And I don't see it as wishful thinking. I see it more like holding fast to hope

@Deleted User I understand and I respect that. And I look down on people that don’t respect that.

Or rather that can’t respect that

Once I came to the realization that a God actually exists my life changed in a profound way. I realized at that point that I was a major jerk to people in my lifetime. How many female I hurt for very selfish reasons. I was really all about me.

I showed nowhere near the love I should have toward my kids

So to be honest. I would lose a lot if I gave up on my beliefs.

Now for me it's just about understanding God. And perhaps evolution is a mechanism of God

The only person that can open your mind or change your mind is you. So hearing anyone of us on here talking about it isn’t going to do it. If you find peace in a god and you get your good values from believing in one then I think that is fine it doesn’t harm anyone. At the end of the day you can learn everything about the universe and about life and there will always be one missing origin that science hasn’t found out yet and maybe can never find out. You can then say that origin is god and a lot of scientists do that. I think it was issac Newton that said he was discovering the wonders of gods works or something along those lines

But anyway it was a good discussion but I think we both need to do to bed now lol. Good night @Deleted User

Yeah I read somewhere that science came about from people questioning how God did it

Im in alaska so it's still early here

can i ask how old you are?

48

And I come here to talk because Travis has a pretty open mind and he's not super mean when criticizing

Plus I hold a pretty uncommon belief and there aren't many places I can go to discuss it

good not that old then. i always thought to myself id never want to tell an older person god doesnt exist becuase of the whole death thing lol. but you still have alot of life to live

yeah I'm still good. I got a lot of time

But cool talking to you and I will keep searching for the truth

https://youtu.be/qap_FyQxILM @Deleted User

such a bad argument

QUESTION - What would be the implications on the evolution theory should one prove that a global flood did occur?

Very little

Wdym by implications

Depends on when

@Delta Say as described in the bible

@kaizen How would that proof effect the science

I'm not sure there are any. What exactly does a "global flood as described in the bible" have anything to do with evolution or the way that it behaves?

Using the bible as your proof of any such event isn't proof at all. There are many books out there with many different stories by many different authors, does that mean that every book ever written was true? Did Harry really fly in a field knocking around a magic wizard ball? Most likely not.

Wouldn't the evolution process reset?

I see where you are coming from.

Yes

It depends on how many species are wiped out

And if it alters the environment

But there would be new organisms

I would assume all would be gone. Unlesss of course someone built a big boat to save them

Then yea

New species

I mean its a stretch of a hypothetical only because all plants on the planet would have died

Starts again from bacteria

Now keep in mind the bible claims that this happened about 4500 years ago

Given a situation where life is forced to behave differently by its changing environment would lead to adaptation, or extinction of that species. More specifically, land mammals may have become extinct.