Mrfun, Okay, Glad to see you back! I was intending to answer the other issues, one by one, even if you didn’t return; but it is a lot more rewarding and productive to get good feedback.
I don’t consider myself to be an “evolution denier.” I will get back later, when I have more time. When getting into a discussion about evolution; first we need to explain exactly what we mean by the term “evolution”. I’ll explain later. I also will check out the “fundamentalist Christian grandmother letter”, you bring up here.
I suppose you might call me a “fundamentalist Christian,” but that takes some explanation also. I don’t really label myself anything but “Christian.” I am not a Catholic, nor of any protestant denomination. I identify only with Christ’s church, of the Bible New Testament, which began in 33AD on the day of Pentecost in Jerusalem. See the book of Acts.
A lot of huge errors go on in the name of “Fundamentalism Christian.” Preaching a “young earth” (as “the Bible (supposedly) proves, or says”) is only one of many examples of false statements made by many preachers. It’s really scientists vs. preachers, not science vs. the Bible.
About the Qur’an, the reason I had said, “compare the Bible with the Qur’an,” is because it is clearly obvious that the Muslim Holy Prophet Muhammad, was not a true prophet or messenger of God, like the Muslim faith proclaims, and who the mature, and also deceived young, Muslims are willing, and eager to kill themselves along with as many good and innocent people as they can, who do not accept the Muslim faith for themselves. I don’t understand terms, such as ‘Muslim extremists,’ when it is clear that what these Muslims are doing is simply obeying and following what is written down for them in the Qur’an, which Muslims consider to be the precise and exact word of God (Allah) word for word, as dictated to the Muslim Holy Prophet Muhammad.
One of the first tests of a true prophet from God, is that the prophet, who speaks for God, is NEVER wrong. Muhammad was wrong almost all of the time. Muhammad clearly reflects mans’ ignorance at the time he lived, about science and nature, as in the parts of the Qur’an that you quoted. And, I can quote you many more. When I asked a Muslim, in my forum at the Daily Record, about that, –he had no rational answer, other than to deny the validity of science itself. You will not find untrue like statements in the Bible. If creation is of God, than certainly God knows His own handiwork. Remember, the Bible is not written to be a science book, such as proving to man that the earth is a sphere and not flat. Even though the people at the time thought that the earth was flat, along with all kinds of other false beliefs, the Bible makes no such false statements. The point I meant to make, is that you won’t find false statements in the Bible, like we find in the Qur’an and other so-called holy books, — that in these modern times everyone, even with the slightest education, clearly can see the obvious ignorance , in so many statements in these early books of men, claimed to be of God. The Bible is the only book that stands up over the years of time and testing..
Some preachers today, claim to be modern day prophets. These are also false prophets. (See Hebrews 1:1-2).
Later Gator, –dc
DonColeCartoons Blog 