Posted: Mar 29, 2018 4:13 pm
This is typical creationist usage of metaphorical language to imply agency.
And no, it does not just contain instructions, it contains the basic matter of the plant. Anything else has to be absorbed by the seed from the soil.
The seed was neither created by nor magically appeared in the soil Wortfish.
Wortfish wrote: but the actual raw materials come from the soil, water and air.
Stop making shit up about subjects you clearly know fuck all about.
Wortfish wrote:Therefore creationism is nowhere near the same principle.
I am arguing that God didn't create Eve from scratch.
Not only is this in contradiction with what the biblical texts state, it is wholly irrelevant. Evolution isn't an agent that creates things. It's the name for a collection of processes and interactions wich results in gene variation and speciation.
Wortfish wrote: He created Adam from dust,
And again, since humans evolved from older primates and are not golems this is just ludicrous nonsense.
Wortfish wrote:then Eve from one of his ribs. He gave them both reproductive parts that allow the human race to profilerate and continue without having to create each and every one of us from scratch again and again: "Go forth and multiply!" That sounds a lot like evolution!
Only if you fail to understand what evolution is or are employing a dishonest humpty-dumpty definition.