Re:46% dumber than rocks
Friday, July 20 2012 @ 02:13 PM CDT

Quote by: Ren-Tin-10 I am a Christian, but not a YEC-er. Even if you take the first two verses of Genesis very literally, it does not fix a maximum age to the Earth.

Good point. Kinda begs the question then.

Re:46% dumber than rocks
Friday, July 20 2012 @ 02:19 PM CDT

philosophy and physics summed up in one simple song!

dumb dumb, dumby dumb dumb doo doobee
come softly darling! hear what I say!

I got religion. and I been buked, i been scorned -- I been talked bout -- as sure as you born!!

"dimm" aka dumm witness :-)

Re:46% dumber than rocks
Friday, July 20 2012 @ 03:48 PM CDT

Quote by: Les_Kloo Quote by: Ren-Tin-10 I am a Christian, but not a YEC-er. Even if you take the first two verses of Genesis very literally, it does not fix a maximum age to the Earth. Good point. Kinda begs the question then.

Thanks for picking up on that, LK.

Wow! Up to 5 pages now. And that's without it devolving (pun intended) into an all-out flame war so far. Seems like we run the gamut when it comes to our views of origins.

Now I'm thinking about dino-dragons and thunderdactyls again. Could it be that our Native American forerunners were actual eyewitnesses to the presence of thunderbirds? Or did they dig up the bones while they were excavating their pueblos and cliff dwellings? Or is it just a figment of a fertile imagination? I don't know. I wasn't there. *wink*

Come to think of it, with all of the recycling, mass extinction, and mass repopulation evident in the geologic and fossil records, maybe both camps really are right. Maybe the Earth as a planet is quite old, but the Earth in its present form, with rhinos instead of triceratops and iguanas instead of T-Rexes, may be quite young.

Anyway, have a good weekend, and I hope to see you at Woodstock and Glastonbury this year. *grin*

Cheers,
Jim

Re:46% dumber than rocks
Friday, July 20 2012 @ 04:07 PM CDT

Quote by: Ren-Tin-10 Could it be that our Native American forerunners were actual eyewitnesses to the presence of thunderbirds? Or did they dig up the bones while they were excavating their pueblos and cliff dwellings? Or is it just a figment of a fertile imagination? I don't know. I wasn't there. *wink*

Hi Jim,
Perhaps the resident dragon should offer a suggestion? In doing research for this film, I found that *these* creatures led to the Thunderbird legends, and when you see the way they sun themselves, you can see the Thunderbird imagery, and it all makes sense. I even refer to "the original thunderbirds" in the film. Of course, birds did evolve from dinosaurs, so in a not-so-figurative sense, dragons do still fly among us :-)
ttfn,
Drakonis

Re:46% dumber than rocks
Saturday, July 21 2012 @ 01:09 AM CDT

Way cool video! Thanks for sharing!

Cheers,
Jim

Re:46% dumber than rocks
Saturday, July 21 2012 @ 09:47 AM CDT

Then again...

Luke 19:39-40
Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.” But Jesus answered, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!”

Re:46% dumber than rocks
Saturday, July 21 2012 @ 03:10 PM CDT

Quote by: Roxylee Then again... Luke 19:39-40 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.” But Jesus answered, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!”

Apparently, the 46% figure is way too low. *wink*

Thanks for sharing!

Cheers,
Jim

Re:46% dumber than rocks
Saturday, July 21 2012 @ 04:14 PM CDT

Re:46% dumber than rocks
Saturday, July 21 2012 @ 08:31 PM CDT

Quote by: Ren-Tin-10 Even if you take the first two verses of Genesis very literally

....you get into boatloads of trouble.



Victor.

Re:46% dumber than rocks
Sunday, July 22 2012 @ 05:02 PM CDT

Interesting. I am a christian, and I don't believe in the earth only being 10,000 years old. That doesn't make sense at all. Of course, on the other had, I also don't believe in the GTE (Grand Theory of Evolution), because that says there is not a God, which I don't agree with. I'm kinda in the middle.

Also, polls are bull.