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

This story is interesting, actually. It was made up by a woman who wrote a religious column (if I recall right) in the late 19th century. She claimed that she had been with Darwin on his death bed, and that he had recanted and got hella into the Jesus and all that. In reality, she hadn't actually known Darwin, let alone did she ever have a chance to be with him at his deathbed. She drew quite a bit of fire from his estate for it, but there were enough people reading and publishing her claims that is spread. Didn't help that there wasn't a Snopes at the turn of the century. 

[quote]If we evolved from monkeys like what evolution is taught, then why is our DNA closer to that of a mouse?[/quote]

Is it mice now? When I was growing up the lies all the old ladies kept trading back and forth was cats. I suppose you gotta change it up or you get caught.

What you are mixing up is the fact that we are genetically similar to mice. Not more similar to them than monkeys. Just more genetically similar to mice. 

[quote]If we evolved from monkeys and birds from dinosaurs, then why are there still monkeys but not dinosaurs?[/quote]

Well, first off this isn't a video game. Its not like evolution works by clicking a button on a tech tree and watching as everything just sort of moves to the next level simultaneously. Populations that are permanently divided do not usually follow the same path, partially because their needs are different and partially because there was so many other variables involved. Dinosaurs were big. They required more of everything to thrive. When the Cretaceous Cataclysm put a whoopin' on the Earth, they couldn't survive the squeeze for resources that followed. The birds and proto-birds did manage to thrive. Those birds had descended from previous dinosaurs. It wasn't like the Cataclysm happened and all of the dino's panicked and sprouted wings. We are talking about millions of years of shit going down, after all.

[quote]If what you are saying is true, then how did fossils form? Because the ONLY force capable of burying dinosaurs alive and forming fossils would be the flood. Honestly, try to form a GENUINE fossil on your own. Don't carve it or make some indention on a piece of clay like you do in elementary school. Seriously sit down with an animals skeleton and lots of dirt and see if you can get that to form a fossil. A fossil has to be formed quickly, not over an extended period of time, under massive amounts of pressure which would not be available any other way.[/quote]

Because fossilization isn't as simple as "Put something in a lot of dirt and check on it right before you go to bed." 

And yes, scenes from bad water-world fanfic are not the only thing that can quickly pressurize something. You got yourself some landslides, some earthquakes regular type floods that are violent enough to bury... there are a few options. 

[quote]If we think about the world being created in the sense of what the Bible says, we don't have to worry about the silliness of something like a temperature snap or membranes touching and forming the universe. Besides, without matter, isn't it impossible for temperature to exist? And if time didn't exist when the Big Bang happened, then how could membranes move?[/quote]

Metaphysics. This isn't something where scientists actually have a lot of guidelines written up because, as of now, scientific inquiry is stuck investigating the physical world because that is all we can interact with at this point. Time, space, and the current rules of physics as we know them are defined by each other within the universe. Before the big bang, these things didn't exist, and neither did the laws. There is no way to know what came before. Could it be a creator? Yes. It seems more likely, in my opinion, to have been something weirder, but when we are dealing with metaphysics even the nature of what an intelligence is becomes muddled. There are a lot of people hypothesizing about how we can break past this barrier, but to my knowledge we haven't been able too. 

Hell, who knows, if we do manage to break out of the universe we could go do something completely wild. If there is a God, we could go kill the bastard. That would be fun. 

[quote]Also, I will be describing soon how Biblical prophecy is coming true. Don't believe me? Read about the Four Horsemen (starting in Revelation 6:1) and the Olivet Prophecy (starting in Matthew 24:3). These signs are here. All of them, rather than just some. And you mean to say that the Bible doesn't have any legitimacy? Earthquakes, wars, false prophets claiming to be the returned Jesus or a Messiah. They're here. Killing by plague? Ebola. Don't know what it does? Rots you alive and turns your innards to soup. Not fun. Killing by the beasts of the earth? How about the recent rising of shark attacks and brown recluse bites? Not in the sense you'd think, but they're still scientifically in the Animal Kingdom, correct? Disrupted peace? Flip on the news. Crime is on the rise. 'Nuff said.[/quote]

The problem is that these things have been going on fairly regularly since as far back as there have been people ( at least). Earthquakes are sort of a fundemental force of nature. Wars go back at least to ancient Sumeria, probably further than that. If anything, we've been dealing with less wars recently. We've went seventy years without a full-scale war between major powers. That might just be a record. Plagues, likewise, are not only old-news but also rather calm now. Ebola has killed a handful of people in Liberia. The Black Plague wiped out 30% of Europe. 

And... rises in shark attacks are so rare that they would make a poor herald to the end of the world. You get a couple a year, maybe. I would expect an apocalyptic animal attack to look like Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, but nothing that cool has happened. Just a few brown recluses giving people nasty sores. This is the God that flooded the entire world so badly it drowned the unpopular fish! This is the God that parted the Red Sea with nothing but a stick-wielding jew and a little chutzpah. I gotta see that pizazz before i'm sold, man. Lions wielding lances from cattle-back! A whale with an Uzi and a bone to pick! THAT might put the fear of god into me. All the brown reculse thing does is put the fear of sheds into me. 

Also, crime isn't the same everywhere. In the US, it has been (per capita at least) on the decline since 1980. Nancy Grace drumming up a wailing and gnashing of teeth every time a little white girl sneezes funny is what has been on the rise. 

[quote]How much more do I have to describe? I hope I've gotten my point across. This stuff's real, and it's happening. Just know that when Jesus returns, though we do not know the day or the hour, it WILL BE MADE KNOWN. All the sources of light in the sky will fall dark and the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the night. But by then, it will be too late for the inhabitants of the earth who have not followed Jesus. Then in an instant the vials will be poured out, and these are not fun. The earth will be destroyed by the presence of Jesus with the vial/bowl judgments, as the Bible says that heaven and earth fled from His presence. Then a New Heaven and a New Earth will be made and those taken at the seventh trumpet will reign for 1,000 years, during which those who refused to repent will live out their sentence in the lake of fire.[/quote]

The thing is, this is what unsells your beliefs more than anything. There is no real-world reference for any of this. The streetlights go out, a big neon "J" appears in the sky, and all of a sudden the few people on earth who still use vials are suddenly inconvenienced. And then we all blow up and everybody except for Kirk Cameron and Billy Graham are tortured. That... just... isn't going to sell. Not to competent people in the twenty first century. 

Now, if I do recall right, Jesus did at some point in time say.when addressing his buddies, that "“[i]For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and will then repay every man according to his deeds. Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.[/i]“ 

This seems to suggest that he's late. Or did he addressed the reader while giving a speech? Because that would seem... awkward, for Jesus to have a Frank Underwood moment. Or, perhaps one of them are still kicking it? That would be sort of cool I guess, a two thousand year old man who looks at the calender and sighs, hoping that today will be the day that he has been waiting for all these years, holding on to that last shred of hope in the back of his mind only to swallow two thousand years worth of sadness every night before he goes to bed. 

But, if we are to assume that the Christian mythos did take place, the future still looks bleak. Like, it sort of looks like God forget about us. He got busy making Christina Hendricks and it slipped his mind. Maybe he figured he would let us keep going because we keep making such awesome stuff. I could see God up there, thinking "I'll... I'll send in the horsemen after GRRM finishes A Dream of Spring. Or... maybe when the TV show is finished." I dunno. I wouldn't blame him. End of the world means he has to spend the rest of eternity socializing with all the really dull people who are in his fan club. Sinners seem to do all the cool stuff that would be worth watching from the heavenly seat. I dunno.

... or maybe Nietzche did manage to kill him.