[Basilissa]

Re: Sharks disprove evolution!

According to Mark, to me it is all done in parables: Mark 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:

But a question remains, was Jotham a politician?

If by "politician" you mean "a person who simplifies stuff out so the dumb masses can understand him" (= "a person who speaks in parables"), then the answer is yes.

Anyway, if you bothered to actually read that Judges verse in context, you would have known that Jotham was not a politician (in the dictionary meaning of that word), but an innocent member of the 1%, mercilessly persecuted by the 99% (of course, God eventually punished these ungodly 99%, Judges 9:57).

[Roland]

Re: Sharks disprove evolution!

It's called a parable, dear. You can look it up in a dictionary.

According to Mark, to me it is all done in parables: Mark 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:

But a question remains, was Jotham a politician?

[Basilissa]

Re: Sharks disprove evolution!

So Jotham lied to the men of Shechem, gave them a made up story? Seems like a lousy thing to do. Was he a politician?

It's called a parable, dear. You can look it up in a dictionary.

[Roland]

Re: Sharks disprove evolution!

Nonsense. In your haste to confirm your own delusional beliefs, you've neglected the origins of this account, namely, that the talking trees was a story Jotham told to make a point. I would encourage you to read the entire chapter at least, the entire book for more information, and of course the entire Holy Bible for the right context.

So Jotham lied to the men of Shechem, gave them a made up story? Seems like a lousy thing to do. Was he a politician?

[Mary Etheldreda]

Re: Sharks disprove evolution!

I gave it some thought and this is what I could come up with:

The Bible tells us plants can talk: Judges 9:8-15. Pretty clear.

Nonsense. In your haste to confirm your own delusional beliefs, you've neglected the origins of this account, namely, that the talking trees was a story Jotham told to make a point. I would encourage you to read the entire chapter at least, the entire book for more information, and of course the entire Holy Bible for the right context.

[Roland]

Re: Sharks disprove evolution!

What's there to discuss: evolutionists are pagans and pagans believe in nonsense like talking plants! How can something so utterly absurd compete with Christianity.

I gave it some thought and this is what I could come up with:

The Bible tells us plants can talk: Judges 9:8-15. Pretty clear. I found a phytopathologist and he told me plants can communicate, though he didn´t use the word ¨talking¨. It had to do with small airborne molecules to mostly signal distress. As I understood it different types of molecules signal different types of stress. Other plants and insects pick up these signals and can act on it.

It seems the scientist and Christians more or less agree on this matter. I couldn´t find a pagan so I could not verify their position on this important matter.

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: Sharks disprove evolution!

I too am not really happy with the explanations from both sides, they leave too much room where a better description could have narrowed down the playing field to a figurative girth somewhere between a 12 and 16 gauge.

What's there to discuss: evolutionists are pagans and pagans believe in nonsense like talking plants! How can something so utterly absurd compete with Christianity.

[Roland]

Re: Sharks disprove evolution!

[...] Holes big enough to drive a bus through.

I too am not really happy with the explanations from both sides, they leave too much room where a better description could have narrowed down the playing field to a figurative girth somewhere between a 12 and 16 gauge.

[Des]

Re: Sharks disprove evolution!

The fact that we have evolved from the monkeys doesn't mean that all the monkeys beacame humans, there are still a few monkeys around...
Same thing for the sharks.
cheers

Mercy me, but how did I miss this one?

Well Mister Smartypants, scientists claim that birds evolved from dinosaurs. So, where are the dinosaurs?

You can't have it both ways. They can't both evolve into something else and therefore not be here and evolve into something else and still be here.

This is why nobody with any sense takes evolution seriously. Holes big enough to drive a bus through. Nothing at all like the Bible which is 100% consistent.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Sharks disprove evolution!

Not that it is any of my business, but would you really trust some sharks to kill ¨slants¨ if your Lord and Saviour could kill them in the hundreds of thousands in a ¨natural¨ disaster?

There is no such thing as a "natural" disaster. You see when really bad things happen (like you get eaten by wild beasts, get killed in war, get sick and die, etc.), then you'll know that it was God that did it to you. And you'll thank Him for it, if you know what's good for you!

Ezekiel 14:13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:

14:15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:

14:17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:

14:19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:

14:21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

[Roland]

Re: Sharks disprove evolution!

There are so many of those ornamentals, that few hundred million of slants getting killed by sharks would not even hit the news in Ornamental.

Not that it is any of my business, but would you really trust some sharks to kill ¨slants¨ if your Lord and Saviour could kill them in the hundreds of thousands in a ¨natural¨ disaster?

[Alphonse Alban]

Re: Sharks disprove evolution!

I´m not sure how many Chinese have been eaten by sharks but I doubt it is significant on the whole of the population

There are so many of those ornamentals, that few hundred million of slants getting killed by sharks would not even hit the news in Ornamental.

[Roland]

Re: Sharks disprove evolution!

It is apparently true that sharks favor the taste of Chinamen, judging from the large numbers of them eaten by sharks each year. However, it is also true that the Chinamen like to eat sharks. In some areas near to China, there are fewer and fewer sharks every year because the Chinamen eat them all up. If there was evolution, don't you think the sharks would have evolved to not be so tasty to Chinamen, there being so many of them? Would not Chinamen have evolved to be less tasty themselves?

People from China kill a lot more sharks than the other way around. I´m not sure how many Chinese have been eaten by sharks but I doubt it is significant on the whole of the population. The Chinese did catch a lot of sharks. If evolution were true, we would probably see a lot less tasty (in the eyes of the Chinese) sharks but not a lot less Chinese.

Now I´m thinking of ordering Chinese...

[Alvin Moss]

Re: Sharks disprove evolution!

It is apparently true that sharks favor the taste of Chinamen, judging from the large numbers of them eaten by sharks each year. However, it is also true that the Chinamen like to eat sharks. In some areas near to China, there are fewer and fewer sharks every year because the Chinamen eat them all up. If there was evolution, don't you think the sharks would have evolved to not be so tasty to Chinamen, there being so many of them? Would not Chinamen have evolved to be less tasty themselves?

[Roland]

Re: Sharks disprove evolution!

And just how does so called evilution 'know' that the shark does not need to 'change'?

Answer that one, smart guy.

YIC

Someone who thinks evolution is a plausible theory will probably say evolution does not ´know´ but just happens, or in this case, hardly happened. Sharks seem to be extremely well adapted to their environment for the moment, as their environment changes however, evolution may take it´s toll. Survival of the fittest (those who can out swim the Chinese or taste like crap) may cause some sharks to disappear, their place being taken by other species. Hence evolution. The population of Chinese seems to have grown the last few 100´s of million of years so the sharks might be in a bit of a tight spot.

Luckily I know better, should some of the sharks die out I´ll just blame it on a faulty design. I won´t blame my God, everyone can make a mistake while being drunk.