The media does a horrible job! Everyone acts like Evolution is a proven fact in the media world...
You forget to read the rest of the Bible. Like if you read the first half of a math problem, and not the second half, you are likely to get the answer wrong.
Jer 31:31 "Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah
I found this on a Yahoo! Answers page:
First off, let me say that it is pretty nice that you found something on Yahoo Answers, yet you couldn’t provide the link! Way to pull that out of your @$$--allegedly.
Okay, with a statement as bold as the one you just made, I will assume you, at the very least, are taking an apologist view point in terms of Christianity.
And so that you don’t claim that I copied and pasted this argument, I will state that parts of the rebuttal have been taken from the following. However, I have adapted them to fit within the context of the debate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahi5FRd5geM&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_LaAx7bSm0&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r31w6kTp7NY&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYsnVMjG4lk&feature=PlayList&p=126AFB53A6F002CC&index=13
First, let’s give a legitimate definition for the word
theory…
…a plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to explain phenomena <the wave theory of light>
This definition doesn’t really vary that much no matter
where you search. Please note for this source, this first definition is considered the proper term for theory.
As for the difference in a fact and theory in the
scientific sense:
In the most basic sense, a scientific fact is an objective and verifiable observation; in contrast with a hypothesis or theory, which is intended to explain or interpret facts.
Evolution occurring is not debated and has not been debated for a century now. The only debate in regards of how it is occurring (for more, see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_LaAx7bSm0&feature=channel_page &
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r31w6kTp7NY&NR=1.) Yet, the media portrays it otherwise, as can be seen in some of my previous posts. As for evolution
not being observed or speciation not occuring, that too is also false.
Which way do you want to eat your BS—fast, or slow?
The argument that “You need to read both parts of the Bible to get the whole truth” is not only a fallacious statement, it is also a contradictory one as well. I will be using some quotes in the Bible to prove this so. And just so you don’t accuse me of “camping on one version of the Bible,” I will use multiple versions of it to debunk this claim.
One well known tenet of god is that there is perfection in him and his image, but don’t take my word for it. According to
Psalm 19:7:
The law of the LORD is perfect.
Additionally:
As well as this…:
For if justification…comes through…the Law, then Christ (the Messiah) died groundlessly and to no purpose and in vain. [His death was then wholly superfluous.]
Also confirmed in the new Testament as well in
John 1:17:
The Law was given by Moses, but Jesus Christ brought us undeserved kindness and truth.
I think you get the point.
Yet in one swoop, the law of the God is violated—through his own purported son no less!
From the famous story of
John 8: 2-11:
Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. 3The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst 4they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 5Nowin the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?" 6This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 7And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her." 8And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground.9But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 10Jesus stood up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" 11She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said,”Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more."
Yet in
Leviticus 20:10,
Deuteronomy 17:7, &
Deuteronomy 22:22, respectively :
If a man commits adultery with the wife of an Israelite, both he and the woman shall be put to death.
The witnesses' hands are to be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. You must purge the evil from you.
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
So much for reading both parts and getting an absolute truth…
Picking and choosing which parts of the Bible to believe isn’t a right given to you, especially if the word of God is given to you in an absolute fashion. Also,
Pascal’s wager comes into play, because you could also be wrong about your God being the right one. In short, which case for John 8 do you think is right? Even though this post wasn’t made to discuss religion, it is good that someone brought it up, as religion often seems to cloud peoples’ minds on the issue of science.
I normally wouldn’t do this for a closing, but this is worth it. Three years ago, an image was burned to my mind that exhibited such pure ownage that I had to find it to fully described how well I debunked your argument.
Well, here you go:
