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Are these mutually exclusive?
Yes, they are. Evolution means that everything happened by chance, and that all live evolved from dead matter to a lower life form to a higher life form and eventually into humans over millions of years.
Creation means that God spoke everything into existence--except for the first two humans who He made with His own hands and breathed life into them. While there is such a thing as living things changing or adapting to its environment, that is not the same as evolution.
Are these mutually exclusive?
"theistic evolution" = Bible tells Who created life. Evolution tells how it was done.
A way to balance faith in God with what's being taught in our education systems and every other outlet with an agenda to weaken the faith of the unsuspecting.
Yes, they are. Evolution means that everything happened by chance, and that all live evolved from dead matter to a lower life form to a higher life form and eventually into humans over millions of years.
Incorrect. You need to study what evolution really is. Chance is NOT the driver. Natural selection is. Traits and mutations that prove beneficial to the survival of an organism is perpetuated by virtue of its beneficial nature.
Living matter from non-living matter is not evolution either. That is abiogenesis...a completely different topic.
Mutations by their very nature 'normally' harmful, many times producung "freaks"....
What causes the extra/additional DNA coding needed to mutate across specicies come from?
How did humans ALONE evolve a soul?
Why don't Great Apes have one?
So its accepting at face value the 'scientific facts/proofs" for evolution, but trying to keep God involved in it?
No, but I have wondered about a few people I have met. :laugh:Do those holding to theistic evolution here have consensus on this?
God had created animals the day before and so some common ancestor to man and ape may have been the "dust" God formed into man. Because many of the miracles described in the Bible are instantaneous, most of us assume God created man from scratch, rather than through theistic evolution.
Day-age old earth folks can use theistic evolution, where 6 24 hour day folks require instantaneous creative acts.
But at the end of the day, the Bible teaches, Job 38, we are without a clue as to exactly how God did it, all we really know is He did.
Some mutations are beneficial...some are not.
Across species is an artificial delineation. It happens very gradually until two populations can no longer interbreed and are eventually different species.
Souls are not in the study of science. By its nature, science deals with the natural world.
How do you know other great apes don't have one?
Can you give us an example of a beneficial mutation?
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There is no evidence that any mutation has ever changed a species so as to benefit it, NONE.
the shame is to believe false statements in your reading. there is no mutations that are benificial.It's a shame to be satisfied with ignorance rather than actually READ. :laugh: