Making waves (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, June 16, 2013, 15:19 (3984 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

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> Tony: 26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.-This is the key. One specific variety of being has dominion over all. The ancient writers knew how special we are. Morphologically we look like apes. Sort of. They are not upright. They cannot use their hands as we do. And they cannot think as we do. Grouping us with them as primates makes no sense. They are primates, we are humans, but since the word primate means top of the heap, we should be in a separate group, called primates,and they should be given a new name; perhaps 'simians'
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> Tony:It does NOT say he created the Tucan and the cockatoo. it says he created the winged fowl after its kind. It certainly allows for change, simply not changing between species. No common descent. Further, evolutionist tend to change the definition based on who they are arguing. If debating a christian, they will claim that evolution only asserts 'change' not common decent. The bible is not anti-change, nor is it anti-common decent as long as the common decent is limited to families of creatures. Divergence from one species to another has never been observed, and the bible is against that particular train of thought.-Tony, you point out that the bible favors punctuated equilibrium but apply it to large families. The fossil history suggests that point of view.