[quote]@gorgenmast: Nothing is said in the Bible concerning any "dome" or "flat world". No one ever said anything about space being a "lie by Satan" here. As far as evolution goes, here're my thoughts on that:[/quote]

"And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so." Genesis 1:6-7 KJV

Here's a graphic depiction of this model I found on google images that's pretty consistent with what I was told in an Introduction to the Old Testament class.

[img]http://biologos.org/uploads/static-content/OTcosmos.jpg[/img]

[quote]As far as evolution goes, here're my thoughts on that:[/quote]

Ho lordy.

As someone that graduated with a degree in Biology from a reputable university, let me go through each of those points and tell you why they're wrong.

[quote]1) The inventor of the theory himself admitted it was wrong.[/quote]

No he didn't. Charles Darwin never said anything to that effect.

[quote]2) If evolution happened, then how on earth do we have birds. If it was from desire, that wouldn't work because humans desired flight for ages and never actually grew wings and feathers. If it was from necessity, the amount of time required for said evolution would leave most species of birds extinct.[/quote]

Well, I agree, you can't just 'will' something to evolve. Bird feathers evolved and become more complex as a result of more effective competition and favorable selection. Bird feathers, like reptile scales that they evolved from, are growths of epidermal keratin - the same material that comprises the majority of human skin and hair. Feathers originally grew out as a sort of peachlike fuzz on dinosaurs that helped Jurassic dinosaurs thermoregulate (stay warm). It's widely hypothesized that arboreal(tree-living) dinosaurs developed more complex feathers for gliding and flying by leaping down from the trees in the same way a flying squirrel does. This is supported by what is probably the most famous missing link fossil of all: Archaeopteryx, which shows both characteristics of both dinosaurs and birds.

[img]http://ryanellingson.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/archaeopteryx_dsc_8270.jpg[/img]

This segues perfectly into your next point...

[quote]No one has found the missing link.[/quote]

Yes they have. There are THOUSANDS of missing link fossils. Paleontologists have found missing link fossils between dinosaurs and birds, otter-like predators and whales, toothed whales and baleen whales, and hundreds of specimens between humans and their apelike ancestors. One of my professors and actually wrote a [url=http://www.amazon.com/Missing-Links-Evolutionary-Concepts-Transitions/dp/0763721964]book[/url] devoted entirely to missing link fossils. You might consider getting a used copy and educate yourself on the topic you're trying to explain.

[quote]4) The odds of earth forming on its own and evolution happening just exactly as it supposedly did with such perfect balance to the ecosystems are so much more against it happening than the odds of Jesus fulfilling all the prophecies written about him. Laws of Physics and of Nature and whatever else scientists say describe that as time progresses, nature is going to degrade, not evolve and form from nothing. Try it yourself. Create a completely empty vacuum in a little ball and see how long it takes for something to be created from that nothing. Nothing will ever happen. So why shouldn't I believe in God if science contradicts everything, including itself, while the Bible contradicts nothing? I can see no reason.[/quote]

Life is not something that is perfectly crafted for a perfectly designed planet. Life is develops through trial and error and fortunate accidents - it is not built or balanced immaculately. It is more like a gallon of water being poured into a vase - filling up little niches and spaces and equalizing itself out at the surface and forming itself perfectly to every little contour of its container. Life was not designed for this planet - it developed and molded itself to thrive on this planet.

It is true that in a closed system, entropy will prevail and ordered systems will tend to disorder as per the Second Law of Thermodynamics. But Earth is not a closed system. The biosphere of our planet is affected by solar energy from above and geothermal warmth from within. This input of energy makes it thermodynamically favorable for complex organisms to exist. The Earth is not a vacuum in a sealed ball - your analogy is not consistent with the state of the Earth's biosphere.

...Anyway, I realize you are not trying to proselytize and even if you did, I wouldn't care. I don't care what you think for yourself. If you want to believe this tripe then be my guest. But once you spout a bunch of psuedoscientific horseshit about how the world works and try to pass it off as the truth, you better believe that as a biologist I'm going to call you out on it. Also, I'd like to add that I've studied the Bible for myself - probably more rigorously than you have. Just saying.