Apologist

How many people on here are from the Indianapolis, IN area.

People always want to rush through life and not stop and count the many blessings and friends and love ones that they have all around them. And then when those friens and loved ones are gone, then they realize how special those people are in their lives and they regret so much that they didnt say or didnt do, because it is to late to correct the wrong. We all take time our for a moment of silence, for our Troops (God Bless them), and for those that have lost their lives for our country, but we never take a moment and sit back and think and realize how special someone is in our life, or how that person has made us feel in the past and the good that they have brought into our lives. I Challenge all who read this, to stop for a few minutes and think about all the important people in ur life, and realize how much u love them and how much they love u, and send them an email telling them thanks for just being there when u needed them. God Bless you alll.....

How can a pool of mud or whatever create a life form that evolves into the complex biological makeup of the human body over thousands of years, because the make up of the body is to complex to just come out of chaos.

Ok who do you think you are following Christians? God did not send you here to bash people, and destroy people with your rude and self-centerd remarks, we as Christians ar enot suppose to judge, but we are to love and show compassion, and not hate, James says that if you hate your Brother then the love of the Father is not in you, yes we are suppose to wittness and tell people what the Bible says, but we are not suppose to destroy them, you guys that are doing that are acting like the religious people of Jesus' day that HE rebuked and called vipers, you need to repent and show love and compassion and not hate, and apologize to those that you have offended....

When your mahded, I think is how it might be spelled if not please forgive, but anyways when he comes back what will he be riding on and who will be with him....

Have u seen the movie "one night with the king"? And if u have what did u thnk of it?

U know it seems like u guys, dont study nothing, u might read one or two books and then think u know it all on here, and then u start bashing Christians, why is that so.

From The Myth of Natural Origins; How Science Points to Divine Creation

Ashby Camp, Ktisis Publishing, Tempe, Arizona, 1994, pp. 53-57, used by permission.

Even on a theoretical level, it does not seem possible for mutations to account for the diversity of life on earth, at least not in the time available. According to Professor Ambrose, the minimum number of mutations necessary to produce the simplest new structure in an organism is five (Davis, 67-68; Bird, 1:88), but these five mutations must be the proper type and must affect five genes that are functionally related. Davis, 67-68. In other words, not just any five mutations will do. The odds against this occurring in a single organism are astronomical.

Mutations of any kind are believed to occur once in every 100,000 gene replications (though some estimate they occur far less frequently). Davis, 68; Wysong, 272. Assuming that the first single-celled organism had 10,000 genes, the same number as E. coli (Wysong, 113), one mutation would exist for every ten cells. Since only one mutation per 1,000 is non-harmful (Davis, 66), there would be only one non-harmful mutation in a population of 10,000 such cells. The odds that this one non-harmful mutation would affect a particular gene, however, is 1 in 10,000 (since there are 10,000 genes). Therefore, one would need a population of 100,000,000 cells before one of them would be expected to possess a non-harmful mutation of a specific gene.

The odds of a single cell possessing non-harmful mutations of five specific (functionally related) genes is the product of their separate probabilities. Morris, 63. In other words, the probability is 1 in 108 X 108 X 108 X 108 X 108, or 1 in 1040. If one hundred trillion (1014) bacteria were produced every second for five billion years (1017 seconds), the resulting population (1031) would be only 1/1,000,000,000 of what was needed!

But even this is not the whole story. These are the odds of getting just any kind of non-harmful mutations of five related genes. In order to create a new structure, however, the mutated genes must integrate or function in concert with one another. According to Professor Ambrose, the difficulties of obtaining non-harmful mutations of five related genes "fade into insignificance when we recognize that there must be a close integration of functions between the individual genes of the cluster, which must also be integrated into the development of the entire organism." Davis, 68.

In addition to this, the structure resulting from the cluster of the five integrated genes must, in the words of Ambrose, "give some selective advantage, or else become scattered once more within the population at large, due to interbreeding." Bird, 1:87. Ambrose concludes that "it seems impossible to explain [the origin of increased complexity] in terms of random mutations alone." Bird, 1:87.

When one considers that a structure as "simple" as the wing on a fruit fly involves 30-40 genes (Bird, 1:88), it is mathematically absurd to think that random genetic mutations can account for the vast diversity of life on earth. Even Julian Huxley, a staunch evolutionist who made assumptions very favorable to the theory, computed the odds against the evolution of a horse to be 1 in 10300,000. Pitman, 68. If only more Christians had that kind of faith!

The Cosmological Argument attempts to prove that God exists by showing that there cannot be an infinite number of regressions of causes to things that exist. It states that there must be a final uncaused-cause of all things. This uncaused-cause is asserted to be God.

The Cosmological Argument takes several forms, but is basically represented below.

Cosmological Argument

Things exist.

It is possible for those things to not exist.

Whatever has the possibility of non existence, yet exists, has been caused to exist.

Something cannot bring itself into existence, since it must exist to bring itself into existence, which is illogical.

There cannot be an infinite number of causes to bring something into existence.

An infinite regression of causes ultimately has no initial cause, which means there is no cause of existence.

Since the universe exists, it must have a cause.

Therefore, there must be an uncaused cause of all things.

The uncaused cause must be God.

Can U argue?

Could u pls tell me what a theophony is?

Could u give me 2 names of God in the Old Testament, and their definition.

This is not a typical question, compared to my other ones, however, I have to know the answers to these questions: Should a Christian date someone who claims to be a Christian, but does not go to church, does not drink, smoke or the like, but does cuz and not read the Bible or pray. Two, how could a man romance a lady in todays world without a dinner and movie,(so worn out), and how do u know when God has sent u the right help-mate? Pls be honest and polite, this is a serious question, I am seeking guidence on it. Thank You

What is your relationship to the following Persons: The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit, pls define each one indivdually...

Can u describe the Trinity for me, and give me atleast 5 verses on the subject?

What is the Biblical concept and teaching on Marriage?

Can u tell me the Spiritual meaning behind why a woman bleeds the first time that she has intercourse?

When and how often should a Christian pray?

If you were to die today, and stand before God to be judged what would He say about your life and your thought life?

Did the disciples of Jesus Christ receive His spirit before thy went into Jers. to tarry and wait on the Promise from the Father?

Could you qoute Proverbs 4:23 and give me a translation of it and what it says to u....