A Bit of Orange

Where did we come from? How did we- and wolves and cabbages and everything else living on Earth today- come to be?

Welcome again to Thursday Night Nachos (Defining Evolution)! In Chapter 2, the guys down at Danny’s talk about the Darwinian Tree of Life, which is a map of the History of Life on Earth, as told by Charles “Chuck D” Darwin. By studying these pictures, one gets a good idea of what it is Evolution is intending to say happened. Even though you may have suffered through nearly two decades of public school, the facts may surprise you. The key idea is this: Not EVERY kind of change will cause the Tree to grow. Some changes are a metaphorical chainsaw.

In this week’s video, your Rent-A-Friend (Bryan) will explain the tree and help you differentiate between the kinds of changes which make the tree grow and the kinds that hack limbs off. I already know that some people will argue with me about this, but I shall stand my ground in saying that growing a tree and hacking it’s limbs off are NOT the same action.

Read Thursday Night Nachos (Defining Evolution) Ch 2 HERE.

It was another beautiful Thursday night at Danny’s Bar, Grill, and House of Rabblerousing, and by “beautiful” I mean “spent consuming mass quantities of root beer, nachos, and various other foods which are pictured on those posters warning one of the threat of heart failure.” With me at the round table in the corner by the dart board were my friends Bill, Carl, Tom, and Captain Blue Beard. We meet regularly as a sort of support group for men with jobs and whatnot. Giving each other a leg up dealing with the acquisition of the old American Dream. We usually banter about the week’s adventures, counting the death toll as sales clashed with marketing, or recounting the destruction done to one’s stain resistant carpet by one’s own pint sized flesh and blood, and of course we often have lengthy discussions about any movie which was based on a comic book or graphic novel. However, this week we have a prearranged topic of discussion for the enlightenment and education of all the western world.

Just last week I was all set to begin another row with my friend Carl over the historicity of Darwinian Evolution, when our friend Bill made a very wise suggestion that we first endeavor to define the term. After all, how can Carl say that Evolution is, or I say evolution is not true if neither of us can define what it is? We might not even be talking about the same thing, like that time we argued for two hours about the quality and entertainment value of the Batman movie, when it turns out I was talking about the one starring Adam West (“Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb!”) and Carl was talking about the Christian Bale one (“Swear to me!”) and Tom was talking about the Michael Keaton movie (“Did you ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?”) and Captain Bluer Beard was talking about the Tic animated series, which really shows how little he was paying attention during that particular conversation. Continue reading →

Ask yourself this: How can you argue about something if no one knows what that something is?!??

Welcome to the “Thursday Night Nachos (Defining Evolution)” Series! Part of the reason there is such debate about Evolution is because almost NO ONE knows what it is. In this series, we will examine the story Darwinian Evolution intends to tell, look at the things it has to accomplish to tell that story, and then see if any known mechanisms in nature accomplish those goals. (Spoiler Alert!) We will see, when all is said and done, that the many definitions given to Evolution are paper thin and meaningless, or simply false, calling for addition to be done by subtracting, or for new species to be done by counting the species which already exist. Don’t believe me? Read on, my friends!
Read Thursday Night Nachos (Defining Evolution) Ch 1 HERE.

In this week’s video, your Rent-A-Friend (Bryan) will introduce the series and explain the importance of defining your terms.

A Bit of Orange will be bringing you the same fun, Biblical Apologetics that we’ve brought you for almost a decade on RentAFriend2000, and Creation Soapbox.

Come back in a few days for the new and improved (and hopefully more streamlined) Apologetics Ministry: A Bit of Orange.

Thanks!

Bryan