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To: Brumar89 who wrote (17941)	11/22/2011 11:51:01 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

OR... an eagle is just about to swoop down and sink its long talons into you in a death vice grip and carry you off for dinner ...or bear or tiger hiding in the bush to deadly stinging biting insects or snakes . Nor just from that which moves are there threats but there are poisoness plants which if eaten cause painful death and most of the time you would be half startving . Just a trip down to the water source and you could be eaten , death & threat everywhere . Not only do mortal threats to the body or tribe come from without , there are illnesses & disease that rise from a myriad of reasons out of nowhere & strike without notice , again agonizing death & helplessness ...or parasites within that killed slowy . The there are the elements & raw nature herself , draught, thunder lightning flood. freezing cold . Most of what you call "you" and the consciousness you possess comes out of ages of slow transformations where those individuals dealing with these daily threats from being eaten to extended painful dying agonies over & over again , life was never a garden of eden for 10's of 1000's of generations of our ancestors . Those pains & hurts were terrible & there was no science to allieviate pain , deaths were often excruciating , festering , rotting deaths . Repeated a million times over and multiplied thru countless millenia of generations and they have the fosssil record to prove that . Larmarckism? You do know what you call someone who has all the simple answers ? A Pharisee ...

To: Brumar89 who wrote (17941)	11/23/2011 2:05:03 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

"Thank God for Evolution" ...don't you want to be on the leading edge of faith ? Endorsed by 6 wise noble prize winners & we know you really want to, you can do it if you try ! evolutionarychristianity.com My girlfriend has this bumper sticker on her car , she is an anthropologist , Evolution is God talking to you : ****************************************************************************************************************** " Evolution Isn’t About Darwin; It’s About Salvation Before You Die** " By no longer opposing evolution but wholeheartedly embracing it as The Great Story of 14 billion years of divine grace and creativity (and by appreciating the fact that, if your ancestors didn’t have the very same instincts you sometimes find challenging, you wouldn’t exist), you can have a more intimate relationship with God and a more joyous life than ever before. (See: “ Evolution Isn’t About Darwin; It’s About Salvation Before You Die“) These are not the End Times for humanity, they are just the beginning. We know this from the fossil record and from careful observation of the cosmos. Studying evolution is like following cosmic breadcrumbs home to God. Dinosaur bones and prehistoric artifacts, Hubble space photos and DNA are here to teach us faith, not test it. If this isn’t good news, I don’t know what is. God didn’t stop revealing truth vital to human wellbeing back when people believed the world was flat and religious insights were recorded on animal skins. God is still communicating faithfully today, publicly, through the worldwide, self-correcting scientific enterprise. Facts are God’s native tongue! Historical, cross-cultural, and scientific evidence is how God is speaking to humanity as a whole. Until we recognize billions of years (not just thousands of years) of grace and guidance, we will remain stuck with abstract and trivial concepts of God, morally confusing and divisive notions of scripture, and unnatural and competitive understandings of religion.