No it wasn't genius, they weren't concerned with that level of geography when the Bible was composed...

ooo ur right, so that was b4 they were even dumb enough to think that

Actually the Bible was Breathed and Inspired by God and put on paper by man. Nowhere in the Bible does it refer that the "Earth was flat". That was man's concept and wasn't written into the Bible due to the Bible being God's Word. If you want, please read the Bible and see if you can find any reference to a flat Earth. I know you can't but you may be able to learn about God and see how much He loves you and wants you to know Him.

Well well. Is there any proof that God exists at all? Is there any proof that the Earth is more 6,000 years old instead of 4 billion? No. In fact, they say that God supposedly created the other stars and planets to show his majesty or something like that. If thats so, then why did they discover bacterial life forms on Mars? That means at one point, Mars supported life, and may even have had advanced life, long ago.

Actually, I just googled that information and the "bacterial life" they found is being debated. The only reference I could find was concerning a meteor from Mars found in the antarctic. It had some possible indications that bacteria could have existed, but they aren't sure if it was from contamination from the Earth itself as the same bacteria are found on this planet. They did find fatty deposits, but the shape of those deposits indicated contamination from our environment. So your information is still based on a theory. Being a Christian is a choice that I have made in my life and Yes, I do believe that God exists and that he created all things, including me. For every scientist that says he has proof that God doesn't exist, another shows proof that some superior logic does exist that created life. Even Darwin in his later life declared his "Theory of Evolution" highly implausible due to the complexity of living creatures. He was especially confused about the development of the eye, since evolution tends to lead towards simplification and the eye contradicts all of his theories. Feel free to look into anything that I have said, because I did before I said it. God gave us free will because he wants us to hear everything, discern what we believe, and freely choose to accept him or not. I step out in faith that I don't know everything about my creator, but know that I was created. This world is way to complex to believe it all happened by chance. If evolution is true and we evolved from primates, why are there still primates? If the "base" of our evolution exists and the outcome of that process exists (us), where are the intermediate forms and why do they not exist also? Science is a wonderful thing, but using theories as fact is incorrect until proven, and they have proven nothing. With every "discovery", they have to change their own theoris and timelines. God has never changed and everything in the Bible proves itself again and again. God flooded the Earth, and we find ships and proof of prior sea life existing on top of mountains. Historical documentation of Jesus' existence is annotated even by people who did not write the Bible. You can choose to accept flawed theories or accept those that have not been proven false, again, of your own free will. God does love you and wants you to accept his Son as your Savior and I want the same thing. At the same time, it must be a decision that you make and there is relatively nothing I can do or say that will lead you to do this. I simply tell you what I believe and let you examine your own heart and see what you believe. Notice that nowhere in my opinion do I demean you or insult you or state in any way that you are of lesser value than I am. Please be as considerate for my opinion as I have been for your.

"evolution tends to lead towards simplification"? You understand nothing at all of evolution. Evolution is the explanation of why whe have such complex creatures today, it provides a mechanism to go from simplicity to complexity. That's the whole base of evolution. Intermediate forms? Evolution is not a stair, it's continuous, every specie is a intermediate form between it's ancesters and what will evolve from them. You are one, me too. Having that said, despite tha fact that squeletons are rarely well preserved through time we have a very large collections of fossiles that illustrate the "transitions" between species, in other words, the evolutionary history of life. Go to your local museum, they should have replicas. Go to the large museums if you want to see the originals. Why are there still primates? Because we didn't evolved from the monkeys we see today, they evolved too, from a common ancester betweeen boths species. We share over 90% of our DNA with chimpancees. We just took a different evolutionary path than them, but we are still very much close species. For more information over the evidence for evolution and the false scientific claims of creationist go to http://en.wikipedia.or... http://en.wikipedia.or... http://en.wikipedia.or...

What I find funny Shaun, is that you stated that Joseph was working all based on theory, when you are indeed working on theory as well, because, other than the faith their followers have, we have no indication, or rather no solid proof, that deities do exist. So, lets just chalk it all up to Theory, cause that is what everything boils down to in the end, theory, belief and opinion. ::smile for the camera::

I am a Christian. I believe in evolution. Is this contradictory? Not necessarily. We have evidence that evolution exists. Over the past century, people have gotten taller and stronger. A few hundred years ago, being 5ft tall was an acheovement. Dinosaurs have similar skeletal structures to chickens. But we also have proof of god. It isn't nearly as quantifiable, but it is all the more amazing for it. For example, Helen Keller knew, before anyone on earth had begun to explain it to her, all about god. She said(signed) "why are you telling me this? I already knew that."

Does the fact that Adam and eve were human mean that they looked and acted like us? No. Did God ever do anything to stop evolution? Ever? No. Why should he? I believe that God placed a set of animals on Earth that continually evolved and still evolves.

We have sin because man has free will and is imperfect. Had God made us perfect, we would have no choice to believe and love and that defeats the purpose. The point of faith is believing even if others don't. It isn't faith if you didn't choose to believe. All humans have doubts. If I recall correctly, this includes Jesus. As human beings, we are entitled to our opinion, and we are predisposed to disagree with anyone who thinks differently than us. I believe that no theory or opinion concerning religion is entirely correct, and even the bible itself leaves much to be desired in terms of interpretation. Why? I think it is to force us to find our own way. I think that we need to take proof of multiple theories and combine them.

For example, how can something, scientifically, come from nothing. It is impossible. There must be some higher power at work here.

BUT, we have evolution, abd, as eregebe pointed out, we have plenty of prof for that.

It is a matter of percrprion. If you want them to nullify each other, they can, easily. But they font have to. Try thinking about this. Creationalism vs. Evolution is only one ofe the many god vs. Science debates. Not any more, though.

Please feel free to disagree with me. I can't combine opinions if I only have my own.

"Even Darwin in his later life declared his 'Theory of Evolution' highly implausible due to the complexity of living creatures."
- Shaun
ok, and his reasons for thinking that have been disproven with evidence that we have found. now, you can look for it yourself, i don't care. i am just saying that saying something like that is irrelevant. also, i am a little rusty on Darwin's quotes, but i don't remember him ever using the word "implausible" to describe evolution.

In the book of Isaiah 40:22
the bible does speak of the earth as spherical so Yes this demotivational poster is retarded because i dont remember a sphere's dimension resembling a compact disc.....

Reread your Second law of thermodynamics. All things go from Order to Chaos. So in a chaotic environment something new was created? We go from simple to advanced? Please this is ridiculous. And anyone that takes Theory of Evolution as gospel you belong beside every Harry Potter book burning Christian Moron out there. It is a theory, and like any theory as of Science of right now, unproven. Bring me some missing links in the evolutionary chain and I might amend my world view. You can not say that there should not be any intermediate states either. So all life was created at the same time and started to evolve then as well. You sound like you believe in my God. The whole theory of evolution rests on there was one original that branched and each time it branched it grew into a niche environment. Now you say everything started out as lesser versions of what they are now. So each species came from where exactly. Go all or nothing. I can not respect a fence sitter.

its funny because even if they lack basic geography skills they still believed in loads of ridiculous things, after all they wrote the bible. And yes it is ridiculous. Prove me wrong.

Ummm no it wasn't i dont get....