@gungasnake,
David wrote:
Quote:I doubt that he 'd like that.
Jesus had plenty of time to express his own position.
He never condemned evolution; he did not tell farmers
to stop breeding animals for better results. ...
gungasnake wrote:
Quote:I've mentioned this before... There are two kinds of evolution, i.e. MICROEVOLUTION which nobody disputes and which produces variations within one KIND of animal, and MACROEVOLUTION which is what the theory of evolution is about and which the controversy is about, and farmers are practicing the art of influencing MICRO evolution and, in fact, breeders told Chuck Darwin he was full of **** early on since they knew perfectly well that they could never breed a new KIND of animal
Well, there is something
new on the horizon,
or maybe closer than that: I saw on TV a few weeks ago
that some DNA of a spider was introduced into that of a goat,
such that the goat's milk included material of spider webs,
which has been found (if I recall accurately) to be, by weight,
5 times stronger than steel, and therefore of commercial value.
Thay also showed a pig with human DNA,
who was growing a human ear on his back, to be harvested for a human
who 'd had some misfortune whereby he lost an ear;
i.e., there r new phenomena in this field.
In my reference to Jesus I only sought to bring out that if he desired
to discourage future belief in evolution, he woud have done so,
speaking not only to his immediate audience, but to humanity in general, including posterity.
The same way that he did
not warn:
"do not believe in the heliocentric theory of the solar system (or of the universe)"
so also did he
not warn:
"don 't believe in macroevolution,
because if u believe in macroevolution u will thereby offend the Supreme Being."
There is no evidence that Jesus or God cares about
whether anyone believes in evolution.
A (formerly) firery, threatening, Protestant minister
who returned from death said that he was surprized
that God did not care about the minister's theology.
Quote:
Chihuahuas and great Danes are both still dogs; their genome is entirely determined by information as is ours, and the ONLY information present in any dog is that for dogs. Turn them ALL loose, i.e. all the dogs in the world and stop breeding them and, five generations later, all that will be left is your ordinary fifty pound wild dog which is common over the world.
I guess your position is that genetic mutation
is insignificant ?
Quote:
Jesus WOULD have said something had there been anybody in his audience stupid enough to believe that they could breed a cat or a goat from dog stock, i.e. if there had been anybody like Farmerman in his audience but, obviously, there WASN'T anybody that stupid walking around in those days.
Is it your position that when Jesus spoke,
he intended to limit his advice to those people immediately
in front of him and that he had no message for future generations ?
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