Quote Originally Posted by alanmolstad View Post
Once again, I dont understand a word of your posts....But,on the bright side, you did quote me, and I take that as an invitation to expound on my quote you have listed! My quote was - ""It became clear to me, , there are no real arguments found in the Genesis text that stand against, , the teachings of evolution”, and what I mean by this is that if you stick close to the text in Genesis as written you simply dont find any anti-evolution arguments. This means that all the Young Earth Creationism junk we see blasted at us actually is not based out of the Bible, but rather is based out of the works of men. Consider: In the Bible we see in Genesis is says "And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures..."
Notice that the Bible teaches that God commanded the "land" to produce the animals. The "LAND!"The very land of the earth itself is what God commanded to bring forth Life on the earth. and this is noteworthy because when you follow the trail of life as taught in Evolution, back to the source you also come to this same point of agreement between Genesis and evolution. That agreement is that all life starts out as part of the Earth itself! So in a very real way, Evolution does trace back all life until it gets to the same source we see in Genesis 1:24 !!!!!!!
You yourself once said,

Terms “get their own meanings only from the context of the rest of the sentence.”
If you understand the concept of understanding terms, why don’t you start a discussion and select one term OR sentence you are in question of?

Surely, you aren’t trying to throw the thread with doublespeak are you?

Again, propping yourself under the guise of being an expert on clarity, , then why don’t utilize a little for***ude? Simply say,

I don’t understand ________ because_________! Uh, hello?

It’s that simple. Otherwise, it just appears you are just deflecting my reasoning and trying throw the thread as a troublemaker. Only a fool would.

For as you may have noticed, the thread is addressing the whole bible against evolution, did you not see that?

So back at ya, where do you see in the scriptures (all) that

“Evolution does trace back all life”
Didn’t you read Ravi’s conclusion?

“Evolution cannot be a theory of ultimate origins, it’s operation presupposes the existence of certain en***ies with specific potential behaviors and an environment of some specific kind that operates upon those en***ies in some specifically ordered fashion. The type of structure found in evolution did not itself come through evolution.”

You say evolution “traces”, but Ravi says it “cannot”. Why is a trained theologian wrong?