toldailytopic: If there were a TheologyOnline Mount Rushmore who would be on it?

[The Barbarian]

iow, those who believe that God designed a system

Demoting God to a "designer" is not part of theistic evolution. He's the Creator.

that relies on random mutations that more often lead to death or disease than to improvement of the organism

God, of course, recognized the fact, and made the world so that natural selection can handle that.

And as you might know mutations generally don't do much of anything. But a few are useful and that's how fitness increases.

[tetelestai]

toldailytopic: If there were a TheologyOnline Mount Rushmore who would be on it?

Well, since TOL advocates open theism and MAD, the "Theology Online Mount Rushmore" would be of the following men:

Richard Rice - Open theist, and inventor of the term "open theism"

John Nelson Darby - Inventor of dispensationalism

E. W. Bullinger - Inventor of Mid-Acts-Dispensationalism

Bob Enyart - Took the teachings of the above three men, and joined them all together.

[resurrected]

Mount Spammore would look more like this:
meshak
bog
Joey Arnold
jerzy

Ninjashadow, Zimfan and Jujubee were the founding fathers of Spam

You're too new to remember the Spammer's Paradise thread.


It was more Spamtastic than Town's Observations thread

[resurrected]

barbie mentions a particular type of moron:

...theistic evolutionist...

rez chuckles:

iow, those who believe that God designed a system that relies on random mutations that more often lead to death or disease than to improvement of the organism

barbie confirms:

God, of course, recognized the fact, and made the world so that natural selection can handle that.

And as you might know mutations generally don't do much of anything. But a few are useful and that's how fitness increases.

and, as I said, in more cases than lead to improvement, mutations lead to disease and death.

Typical of you to ignore that.

[The Barbarian]

Barbarian observes:
Koban is a lot less manic these days.

barbie mentions a particular type of moron:

and, as I said, in more cases than lead to improvement, mutations lead to disease and death.

And yet, in almost all populations, the process leads to an increase in fitness. This is like the socialist's complain that most businesses fail within a year of so of being started.

This might seem like a bad thing, but of course, prosperity through free enterprise is beneficial to society. It might seem puzzling at first, but if you think about it for a while, I'm sure you'll see what the point is.

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Bob Enyart? You mean the open theist heretic?

a common mistake


our Bob Enyart spells his name a different way

[Charity]

Can I bring a sock along? or maybe THREE socks.

Smiley Mt Rushmore...

That's right! The whole thing will embarrass its self.

Votings so wrong, it insures the wrong person to get into respect. someone way worthy gets axed like Jesus. I wouldn't.t come if I was him, the same thing would happen...

[Eeset]

Barbarian observes:
It might seem puzzling at first, but if you think about it for a while, I'm sure you'll see what the point is.

I am puzzled why you haven't made any nominations for who should be on Mt. InTOLerance?

[resurrected]

Barbarian observes:
Koban is a lot less manic these days.







And yet, in almost all populations, the process leads to an increase in fitness. This is like the socialist's complain that most businesses fail within a year of so of being started.

This might seem like a bad thing, but of course, prosperity through free enterprise is beneficial to society. It might seem puzzling at first, but if you think about it for a while, I'm sure you'll see what the point is.

the point, of course, is that your silly idea of God is one who has created a system that more often leads to death and disease than improvement.


Go ahead - continue positing a God who is no more effective than man

[Charity]

Couldn't tell you. We have a bunch of presidents and only room for 4?

What if we had actor stand-ins?

(Robin Williams as Teddy Roosevelt came to mind and then I thought that Phil Harman Looks like TH....)

That's not fear! You need a woman

[The Barbarian]

the point, of course, is that your silly idea of God is one who has created a system that more often leads to death and disease than improvement.

He did create it. You're trying to hold God to man's standards. But death and disease are also His creation:

Isaiahs 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.

(notice that by "evil" He means things like death and disease, not sin)

Go ahead - continue positing a God who is no more effective than man

That is clearly more than any man can do. You're just not happy with the way He does things.

[Eeset]

He did create it. You're trying to hold God to man's standards. But death and disease are also His creation:

Isaiahs 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.

(notice that by "evil" He means things like death and disease, not sin)



That is clearly more than any man can do. You're just not happy with the way He does things.

Keep this up and I am going to nominate you for Mt. Derail.

[resurrected]

barbie insists that we accept him as a moron

He did create it.

you can stop trying so hard now barbie

[Angel4Truth]

Bob Enyart, Knight, Delmar and Ebenz

[grit]

If they're to be chiseled in stone, I think in all due humility we'd probably defer to other Christian greats like Pope John Paul II, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and maybe Joni Eareckson Tada or Harriet Tubman, just to keep us 'relevant'.