People can easily lie or exaggerate in a book, but the real truth is always found in nature.

People have been trying to improve nature ever since the beginning of time. It's why we wear clothes and live in houses and use heating systems and travel around in cars. In many ways our drive to make life more comfortable by altering nature is what separates us from animals.
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avory says: I say change and you say improve. My point was not to say what drives man to alter nature or that doing so seperates us from animals. No, animals don't read the Bible and I don't know what their beliefs are.

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You said: I worry about all the hybrid and genetically-engineered foods that we produce these days, but there are people who try to stick to more natural ways of farming. We do a lot of our shopping at natural food stores for that very reason.

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I say : The point of my post was not to examine the differences in farming techniques. I lived in the country growing up, spent over-nights on farms with my farm friends, and worked the yard, garden and woods of my own family's property while growing up. We have tons of different grocery stores where I live now. The point of my post was not to talk about the virtues of being discriminatory as it pertains to food shopping.

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You said: IMO things like cloning should be done cautiously and under strict regulations, but the trend seems to be to reduce regulation of industry and let them do whatever is most profitable. That whole trend also worries me, since the most profitable approach may not be healthy for us in the long run.

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I say: I wasn't expecting my example of cloning ( in my post ) to bring on a discussion about deregulation or trendsetting, profits vs losses w/in the industry, or what is healthy or not.

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You said: My personal belief is that studying nature is an excellent way to commune with the creator. The more deeply we reach into unveiling the infitie complexity of the universe the more it strengthens my belief that some force far greater than us is behind it all.

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I ask you: Will you ever get to the point of saturation? ----> Like, enough is enough, ...you believe about as strongly as you possibly can and one more nature trip to wherever just isn't going to make you any more of a believer than you are now? Me neither, and I agree with the above (what you said), plus, I believe in the Bible. I'm not a purist but I don't think in terms of anything being lies or exaggerations that are in the Bible, either. If I were a purist I suppose that type of description would offend me a lot. It somewhat does anyway,......do you think it can't be disputed, what you say there? Is that why you haven't touched upon what I wrote or is there another reason?

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You said: If someone has found a different pathway that brings them closer to the creator, more power to them, but please don't come here and condemn my approach. I KNOW I'm on the correct pathway for me and all the preaching in the world won't change that.

Ronda, the rambling and roundabout way you write makes it very difficult to ever see what your main point is. If your point is that species that now exist will be replaced by new ones in the future, then I agree.

I have witnessed God's mercy and gravce and power many times that really cannot be explained in any other way.

Ronda, I said long ago that many people find your posts difficult because your writing style is "stream of consciousness" while mine is more logical. It makes it easy for you and I to misunderstand each other and IMO that's where much of our disagreements come from.