the right to any food what so ever. Basically the battle for food became an all out war, rather than daily competion.

To use the terminology that Quinn uses in his book, the native american, indiginous, tribal peoples, that existed before the agricultural revolution, are known as the leavers, while the culture that practiced totalitarian controll of food and land is known as the takers. Let's begin tying the story of the takers and leavers into our creation story.

Now obviously the leavers can be best understood as typically hunter gatherers, or in a way thought as eating much like every other animal does. A wolf pack goes into the forest, and tries to chase down the deer. If the wolf is lucky, a deer is caught, and eaten, if the deer is lucky, the wolf goes hungry. This is living "under the hand of God", "by the Gods" and it can be said that only the Gods have knowledge of who can live and who can die. (note back to evolution, this is determined by your evolutionary advantages/disadvantages). This is a very easy life style, as nature works in through a path of least resistence.

When the Man takes a bite of the fruit of knowledge, he things he understands the law of who lives and who dies. Man thinks I can grow all this food, i can store it, and i can eat it every day, so when, unlike the wolf who isn't lucky to catch the deer goes hungry, man does not go hungry when he is unlucky and does not catch the deer. This sort of life style spread rapidly as it granted the populations the power to reproduce at a rate much higher than was allowed by the natural resources. When you have the power to reproduce in great numbers, you also have the ability to form great armies. You need great armies to be able to get more land, to grow more food, to support your unaturally large population. The eating of the fruit of knowledge provided us with a false understanding of how the world works, and we began to think that it was a good thing to grow all this food, and to not starve when we were unlucky. We freed ourselves from the Gods.

Now to supplement this false understanding of the way the world works, we also went through a period of mass forgetting. Once the totalitarian-agriculture took rule, we began this great forgetting. This was the period of time where we began the idea that man had come into the world as an agriculturalist. The idea that we toiled the land, and lived by the sweat of our brow became the standard story of our begining; When it is far from being true.

I hope i've given Quinn some justice, and recomend finding Ishmale, or the story of B to give you a clearer idea of what is being said. It is a truely revolutionary mind set, that seems very obvious when presented the way it is. If you are writing a report on this, perhaps using Quinn as a contemporary take on the orrigins of people would be quite fun.
 
so basically what he is saying is that the genesis creationalism was more of a change of mindset of people as whole rather than people just being created? and after this mindset was established people forgot all their history before that and just figured we were always like this before this agriculture revolution there was nothing so thats the start of humans? that's what i got out of it anyway.

it is really interesting and kind of a beautiful metaphor with the apple and such.
 
It's more like the common conception about our world is that we are a collection of a variety of cultures, but the truth of the matter is, we're really one culture, a culture that's foundation is based on the belief that man is made to rule the world and that the world was made to be ruled by man. Man owns the earth to grow his food, and he allows cows to live because they feed him, and he doesn't allow wolves to live because they eat his cows.

The agricultural revolution is really the source of the majority of our problems, disease, overpopulation, famine, war, and crime (in the socially constructed sense), not to mention the obvious climate and animal population crisis (extinction and invasive species). Furthering the above claim, we are one culture, this extends between east and west. In all our cultures we have a growing problem that we are born innately bad, with original sin. We need salvation, we need to live by God's grace, or to find nirvana and escape the toilsome cycle of life.

It doesn't matter where you go in the world, you can ask someone if they need to be saved, and they will know what you're talking about.

i really recommend reading a book, they all are pretty much the same basic philosophy, only the way the story is conveyed changes. I personally like the story of B the most because it is presented from the view point of a Christian clergyman investigating the ideas we've been talking about. It includes both the Christians interpretation along side a lecture presentation of the material. check it, it's a mind opening experience.
 
First of all. a couple of very nit-picky things:1) a theory is a working hypothesis that has been well supported through experiments. Nothing can be proven, only disproven as new evidence comes to light.2) whales did not turn into humans. The analogous structures found in the two (flipper/arm) are evidence for divergent evolution. That is, a long time ago there was an animal from which both humans and whales are descended

Second of all, if you are wondering how life was created on earth, one of the most popular theories is based off of Miller's experiments published in 1953. He hypothesized that the conditions on the primitive earth (certain ratio of gases, lightning providing energy, water, etc.) led to the creation of particles important to life such as amino acids. Why does this theory have so much support? Because by mimicking these conditions in a closed environment he managed to create some of these particles. Since then new experiments have occured providing new insights and the theory has been revised. Is it complete? No, Is it correct? Probably not, but there is much evidence supporting it and none disproving it. However if such evidence is found, the theory will again be revised.
This all said, I don't believe in evolution as the be all and end all for the origin of life. It is a possibility, but I believe there are many other possibilities that no one has even looked into yet. Could it be that God created everything? Maybe, again no way of proving this, many people can evidence to support it. Sometimes the simplest answers are correct. My only issue with this is it is impossible to test experimentally,
 
ive been over this allready i used the wrong wording i mean God's plan of redemption started way before Jesus
 
The Church it's self is what does damage to religion...Martin Luther died a catholic...Muhammad was a prophet to most but the most important to muslims (Jesus was considered a prophet to them)...My best suggestion would just be to quit hate on people who try to find meaning to their lives unless they are radicals or trying to get in your face about why you're wrong...
 
the bible has many authors
some phrophetssome apostles and some evangelists

as for the New Testament
it is just recorded eyewitness events of Jesus' life
 
The bastard child of Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking.
Duh. Moron.
This is literally the most cringeworthy, lunacy laden thread I've stumbled across in months.
Josh ole' buddy. You're 15. You should be experimenting with masturbation, taking drugs, and shaving your peach fuzz coated face in hopes that genuine bonafide man hair will replace it.
The ONE thing you should not be doing is waxing philosophical about the genesis of the universe and whether evolution is a sound theory whose roots are firmly planted in logic and fact,
For fuck's sake...it's a coinflip as to whether you still sleep with a nightlight or onesie pajamas with feet.
Shut the fuck up.
 
evolution is not rooted in fact and logic it is a theory with no hard evidence. If you want some evidence for God read a Creation magazine. I can post up some articles from there if you like
 
Honestly...I really dislike this sort of statement and wish people would refrain from using it.

