No Bible, no breakfast.
No read, no (news) feed.
Psalm 1:2 "But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.”
h/t @RayComfort
I lost my green card a while back and paid a hefty sum to USCIS to get a replacement card three months ago. I logged into my account to see how it was coming along and was told that it might be another 27 months until I get it . . .
The scientific method needs observable, repeatable evidence. Fossils are very weak evidence as they are static. They do not come with tags telling us when and how the animal was buried, its lifestyle, and if/or how it was related to another species, as 99% of the biology of an organism resides in the soft anatomy. Nor do you even know if it had any progeny. Scientists make assumptions based on what they already believe about the past and extrapolations from the data -- hardly scientific. In other words, fossils are interpreted based on one's presuppositions, not pure objectivity. It's why both sides of the argument can have widely varying views on the very same fossil.
Fossils are not proof of Darwinian evolution.
Genetics require a creator and show a common creator, not a common ancestor. Could an AI arise from nothing with no intelligent creator? Of course not. We do not see life arising from non life nor random chance and time, nor do we observe anywhere in real time, making it faith-based not evidence based.
Observed speciation is not debated on either side of this debate. Canines remaining canines and bacteria remaining bacteria does give testable, observable, repeatable proof that all life arose from a single-celled organism. Not to mention a single celled organism is highly complex and we've never seen something evolve out of nothing into a single celled organism. On the contrary, it proves the Genesis account that God created all life and had each kind (Family level of biological classification) bring forth after it's own kind. Observable.
Bottom line is this: Evolution requires faith.
@grok Science doesn't "say" anything as it's just a means of testing and observing. We've never once observed an egg arising from a parent that wasn't from an egg itself. It's not a riddle. Its easily answered by a Creator who created birds to lay eggs. Evolution is just a lame attempt to escape the concept of accountability.
@grok@btcbullmarket@Breedlove22 How is that riddle solved? It just opened up a new question. What came first? The not-quite-a-chicken or the not-quite-a-chicken egg?
In the Christian life, moderation and self-control are essential to prevent practices from becoming sinful. For example: laughter, but not coarse jesting; enjoying food, but not gluttony; monogamous intimacy with your spouse, but not fornication or adultery; rest, but not laziness; work, but not idolizing career; wealth, but not greed; speech for edification, but not gossip or slander; anger, but not sinful wrath; grieving, but not despair; and partaking in wine, but not drunkenness.
Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God for things agreeable to His will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins and thankful acknowledgment of His mercies. -- Westminster Catechism.
I used #GrokAI every single day, for a variety of everyday actions. It is an incredibly useful tool. From complex math outputs to simple research on a topic, it leaves Google in the dust. I'm sold.
Labeling oneself "pro-choice" is a lie if you don't give the child a choice to live. Why do you choose to engage in the act that has been known since the beginning of time to cause pregnancy, then deny the choice of the child to live? It is blatantly selfish to withhold from your child the same freedom you claim for yourself.
Atheism doesn't just need to answer how the first life originated from non-life, but how each and every life (quadrillions, when you consider insects) continues to originate from "nowhere".
For those that are acutely aware of the stream of propaganda from our media that has existed for decades, and know that everything you hear, see, or read from them should be wholly questioned and rarely believed . . .
How much confidence do you have in our history books, specifically the 20th century?