I'm looking into getting SkyAngel and came across this forum during my research. While this topic did not help me decide whether to get the product or not, I found it interesting.
After reading through, it appears that the general area of contention stemmed from an original post that questioned the validity of a program that aired claiming that evolution is against creationism.
Couple of thoughts. The bible clearly states that a rainbow is a symbol from God. The bible also clearly states the purpose of the rainbow. Now here we are a few thousand years later and supposedly much more intelligent, and we have scientifically figured out how the rainbow is actually created. Physics not being my strongest talent, I seem to remember that it is the passage of light through water in this instance. However, just because we now know how it is done, does not mean that God is not the one doing it. One part requires knowledge of science, the other part requires faith in the reason behind it. A non-believer will see the rainbow and realise there is water up there in the atmosphere. A believer can have the same realisation, however s/he can also praise God for what He has done.
I do believe evolution exists. I studied biology in school and have read some texts and I tend to agree that it exists. However, as a born-again Christian I do not believe that this is how we came to existence. The big bang may have happened ("let there be light"), however this cannot be proven one way or another. Whether you believe we got here by evolution or by being created requires faith, even if just a small part. The theory of evolution was really brought to the fore-front by Darwin. This is the same man coincidentally that changed his mind before his death, stating that "step by step science leads us through the theory of evolution until we arrive at the door of creation".
For example, take the Bombardier beetle. This little thing has it's own built-in flame thrower for self-defence. It has two 'tanks' within it's body, a mixing chamber and all of the other necessary bits and pieces that allows it to store hydrogen and oxygen and to safely bring the two together at a point where it can control an external explosion. Imagine trying to evolve this. Everytime it makes a mistake it blows itself up!! Does this mean that evolution does not exist? No it emphatically does not.
What we need to be careful of is that we have clearly proven that evolution occurs, but we have not, and will not prove that evolution is how everything came into being, and that it occurs in every living object, or that it is constantly occurring.
One other comment, on the soap bubble experiment. Carbon dating often times uses a mother-daughter relationship. I.e. we look at that makeup of the object we are trying to date and compute the quantity of the daughter atom to the mother atom. We then use the algorithm that states the rate of change from mother to daughter to figure out how old the object is. The assumption made here however is how much daughter was present at the very beginning. It has also proven very inconsistent. Tests were conducted on a rock that was pulled from a specific layer in the earth and was therefore already aged to a known year. Multiple tests were performed and the differences in results varied from 10 years 10 10 million years!
I know this post will not answer all of the questions, but as Christians we do not need to argue about these things, they are inconsequential! What matters is whether you are heading to heaven or hell. Only you and God know the answer to that question. Once we get there, He who has knowledge higher than ours will surely show us how it was all done!
As a side, but connected note, Tony, don't have a problem with SkyAngel for airing this show. Like it was mentioned by someone else, you wouldn't be upset to see a naked woman on some adult channel, even if we disagree with it. Look at the "whole" picture of what SkyAngel is doing.
In His grace,
Marc