Everyone believes the things they were told as a child to some extent. In fact what we are told and experience as a child ultimately determine what type of person they are to day. We are all a little "brainwashed" by our cultural surroundings.

However there are fanatics on both sides of the argument who are closed minded to any sort of objection, and can only be taken with a grain of salt...

...In response to the topic of the thread

Several books of the Old Testament were written by King David, and King Solomon who probably are the most respected kings in the Jewish faith. King David was said to have been appointed by God through a prophet, I think Samuel. King Solomon was appointed in the same way.

Many of the books of the New Testament were written by the Apostle Paul, who was responsible for spreading Christianity around the Roman Empire.

I think the reason Christianity caught on so much during that time was the peoples devotion to the faith even through a time of intense persecution. Nero, the emperor of Rome during the time, spent a great deal of time trying to wipe out Christianity, but despite his best efforts it kept growing. People saw followers of Christ dying, in brutal ways, for their faith, and thought there might be something worth while in it.

That is about all I know, but I am sure you could dig deeper.

I hope that helps to give you a starting point for your research.

 
Fuck, tht's what I meant to say about my theory I just couldn't find the words. I knew it had to do with something about experiments. My bad guys, now I feel like and idiot. I never said a whale evolved right into a human, I just said it had VERY similar bones to other land mammals and it also had some vestigial organs found in other mammals. Josh was the ignorant fuck that said they changed straight to humans. I left a lot of details out of my posts to keep the typing down so they might be confusing.
 
Some ignorant fuckhead started that because like all the Stupid shit Christians, he thought evolution was supposed to go against Christianity. Charles Darwin never intended for it to go that way. Josh you have never ever replied to when I say this, is that because you are too single minded.
 
very well put

advancements in our problem solving skills allowed agricultural totalitarianism to replace our previous hunter-gatherer ways. The introduction of agriculture for humans resulted in an incredible population boom (people like to eat and they like to fuck, and agriculture let people do this A LOT more).

perhaps our desire to make babies was far more interesting to us than our desire to record any sort of historical literature... until of course the time when religious scriptures started emerging...

are biblical scriptures some of the earliest known forms of historical documents?

i know they have found stuff like cave-paintings, but these are hardly historically accurate accounts of past events.

perhaps our ability to transfer our perceptions into historical documentation was still quite raw back in the day, as compared to now (an age where it seems EVERYONE is entitled to their own facts, to referece Stephen Colbert)
 
by good he means completely innaccurate solely faith based arguments with no factual evidence whatsoever
 
Why don't you actually take the time to read thru some of it before you dismiss it all as bull shit. And even if Darwin did not intend for evolution to condredict God, it sure has become just that. Evolution is merely a faulty crutch for atheists to use as a way to convince themselves that God does not exist. People will cling to the most ridiculous ideas in order to avoid acknowledging the existence of God
 
There is evidence for evolution too. If you think this shitty argument will work, why won't my argument about evolution work? There is far more evidence in evolution. Why do you never say anything back when I say Darwin never intended for evolution to go against Christianity. Stop being a douche and admit you feel like a fucking idiot for thinking evolution was started to go against Christianity. What evidence is there of god? You have never told us what evidence there is. I don't want it from some 100% bullshit creation magazine either.
 
again, read some of it. While some of it is faith based, much of it is evidence based. Consider this: A peacocks feathers. According to the evolution theory everything evolves for a purpose. Why does a peacock have feathers then? There is no known reason as to why peacocks have feathers, they are useless to the bird
 
STOP HIJACKING MY FUCKING THREAD.

If you want to discuss evolution with your friend, do it via PRIVATE MESSAGE.

stop stirring the pot.

you're only posting this bullshit because you know it will get a response.

 
i never said evolution was started to go against christianity. i said that is what it is today. People use it as a crutch to support there atheist believes. Call it what you like, but the evolution theory is a religon
 
easy on the generalizations bro. i´m christian and i, like lots of other christians, (including the catholic church i think) accept evolution and see the genesis story, and lots of other parts of the bible, as parables meant to teach us, and not as fact.
 
I DO read it. It is shit. Why would Darwin, a practicing Christian EVER create a theory to use to deny god? WHY!? You have been so damn ignorant. Evolution is not a way to escape god. In fact, the most logical thing is that god made the Earth billions of years ago, put down the first cell and let it evolve, how about that?
 
Really? Ever realize how the ends of the feathers look like EYES? It's a defense mechanism you dumb mother fucker! If a peacock feels threatened, it spreads its crazy thing of feathers and the predator is scared because the peacock has just tripled in size and seems to have 30 eyes.

Oh. My. Fucking. God. Would. You. Please. Stop.
 
Just so everyone knows where i am coming from i do not believe in evolution i believe in 6 day creation and except the entire Bible as fact
 
NEVER would have guessed that!!!????? Fucking idiot. Like Jerad said. Just stop, you are digging yourself deeper and deeper every post you make, you have proved nothing or shown any way god's existence has been proven.
 
God did not put down the first cell and let it evolve he made the earth in six 24 hr days. And evolution is most definetly used by many people to escape God
 
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