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"Sometimes popular antitrinitarian literature paints “the” doctrine as strongly influenced by, or even illicitly poached from some non-Christian religious or philosophical tradition. Divine threesomes abound in the religious writings and art of ancient Europe, Egypt, the near east, and Asia. These include various threesomes of male deities, of female deities, of Father-Mother-Son groups, or of one body with three heads, or three faces on one head (Griffiths 1996). However, similarity alone doesn’t prove Christian copying or even indirect influence, and many of these examples are, because of their time and place, unlikely to have influenced the development of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity.
A direct influence on second century Christian theology is the Jewish philosopher and theologian Philo of Alexandria (a.k.a. Philo Judaeus) (ca. 20 BCE–ca. 50 CE), the product of Alexandrian Middle Platonism (with elements of Stoicism and Pythagoreanism). Inspired by the Timaeus of Plato, Philo read the Jewish Bible as teaching that God created the cosmos by his Word (logos), the first-born son of God. ...
Another influence may have been the Neopythagorean Middle Platonist Numenius (fl. 150), who posited a triad of gods, calling them, alternately, “Father, creator and creature; fore-father, offspring and descendant; and Father, maker and made” ...
Justin Martyr (d. ca. 165) describes the origin of the logos (= the pre-human Jesus) from God using three metaphors (light from the sun, fire from fire, speaker and his speech), each of which is found in either Philo or Numenius (Gaston 2007, 53). ...
Justin and later second century Christians influenced by Platonism take over a concept of divine transcendence from Platonism, in light of which "no one with even the slightest intelligence would dare to assert that the Creator of all things left his super-celestial realms to make himself visible in a little spot on earth." (Justin, Dialogue, 92 [ch. 60])
Another influence may have been the Neoplatonist Plotinus’ (204–70 CE) triad of the One, Intellect, and Soul, in which the latter two mysteriously emanate from the One, and “are the One and not the One; they are the one because they are from it; they are not the One, because it endowed them with what they have while remaining by itself” ...
Many thinkers influential in the development of trinitarian doctrines were steeped in the thought not only of Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism, but also the Stoics, Aristotle, and other currents in Greek philosophy (Hanson 1988, 856–869). ...
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
1. He relies upon intelligent agents as the procurators of all that takes place
2. He relies upon an alleged pre-biotic environment for the earth which would not have existed
and which researchers have not been able to show ever existed on the earth (the granites
of the earth have considerable oxygen and water).
3. He relies upon molecular machinery borrowed from bacteria cells to do the work prescribed
by the researchers, which would not have existed during the time the RNA was allegedly
evolving into something able to produce proteins
4. He relies on these same molecular machines which are made of large, astonishingly
complex and specific proteins, which themselves require large strands of protein-coding
RNA to exist - strands much larger than those replicated or produced by the researchers.
5. He ignores the fact that these molecular machines are dependent upon
A. long protein-coding RNA's to exist, the prior existence of DNA
B. Large proteins which make up the protein and RNA manipulating
machinery
C. the existence of chaparonins to prevent misfolding of proteins during
stressful situations such as high heat, by assisting protein folding
D. the existence of ribosome to translate the amino acid chains into
the proteins which make up the molecular machinery
E. the existence of chaparones to finish the protein folding process
Evolutionists make these kind of glaring mistakes because they have no true science to support their ideas, and thus must rely upon true science and real biology to attempt to make an argument. It is the equivalent of pointing to an automobile as an argument that bicycles could have come into being my undirected evolution.
William A. Dembski, mathermatician, founder of the Discovery Institute predicted in 1998 that science would discover that what is called "junk DNA" would be discovered to be functional.
"The molecular taxonomists. who have been drawing up evolutionary histories (phylogeny) for nearly every kind of life, are going to have to undo all of their years of "Junk DNA"-based historical reconstructions and wait for the full implications to emerge before they try again." - Williams, A., Astonishing DNA complexity demolishes neo-Darwinism, Journal of Creation 21(3):111–118, 2007; p. 113.
"Should we be retiring the phrase “junk DNA” now? Yes, I really think this phrase does need to be totally expunged from the lexicon. It was a slightly throwaway phrase to describe very interesting phenomena that were discovered in the 1970s. I am now convinced that it’s just not a very useful way of describing what’s going on." - Ewan Birney of the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge
According to Dr. John Greally of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, ‘It would now take a very brave person to call non-coding DNA junk."
“Almost every nucleotide is associated with a function of some sort or another, and we now know where they are, what binds to them, what their associations are, and more.” - Tom Gingeras, one of the senior scientists on the ENCODE project
PhD Organic Chemistry
"Much non-protein-coding DNA (formerly called junk DNA) consists of a wide variety of regulatory elements for both transcription and translation, many classes of regulatory RNAs, critical regulatory pseudogene code, and various nuclear matrix determining features." - Wells, J., The Myth of Junk DNA, Discovery Institute Press, Seattle, WA, 2011.
"Recent research from the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project has shown most noncoding DNA (greater than 80%) is transcribed into RNA. The noncoding RNA has been found to have many regulatory and other functions including repairing DNA, assisting in DNA replication, regulating DNA transcription, aiding in folding and maintenance of chromosomes, controlling RNA editing and splicing, helping fight disease, regulating embryological development, and communication between cells." - Dan Reynolds PhD Organic Chemistry
“ … the high extent of sequence homology between human and chimpanzee proteins supports the longstanding hypothesis that many phenotypic differences between the species reflect differences in the regulation of gene expression, in addition to differences in amino acid sequences.” - Oldham, M.C., Horvath, S. and Geschwind, D.H., Conservation and evolution of gene coexpression networks in human and chimpanzee brains


