Tsathoggua Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 I'm going to have lunch with two of my old pals from my former congregation -- the "Crieve Hall Church of Christ" in Nashville, Tennessee, USA -- this afternoon. Had lunch with one of them a few weeks back, and we wound up having a fun time. Hopefully, this lunch will be a repeat of the same. I will report about it later if anything significant happens. Wish me luck! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yunea Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Good luck, then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overcame Faith Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 I hope the lunch goes well! Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Margee Posted November 23, 2015 Moderator Share Posted November 23, 2015 Keep it 'light and airy' and stay away from all the 'heavy' (especially religion) topics and you will probably have a great time !! Have fun!! Let us know how it's going!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geezer Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 None of my former Church of Christ "friends" would likely want me to join them for lunch, but I imagine I would be a topic of discussion at their table. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsathoggua Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 It went pretty well. We had some friendly banter going on, and also come consideration of evidence (or lack of) for the bible's veracity. No minds were changed in the ensuing confrontation. No yelling or fisticuffs, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsathoggua Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 One of the things that we talked about was the fossil record. He kept going on about the fact that there are no "missing links". I kept referring to several fossils ("Tiktaalik" being one of them) that are excellent examples of evolution in action. I pointed out the examples we have of whale fossiIs, synapsids evolving into mammals, etc. I didn't actually expect any of these facts to convince him, of course. But I do hate it when creationists make that "no missing links" claim. Bogus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenaissanceWoman Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Yeah, I used to use the "no missing links" argument, because that's what I was taught, and I didn't have enough interest to look it up for myself. I'm pretty embarrassed about that now. It's so wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsathoggua Posted November 24, 2015 Author Share Posted November 24, 2015 Yeah, I used to use the "no missing links" argument, because that's what I was taught, and I didn't have enough interest to look it up for myself. I'm pretty embarrassed about that now. It's so wrong. It amuses me to see people in such complete denial over fossils that completely invalidate the biblical "like begets like" concept. You can see change over time (in millions of years, of course) as organisms adapt to their environment -- land animals become amphibious and morph into whales, dinosaurs evolve into birds, etc. But some people stubbornly refuse to see anything that might contradict their so-called holy book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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