Do You "Believe" In The Bible At All? (page 4)

catbert

Yosemite is home to 90 species of mammals in seven orders, including marsupials, insectivores, bats, lagomorphs, rodents, carnivores and hooved animals.
There are 9 species of chipmunk at Yosimite. With those little legs, it was a long walk for them from the ark...

Sunnygal41

There are 9 species of chipmunk at Yosimite. With those little legs, it was a long walk for them from the ark...

LOL...........cute comment..........evokes quite a mind picture~

Terry

I think about the "original" amoeba.

It split.

The split split.

The splits split.

Geometric progression ad infinitum.

Does this mean that any old ameoba you find any old where IS the original ameoba?

minimus

Huh, Terry??

Sunnygal41

Huh, Terry??

Mini, I would hazard a guess that Terry is making the analogy with the amoeba to the bible and how the "original" thoughts written by "God" if ever existing, have been so split and watered down by time and copying...........

Terri

minimus

Terri, thanks for the concise explanation. (He shoulda just said that).

lonelysheep

NO

gaiagirl

Re: ameobas- The cellular body material of the ameoba wears out and must be replaced, similar to other animals. This is part of why animals eat (also to provide energy for life processes). So, even within its own lifetime, an ameoba replaces all the material in its body as it wears out or is broken down to provide energy. Additionally, ameobas evolve just like everything else. At the University of Tennessee biology lab, ameobas exposed to a fatal virus have been observed to evolve within a few generations into a new strain which incorporates the virus in a symbiotic relationship which is beneficial for both the ameoba and the virus. So, existing ameobas have some of the same genetic material, but none of the original proteins which make up their body material as the originals. Rather, they are copies, improved in some ways, of the original ameobas.

trevor

Do You “Believe” In The Bible At All?

This is a rather strange and ambiguous question. The Bible is referred to as a reference book but does it live up to the criteria that is required of a reference book?

I ‘believe’ in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, in as much as the information it contains is accurate. That is accurate in terms of our present understanding of Science and the world we live in. It is factual and informative. It makes no attempt to persuade or assert anything that is not fact. It’s references to unproven phenomena are just reports. It does not command its reader to act in a certain way. It does not threaten or offer reward.

What does belief in a book entail beyond an objective acceptance that it’s entire contents are presented in an consistent unbiased and factual way?

Perhaps I am being too analytical and that does not sit well with belief!

LittleToe

Thousands of people believe in the DaVinci Code, and so far none to their detriment. Why must belief subsist wholey on "proven" facts? Humans aren't consistent, period.

While many have absorbed the intellectual viri / memes of our time and adapted, others have been exposed to different kinds. Are we really so bigotted as to believe that our own individual mental adaptation is the most perfect?

Folks take from the bible [or any other communication] what is needful for themselves. Why knock them for it?

LT, of the "live and let live" class

Do You "Believe" In The Bible At All?

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