tillingborn wrote:
Since snakes got mankind into trouble in the first place, what was Noah thinking letting so many different kinds onto his boat?
reasonvemotion wrote:A high level of biodiversity is imperative to all life on this earth and snakes have a part to play in this. With hindsight it was a wise choice it would seem.
So it would seem, but it would call for a very large ark.
reasonvemotion wrote:Evolutionists believe that by chance, a living organism can arise from nonliving matter.
Explain that.
Well, chance and a few billion years of chemistry, but I grant you, that is not a full explanation. Life is a very mysterious thing. You've probably heard of Henry Drummond, or at least his complaint about Christians appealing to a god of the gaps. His point was that there is nothing about science that proves the universe isn't the work of a god. As I have been trying to explain to others on this forum, with limited success it must be said, science is less about the underlying causes, that's metaphysics, and more about what is observable and repeatable. For all I know, science will reach a point of understanding when the only possible explanation for a given phenomenon, a gap in our knowledge, is that some god is playing silly buggers, but unless he or she pops out and says peek-a-boo, people will not stop looking for alternative explanations.
The purpose of science is not to prove there is no god, but what pisses off some scientists and none scientists for that matter, is the idea that being curious, wanting to understand and eating from the tree of knowledge is a bad thing. That and the insistence that people should be controlled, on the say so of a hypothesis for which there is no proof.