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  1. 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂 This cracked me up! I've read every book Mike Behe has put out, along with Stephen Meyer (looking forward to his new one, coming out in a few months time) and many other authors on the Intelligent Design Team (Think Discovery Institute & Reasons To Believe with Hugh Ross & team). I've read the other side as well, including a lot of Sean M. Carroll's work. Never read anything by Sean B. Carroll though 😂 Anyway, I love you're writing style, I've read two of your books and portions of the others, plus many, many blog posts, I always have a good laugh, am prompted to think deeply, and I almost always come away with a new perspective. I'd only debate Mike Behe's latest being a grounder 😉🤺 I like his suggestion that the Biblical Kinds are Roughly Equivalent to Families. (Canidae (dogs, wolves, foxes), Felidae (cats), Mephitidae (skunks), and Ursidae (bears), ect.) Or in some cases at the level of Genus, or something in-between the two, it's all a little unsure 🤷‍♂️ I think that was discussed most in-depth in his 2007 work, "Edge of Evolution", it may also be discussed in his most recent 2019 work "Darwin Devolves" I can't remember if it was mentioned or not 🤔. In any case, the mechanisms involved have never been proven to have the power necessary to go any further than that, nor are there any indications of that ever being possible, thus providing further evidence that the Bible is strongly grounded in science when it simply states in Genesis Chapter 1: "20 Then God said: “Let the waters swarm with living creatures, and let flying creatures fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” 21 And God created the great sea creatures and all living creatures that move and swarm in the waters according to their kinds and every winged flying creature according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 With that God blessed them, saying: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the waters of the sea, and let the flying creatures become many in the earth.” 23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. 24 Then God said: “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds, domestic animals and creeping animals and wild animals of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25 And God went on to make the wild animals of the earth according to their kinds and the domestic animals according to their kinds and all the creeping animals of the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good" Also, I remember reading this post. It was a good one. 👌🏼 I've seen much of this topic summed up in an equation before: "The Drake equation begins with a running start. What if instead of asking how many cosmic neighbors we have, we ask a much more fundamental question: If God had no role in the origin of life, what are the odds that any intelligent civilizations (including ours) would ever exist? In other words, what is the probability that intelligent life forms would arise through undirected processes? We can follow Drake's lead and use math to suggest an answer to this question. Let's call our equation the Adam Equation." "The Adam Equation F,Adam = fU × fA × fP× fL × fC × fI where F,Adam is the probability that intelligent living beings are here by chance. fU is the probability that the universe would have begun without God. fA is the probability that the right laws of nature result without God. fp is the probability of obtaining a suitable planet without God. fL is the probability that life arises from non-living material without God. fC is the probability that complex life develops without God. fI is the probability that intelligent, advanced life develops without God." "Scientists who insist on a naturalistic origin of the universe remind one of the White Queen from Wonderland. When Alice told the Queen it was not possible to believe in impossible things, the Queen answered, “I daresay you haven't had much practice. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”" "To believe in naturalistic origins of life and the universe, one must join the White Queen and have faith in impossible things; six impossible things, in fact: Impossibilities in Philosophy: The Origin of the Universe Impossibilities in Physics: A Goldilocks Universe Impossibilities in Astronomy: An Exceptional Earth Impossibilities in Chemistry: The Origin of Life Impossibilities in Biochemistry: The Complexity of Life Impossibilities in Anthropology: The Image of God" Anyways, Thanks for your work bro! With Christian Love, YB Kelton! 😎👊🏻
  2. I've also been reading this book via Kindle. I'm about 20 pages in, I try to follow the ID community as closely as I can via the Discovery Institute. I also enjoy books and articles written by "Reasons To Believe" an OEC Think Tank. This book goes a long way to discredit the very mechanism by which evolution claims to function. His example of the Brown Bear-->Polar Bear was interesting. Devolution: The break down of already complete and fuctional genes when it serves to improve survival. That's the opposite of what the Neo-Darwinistic Model predicts, and it doesn't break the "Kind" barrier either in that case.
  3. Hi! I met my husband in Charlottesville in 1970..There were a number of college students who studied and came in the truth..(about 10) some still there or nearby..David Giltinin, Hardy Johnson (Scottsville) and maybe others..Do you know them? We live in Daytona Beach, Fl. now..in the Port Orange congregation. Some SKE students are assigned to attend meetings here..maybe we will get to meet you!

  4. Agreed, Jehovah knows how everything came to be, he hasn't shared all of the details with us yet, but we get the idea 😊
  5. Potentially, yes, they could be off on their timeline. However, it could be close to correct, not an exact science. Whether Adam and Eve lived 6,000yrs ago or 60,000yrs ago doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the authenticity of the Bible's account, therefore not an issue involving salvation. Nor does our reading of the flood account, whether regional (still kills all humans except Noah and Family) or global. So, the research in the article could potentially point to either event depending on how you read the biblical accounts and the genealogies (gaps or no-gaps?). Either way, science is catching up to what the Bible has said all along! Hmmm, I wonder how Moses knew....?
  6. This reminds me of some of Reasons To Believe's research. There's a fantastic book with alot of interesting research on this topic entitled: "Who Was Adam: A Creation Model Approach to the Origin of Humanity" written By Fazale Rana and Hugh Ross.
  7. Just hot water and the same 3 blade razor for the past 6 months, sometimes the electric if it's real short. They wouldn't get a dime from me
  8. My sister avoids razors like the plauge, keeps those legs nice and prickly
  9. I know 😉 I read the ENTIRE beard thread back then.
  10. I would say go for it, but experience tells me to go with the local congregations customs bucking whatever that custom may be is futile, somewhat painful, very frustrating, and mostly unproductive. I tried back in the days just before the infamous article made it's debut! 
  11. I saw it in the theater, I actually really really enjoyed it. Was very moving.
  12. I love this thread. Very encouraging. The account from 1 Kings is outstanding. So many have given up so much..but gained so much more. Our God is generous.
  13. Very interesting. Curious to see what kind of success he has in implementing that policy. "Mormons" is such a big name, it overshadows "Latter Day-saints" in the minds of most people.

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