Comments on Ambassador Watch: Beyond Today... Neanderthal Apologetics

To elaborate on what I wrote about the engine of m...

2016-07-03T03:16:11.190+12:00

To elaborate on what I wrote about the engine of mutation/natural selection, there are many scientists who don't believe there has been enough geologic time for the small rate of beneficial mutations to account for the great diversity of flora and fauna in existence currently and over past epochs. This is why I think guided and managed evolution is more plausible. But most theistic evolutionists seem to believe in a random process.

For me, I can happily countenance the evolution/ID...

2016-07-03T00:58:44.015+12:00

For me, I can happily countenance the evolution/ID paradox.
Not seeing mutations as a sufficient motivational feedback loop for innovation.
For instance RNA codons have redundancy for amino acids to guard against mutations.
And RNA has 'start' and 'stop' bytes (for proteins) - like latest tech serial digital bitstreams!

To NEO- I was surprised, given the issue, you did...

2016-07-02T07:27:55.671+12:00

To NEO-

I was surprised, given the issue, you didn't use these quotes from Dr. Collins' book:

"Evolution, as a mechanism can be and must be true." P107

"Truly, it can be said that not only biology but medicine would be impossible to understand without the theory of evolution." P133

Jim

I guess, Even if science understands the brain an...

2016-07-01T04:50:14.192+12:00

I guess,

Even if science understands the brain and the mind a 100% still religion will have the last word by stating that science is correct in having desected our means of connecting with God.
Like with Galileo the argument was not about the science at all. The argument in the court was about the authority to declare it and the limitation of the freedom to irritate the powers that be.

nck

NEO, Interesting! I think science is solving the...

2016-07-01T04:45:16.362+12:00

NEO,

Interesting!

I think science is solving the problem of the human mind too.
I saw the latest pictures of the intricate network of our brain.
Far more complex than computers.

We are the only species that is able to project images of past and future events and feelings in our brain.

For example when a dog has a broken leg with 20 iron nails in it, the moment its sees a cat it starts chasing the cat because the dog is incapable to project an image of the future pain it will endure because of its movemement to chase the cat.

Humans have far more connections and are thus able to project that image.

Now if you can project an image of pain or joy. One can also project an image of self and God. But that was already in the realm of science I believe.

nck

I used to be in the "evolution is flawed"...

2016-07-01T04:28:25.851+12:00

I used to be in the "evolution is flawed" camp but changed my mind. The watershed event for me was reading Dr. Francis Collins' book "The Language of God." Collins is a doctor, a geneticist, a Christian and the Director of the National Institutes of Health. Collins points out that all living things on earth are genetically connected. We share a certain percentage of our genome with the genome of bananas. The concept that all fauna and flora developed via evolution from a single original primordial genome is supported.

For me, and maybe for the Beyond Today writers, the problem was that all the great diversity and complexity of life on earth seems to be beyond the capabilities of random mutation and natural selection. But guided and managed mutation is much more plausible and still uses evolution as the mechanism for development.

But in part, my view back then, was valid. The scope of my belief was just too broad. I concluded that evolution was an inadequate explanation for the existence of all fauna and flora. Actually, it is only inadequate as an explanation for the human mind. Dr. Thomas Nagel, in a recent book entitled "Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False" supports this view of the inadequacy of evolution and reductionism. Nagel is a professor at NYU in the department of philosophy. Nagel is also an atheist. He does not support the idea that God created the human mind, he just knows that evolution didn't. He argues for a better explanation.

That, briefly, is my own personal journey and I believe that the writers of Beyond Today are caught in a time warp. But it is comfortable there. You do not have to deal with hard issues concerning what is allegory and what is not in the Bible. Disbelieving evolution is not for the faithful man but for the lazy man.

https://www.ucg.org/user/kayleen-schreiber I thou...

2016-06-30T15:32:33.453+12:00

https://www.ucg.org/user/kayleen-schreiber

I thought this might have been Kay Schreiber, wife of UCG pastor Randy Schreiber, but it isn't. See link.

The non-experts at Beyond Today best not come into...

2016-06-30T13:38:46.440+12:00

The non-experts at Beyond Today best not come into the cross hairs of Anron Ra as Dave Pack did recently and had his butt handed him by someone who actually knew how to explain Evolution well and refute the bogus arguments of Dave Pack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isV9hWXpNjc&list=PLTGOEqezBf3F3ede-0lKxrLLq_ru9s920

2016-06-30T13:18:01.452+12:00

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