Evolution? How?

You're using yourself as an authority to support your own meanderings again rex, you gotta stop doing that. I'm getting dizzy from the spinning.

Guess what?
I too have studied the bible extensively! Not as the 'word of god', mind you, but as one of the oldest surviving historical fictions, as the work of literature that it is.(Although for considerably less time than timbers impressive 'several decades')
I know the bible better than any christian I've ever discussed religion with in person that's for sure. What makes you think you know anything I don't? My conclusions about the bible share nothing in common with yours. Having studied it extensively with no religious agenda, shouldn't I have come to the same 'correct' conclusions you have?
What of the umpteen zillion professed christians that constitute vanilla flavor christianity..are they ALL wrong?
Where are all the other people besides yourself, today and throughout history, that have also reached your 'correct' conclusions about what the bible really says/means? I certainly haven't read them. Perhaps they all took an oath of secrecy?
Rex, delusions of grandeur may not be your only delusions, but they are certainly part of the set.

The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a
snake.

H. L. Mencken

Lightwizard wrote:

The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a
snake.

H. L. Mencken

When you consider an atom can turn into practically anything it wants to I consider that last statement rather nieve...

As long as we're going all warm and melty over avatars here, as I've said before, Rex, your avatar is a fine bit of photography - I was impressed when you told me it was an original of yours; it reminds me very much of Joel Meyerowitz

Not just Americans, no....., but in the world survey stats they really are an abnormality in the civilised world. Do you think it's the Irish background thing?

(Last Legends was my fav Attanasio, but "Sea of Glass" by Barry B. Longyear (also out of print) was my alltime top. I'll see if I can find DKMoran in my local second-hand.)

Faith never has moved a mountain, heavy equipment, aided by high-energy explosives, makes regular practice of the excersize.

Why do I feel like I'm suddenly trapped in the movie "The Fly?"

I submit, Rex, that by the available evidence, technology and manpower regularly move mountains, while faith, religious or otherwise, never has been observed either to do so or to have been in any way functionally - as opposed to conceptually - operative in the accomplishment of such action. I denote the distinction between functional and conceptual operativity as faith in technology permits the notion of moving a mountain to be contemplated and action thereto directed to be undertaken with reasonable expectation of success.

The mustard seed is one of the very tiniest seeds yet it yields a tree that is so large from the right perspective the mustard seed tree can seem to tower over the mountains. Mustard seed trees grow rapidly they may have appeared to have "moved the mountains"...

rex

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The mustard seed is one of the very tiniest seeds yet it yields a tree that is so large from the right perspective the mustard seed tree can seem to tower over the mountains. Mustard seed trees grow rapidly they may have appeared to have "moved the mountains"...

. Total Bullshit. Mustard is of the brassica family. Its related to radishes and kale and brocolli and cabbages. Its an annual That is limited in its growth It doesnt grow to a large tree and the seeds are rather large(about as big as a radish seed). So another quote from the 2nd English version that "got it all screwed up from the Aramaic or Greek.