> Floyd wrote:
> > "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message
news:<c1q5ag$pvb$0@pita.alt.net>...
> >
> >>news:earle.jones-ED8BC4.10513827022004@netnews.comcast.net...
> >>
> >>>In article <b9b3de8.0402270533.6080f790@posting.google.com>,
> >>> branchofjesse@hotmail.com (Jerzy Jakubowski) wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>eros_talk_origins@hotmail.com (Eros) wrote in message
> >>>>news:<ab0de77f.0402262024.16c3ac25@posting.google.com>...
> >>>>
> >>>>>"Jason Gastrich" <newsgroups@jcsm.org> wrote in message
> >>>>>news:<Le__b.2503$Bb5.698@twister.socal.rr.com>...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Snowbird wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Jason Gastrich wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>Even if all of those quotes were fabrications or exaggerations,
> >>
> >> it
> >>
> >>>>>>>>still wouldn't help the theory of evolutionism any.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>There is no theory of evolutionism. You are not doing Christians
> >>
> >> any
> >>
> >>>>>>>favours by parroting nonsense like this.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> > On its own merits, it
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>requires tons of faith.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Since when has tonnes of evidence required faith?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> > It requires belief in things that have never been
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>seen or proven.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Apart from that fact that this is false, doesn't your faith in God
> >>>>>>>require belief in things never seen or proven?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> > This quote rabbit trail is a convenient somescreen for the
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>ones that don't want to confess that there is precious little
> >>>>>>>>evidence for the theory of evolutionism.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>1) There is no theory of evolutionism.
> >>>>>>>2) Even if there were, it would be different from the theory of
> >>>>>>>*evolution*. 3) There is a huge mountain of evidence for
> >>
> >> evolution.
> >>
> >>>>>>>Creationists just deny it.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>It's sad that you can't see the true beauty and reality of
> >>
> >> creation.
> >>
> >>>>>>Yeah, believing I have a common ancestor with a banana and came from
> >>
> >> a
> >>
> >>>>>>rock.
> >>>>>>Now that's true beauty and reality! Not.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Jason
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Yeah, it's much better to believe you have a common ancestor with
> >>>>>nothingness and came from a pile of dirt, like the Bible says. Now
> >>>>>that's true beauty and reality! Not.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>EROS.
> >>>>
>
>>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >>>>>--
> >>>>>"The next day..., Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree
> >>>>>in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it,
> >>>>>he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.
> >>>>>Then he said to the tree, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again."
> >>>>>... In the morning..., they saw the fig tree withered from the roots.
> >>>>>Peter ... said to Jesus, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree ... has
> >>>>>withered!"" -- Mark 11:12-14, 20-21 (NIV)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Points to remember:-
> >>>>>Jesus was hungry.
> >>>>>He looked for figs on a tree.
> >>>>>But it was not fig season.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Questions to ponder:-
> >>>>>If it wasn't fig season, why would even a moron look for figs?
> >>>>>Is talking to a tree and then killing it for not bearing fruit out of
> >>>>>season a reasonable response, by any standard?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Don't worry about the tree, the LORD was just making a point. Worry
> >>
> >> about
> >>
> >>>>your soul.
> >>>>
> >>>>Uncle Davey
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>*
> >>>Why don't you explain the Lord's point, Uncle Davey. He walks up to a
> >>>fig tree out of season and is obviously pissed and begins to talk to
> >>>the tree: "May no one ever eat fruit from you again."
> >>>
> >>>And the poor tree withers and dies.
> >>>
> >>>Now, Davey, please explain the point.
> >>>
> >>>earle
> >>>*
> >>>
> >>
> >>The point is that we should bear fruit.
> >>
> >>What's the Greek again? "Hekaston dendron ek tou idiou karpou
gignosketai".
> >>
> >>Uncle Davey.
> >
> >
> > Mammals should bear fruit? Hair, fine. Milk, some of us, sometimes.
> > But *fruit*???
> >
>
> Hey, for creation "science" literally *anything* is possible! :-)
>
> Seppo P.
>
>
We are talking about fruit in it's figurative sense, presumably.
If a literal meaning is plainly impossible, it must be true only on the
figurative level.
Uncle Davey
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