What?
I am using the Chinese as an example to explain the
difference between a common ancestor and being descended
from. We share the common ancestor of the dragon (using your
metaphor) but we no longer identify ourselves as a PRC Chinese.
We shared a common ancestry with apes and chimps but descended
in a different path. We are all descendents of this common ancestor
but evolve to be a different species(with the scientific definition
as being unable to mate naturally and produce a viable
offspring).
The Chinese have thousands of ancestors but the dragon
metaphor is used to define that point where we all share that
common ancestor.
Homo Erectus, Apes and Chimps have millions of ancestors but
there is one point where we all shared that same ancestor.
How more simple do i need to make this for you? You can
only see the points i make but seemed incapable of making any
connections.
If my example was wrong laurence82, dcdx, Rooney and your
fellow Christians here would have pointed it out
already
There are different degrees of belief in a supreme being.
Deists believe that a supreme being created the universe then
left it alone for the universe to do whatever such beings do to
occupy time. We believe such beings do not interfere with the
natural world after creation but can be understood
rationally.
Theists are people are like you and LarryTeo, believing that
everything that happens God intentionally lets it happen. An
overseer or a Big Brother that peeks in every moment.
I just believe in the possibility that a rational
being created a system that's running on automatic,
by just setting the rules of physics and chemistry that makes the
stars and planets possible and left it as that.
Evolution is just one of the systems running that
we're trying to understand.
What in the world is an evolution controversy anyhow and why in
hell would this be one?
Haiz...you are using natonality as an analogy, while you are
talking about evolution of species.
Initially, I asked you what is the difference between
descendance and ancestry?
Descendance and ancestry are interchangable and mean the same
thing.
Another example, Jews are descendants of Abraham(through
Jacob) and Arabs are descendants of Abraham(through
Ishmael).
Abraham is the common ancestor of Jews and Arabs, not monkeys
and apes!
BTW, where is your definition of evolutionism?
You once said that you're an agnostic and then sometime,
somewhere you said that you also believe in God.
That's how mr. hybrid religion came about.
You have created a contradictory statement again, "There
is certainly no grounds for saying one cannot believe in Deism and
in Evolution at the same time."
Is this possible? If you continue to argue along this line,
you'll become more
confused along the way.
