"Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message news:<c1qvs0$9o8$0@pita.alt.net>...
> > Floyd wrote:
> > > "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message
> news:<c1q5ag$pvb$0@pita.alt.net>...
> > >
> > >>news:earle.jones-ED8BC4.10513827022004@netnews.comcast.net...
> > >>
> > >>>In article <b9b3de8.0402270533.6080f790@posting.google.com>,
> > >>> branchofjesse@hotmail.com (Jerzy Jakubowski) wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>eros_talk_origins@hotmail.com (Eros) wrote in message
> > >>>>news:<ab0de77f.0402262024.16c3ac25@posting.google.com>...
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>"Jason Gastrich" <newsgroups@jcsm.org> wrote in message
> > >>>>>news:<Le__b.2503$Bb5.698@twister.socal.rr.com>...
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>>Snowbird wrote:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>Jason Gastrich wrote:
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>>Even if all of those quotes were fabrications or exaggerations,
> > >>
> > >> it
> > >>
> > >>>>>>>>still wouldn't help the theory of evolutionism any.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>There is no theory of evolutionism. You are not doing Christians
> > >>
> > >> any
> > >>
> > >>>>>>>favours by parroting nonsense like this.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> > On its own merits, it
>
> > >>>>>>>>requires tons of faith.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>Since when has tonnes of evidence required faith?
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> > It requires belief in things that have never been
>
> > >>>>>>>>seen or proven.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>Apart from that fact that this is false, doesn't your faith in God
> > >>>>>>>require belief in things never seen or proven?
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> > This quote rabbit trail is a convenient somescreen for the
>
> > >>>>>>>>ones that don't want to confess that there is precious little
> > >>>>>>>>evidence for the theory of evolutionism.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>1) There is no theory of evolutionism.
> > >>>>>>>2) Even if there were, it would be different from the theory of
> > >>>>>>>*evolution*. 3) There is a huge mountain of evidence for
> > >>
> > >> evolution.
> > >>
> > >>>>>>>Creationists just deny it.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>It's sad that you can't see the true beauty and reality of
> > >>
> > >> creation.
> > >>
> > >>>>>>Yeah, believing I have a common ancestor with a banana and came from
> > >>
> > >> a
> > >>
> > >>>>>>rock.
> > >>>>>>Now that's true beauty and reality! Not.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>Jason
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>Yeah, it's much better to believe you have a common ancestor with
> > >>>>>nothingness and came from a pile of dirt, like the Bible says. Now
> > >>>>>that's true beauty and reality! Not.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>EROS.
> > >>>>
>
> >>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >>
> > >>>>>--
> > >>>>>"The next day..., Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree
> > >>>>>in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it,
> > >>>>>he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.
> > >>>>>Then he said to the tree, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again."
> > >>>>>... In the morning..., they saw the fig tree withered from the roots.
> > >>>>>Peter ... said to Jesus, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree ... has
> > >>>>>withered!"" -- Mark 11:12-14, 20-21 (NIV)
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>Points to remember:-
> > >>>>>Jesus was hungry.
> > >>>>>He looked for figs on a tree.
> > >>>>>But it was not fig season.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>Questions to ponder:-
> > >>>>>If it wasn't fig season, why would even a moron look for figs?
> > >>>>>Is talking to a tree and then killing it for not bearing fruit out of
> > >>>>>season a reasonable response, by any standard?
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Don't worry about the tree, the LORD was just making a point. Worry
> > >>
> > >> about
> > >>
> > >>>>your soul.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Uncle Davey
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>>*
> > >>>Why don't you explain the Lord's point, Uncle Davey. He walks up to a
> > >>>fig tree out of season and is obviously pissed and begins to talk to
> > >>>the tree: "May no one ever eat fruit from you again."
> > >>>
> > >>>And the poor tree withers and dies.
> > >>>
> > >>>Now, Davey, please explain the point.
> > >>>
> > >>>earle
> > >>>*
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>The point is that we should bear fruit.
> > >>
> > >>What's the Greek again? "Hekaston dendron ek tou idiou karpou
> gignosketai".
> > >>
> > >>Uncle Davey.
> > >
> > >
> > > Mammals should bear fruit? Hair, fine. Milk, some of us, sometimes.
> > > But *fruit*???
> > >
> >
> > Hey, for creation "science" literally *anything* is possible! :-)
> >
> > Seppo P.
> >
> >
>
> We are talking about fruit in it's figurative sense, presumably.
>
> If a literal meaning is plainly impossible, it must be true only on the
> figurative level.
And exactly WHO determines if a literal meaning is "plainly
impossible"?
BTW... using your own definition, a global flood is certainly out of
the question.
EROS.
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IDist Paradox No 23: The fact that the laws of the universe are
perfect for life is evidence for a Designer. The fact that the laws of
the universe can't produce life is evidence for a Designer.
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