Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:
So you are now telling me what I meant?
Oy vey....
That's the ticket, just tell a person that you know what they meant...ya that's it...that's the way to win.
Bwaaaahaaaahaaahahaahahahahahaaaa!!!
Brilliant!!! Brilliant!!!
It's real simple: either you were lying then, or you're lying now. Either you misrepresented your position before, because everyone took away from your statement that you intended "materialization from pure potentiality" to mean instantaneous appearance of Man on Earth from the Mind of God. Or, you're misrepresenting your position now, so as to not have to be held to your former explanation, because that explanation is unsustainable, except with resort to invocation of magical powers to cause creation.
That's too bad, really. I would have far more respect for you if you had simply admitted that you believe that God does do miracles and that you believe Darwinism to be lunacy, not because of any lack of science, but merely because your faith tells you that it cannot be.
Instead, you choose to try to rationalize your beliefs based on creation as fact and evolution as fiction, without any facts to support your conclusion.
In this, I suggest that you consider that nononsense is a far more worthy debater, and a far more honest person, both with himself and others. He, at least knows the difference between science and faith, and isn't afraid to suggest that his faith may necessitate his dispensing with science where the two conflict.
No one can ever prove that there was an antediluvian era, or that Moses parted the Red Sea, or any of the other manner of wonders ascribed to Biblical history. But, that doesn't mean that they didn't happen.
So, if you want to believe that there's an all powerful intelligent energy force that controls and permeates all matter and energy, and that Man instantaneously materialized in a puff of smoke from the pure potentiality of God's mind, well you should, and I think that's a very noble ideal.
It's just not scientific, that's all. So, stop trying to say that your theology is science, and stop calling people who try to do science, lunatics, because they're no more lunatic than you.
What you're doing is injuring others, because you're erecting a strawman that creates a huge amount of conflict and physical violence in our world.
Debates over whose God is God, or when life begins and ends are the stuff that wars and murders are made of, and you're exacerbating things by causing confusion in the minds of people who cannot follow the logic, but who can feel the emotional content of your words.
Give science its due, and reasonable scientists will give your theology its due in return. Call the scientist, or anyone who doesn't believe as you believe (regressives, etc.), lunatics and you inflame hostility and that hostility will be breathed out into the world in other ways.
And, you will be partly responsible.
But, maybe you just don't give a shit. Maybe, what you really want to do is just vent your hostility here and annoy and harass as many people as possible, because it makes you feel powerful in your own world.
If so, you should think about that, because in the end you are injuring yourself, others, and even your own, supposedly godly belief system. If you're an "Eastern" thinker, then you seem to prefer Western style adversarial argumentation. I doubt that this is really compatible with your theology.
But, as you say, I don't "know" what you think, I merely observe the result of that thinking here. And, what I observe is pretty self contradictory.
In fact, in this particular instance, you have pretty much just admitted to being a liar -- either in your prior post or in your current explanation of it.
Is that really how you want to be viewed by others?
