Richard seems confused about the meaning of the word “quoted”
I searched the whole forum and Richard says them frequently but I never have.
These are Richard’s words. And Richard has equated them to evolution: “ToE says nature created itself.” link and “things created themselves (oops Evolution)” link. Now that is an example of quoting someone.
Now I have said living organisms “create themselves” but with caveat that they do not do so in a vacuum or without help. And I frequently say God created the laws of nature to support the process of life. So Richard has basically lied. “Nature created itself” are his own words (describing evolution) not mine, not even in paraphrase.
In fact… @T_aquaticus quoted Richard here in this thread:
just another example of what it means to have quoted someone…
I do not reject the text. I reject the alterations of the text and the lies about what the text says. The reason for Genesis 1 is to tell us that all these things (sun, moon, stars, land, sea, plants, birds, fish, animals) are not gods but creations of God. But that only means they exist because of the action of God, it doesn’t mean God designed them, solely responsible for what they are and how they came to be. It is the same as any storm or earthquake which you seem to agree is not just God judging people. But all the things in Genesis 1 are a product of the same natural laws which produced those storms and earthquakes. But nature (those natural laws themselves), God created them. I have said so many times and never said otherwise.