Posted by Milky [milky] on November 25, 1999 at 17:50:03 {yaNwUlwC5cFXMK4ngJ867iFsWx/8fI}:
In Reply to: *Evolution Phase II posted by barJonah on November 25, 1999 at 15:20:46:
bar Jonah
That's what I love about this board, emotional
excitement. Jehovah's witnesses are very emotional
people and so are ew-JW's. I am in the safety of
my home where I can't hurt anybody and they can't
hurt me, so let 'er rip. Now my question.
You stated "You have it backwards. We only
know what to observe in the future when we have
a theory to test (by making predictions)". Given
the fact that Charles Darwin did'nt have the
educational background of say "Amazing Anointed"
or "5GJW" why is so much energy used in defending
a theory of this man Darwin when his grasp of
physics (quantum in particular) was practically
nil, and his approach to scientific observations
are greatly outdated in comparision to todays
scientist and their capabilities and technology.
May I give an example. Charles Taze Russell
believed in the date 1914 as being a "biblical year", and he himself did not discover the year
"1914" but learned of it from Nelson Barbour a
Second Adventist. Nelson counted 2520 years from
606 B.C.E. to come up with "1914". Yet todays
experts have proven that Jerusalem was destroyed
in 586/587 B.C.E. and not 607 B.C.E. as the Society believes today. The Society will defend
"607" even when their arguments don't hold water
because their founder discovered this date even
though he was wrong about every other date he ever
predicted. Would'nt it make sense to start all
over, start fresh with no preconceived ideas and
do research on the wealth of info that we have
today? There are men that wrote their P.H.d thesis
on the destruction of Jerusalem that know more
about this subject than Russell and Barbour combined.
Same thing with evolution. Let's not argue
creation or evolution, but let the FACTS tell the
story and who knows what the scientific community
will come up with