Update on "Ida" - not ancestor-link at all

[ConScience]

My apologies. I will stand down.

Shiloh - we're all in agreement on Ida - we should be high-fiving!

[MorningGlory]

My apologies. I will stand down.

Shiloh - we're all in agreement on Ida - we should be high-fiving!

This thread got so far O.T.....did I miss something about the Ida fossil?

[spiritman]

Why wasn't Lazarus interviewed about his experience?

The CNN news team was busy at the Wailing Wall?

[Fez]

Why wasn't Lazarus interviewed about his experience?

The CNN news team was busy at the Wailing Wall?

Those old oil burning video cameras were not too reliable as well!

[MorningGlory]

Why wasn't Lazarus interviewed about his experience?

The CNN news team was busy at the Wailing Wall?

Those old oil burning video cameras were not too reliable as well!

[MorningGlory]

while a quote dog is a kind, it is a technicality to point out that all dogs belong to the same species, and each species of dog belong to the dog kind.

Ha ha I think I get now.

There is only one species of dog. And what's a 'quote dog'?

[MorningGlory]

Why wasn't Lazarus interviewed about his experience?

The CNN news team was busy at the Wailing Wall?

Those old oil burning video cameras were not too reliable as well!

You know, making jokes instead of answering a question doesn't mean the question is ridiculous, it means you don't know. Clearly, I don't mean interviewed in the sense of today. If Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, wouldn't it help his cause (and in turn yours) if the Bible had the first hand account of Lazarus' experience? Having other people "witness" this miracle and talk about it is not good enough. Why wouldn't Lazarus have said anything? Was he shy? Jesus just raised him from the dead and he couldn't say or do anything at all that would help his buddy out in his claim to be the son of god? Its suspicious.

And what about the boy? It says in the Bible that after he was raised from the dead he was speaking. What was he saying? I'm assuming that the first words of a person that's been miraculously raised from the dead would be important.

Well, pardon the levity but, frankly, this thread can use some.

As to why Lazarus wasn't interviewed and his words recorded...how can anyone know that? Anything we said today would be conjecture. And, FYI, Jesus never tried to prove His deity...He didn't ask anyone to stand up for Him. He stood for US, C.C., and that includes you.

[spiritman]

Hi, I don't think I know you, but nice to meet you. I would like to take this time to stop any misconceptions about exactly what we believe and don't believe in terms of Evolution.

The reason I'm saying this is because i've seen several misunderstandings, and by looking at your comment, you seem to fall into this category.

I point to your statement above that says that Christianity will be proved wrong than that evolution through natural selection. First off the differences between Micro-Evolution,

and Macro-evolution.

Micro-Evolution : is small changes to an organism brought on by environment ( like that which occurred on the island where Darwin set foot and found the finches to have different beaks); you can also refer to this as natural selection. Hereditary ( like for example two brown eyed parents having a blued eyed daughter)The gene for the blue eyes can lay dormant for a few generations, then all of a sudden show up. The gene for the blue eyes was always present, so no new information was added to the DNA; or breeding; ( a pickapoo,a , Pekingese with a poodle ).

Now let me introduce to you the difference between a Kind, and a species. One kind is a dog, another is a cat, another is a chimp.

Species: One species is a poodle, it kind is dog. another is a tabby cat, its kind is cat another is a Pygmy chimp, it's kind is chimp.

All the examples above are examples of Mirco-evolution. christians do not have a problem with this. However we do not believe in Macro-evolution.

This is brief: For example: a common ancestor, changing into a man. Unless you can show us an air tight transitional fossil, of one Kind changing into another.

Here are some of the reasons why evolution just doesn't work

1. One of the Big reasons why Macro-evolution is impossible scientifically; is that the DNA only has that information necessary to build the organism it's assigned to. For example the DNA only holds just the right amount and the right information to build a chimp; if it were to build a human, it would have had to have had more information added, even over a long period of time. It just isn't done.

2. Most of the Transitional forms found have either proven to be fakes or mistakes, there is no air tight argument for transitional forms.

3. all the scientific methods of measuring dates are flawed. They are full of assumptions, and can't be proven because there is no historical science to back them up.

One small correction - all dogs are the same species, Canis familiaris, be they pug, poodle or pomeranian.

Ruffus,

I want to apologize, I checked my earlier posts and found out that is the definition I used, I was in the wrong, thank you.

[spiritman]

while a quote dog is a kind, it is a technicality to point out that all dogs belong to the same species, and each species of dog belong to the dog kind.

Ha ha I think I get now.

There is only one species of dog. And what's a 'quote dog'?

I didn't think I used the definition incorrectly, but on checking my past replies I see in fact I did, thank you for the correction, add I can't spell to that list of short comings as well

[spiritman]

When I talk about say a Kind, like a dog for example; most people on here apparently refer to a dog as a species, neither is wrong both are right. kind is simply another way of saying species.

I must point out that sometimes I get confused on this point. but; just to clear it up so that no newbie will get confused a poodle or pug is a variation within a kind or what others on here are calling a species. the tech term for species that Rufus used:Canis familiaris, means all dogs; variation or not. I'm going to go back and edit my posts that say other wise again sorry for the confusion.