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To: swamprebel
"IMHO it has always been the same story, just from two different frames of reference."

They can't be the same; they're mutually exclusive.

According to the Bible,there was no bloodshed nor death until after the fall of man. On the other hand, evolution teaches that there were millions upon millions of years of suffering and dying before humans ever came along.

Jesus said that God created Adam and Eve in the beginning; evolution says man is a fairly recent occurrence. You have to pick which one you're going to go with.

50 posted on 03/27/2013 12:16:17 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization)
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To: CatherineofAragon

No, The Bible has passed through many filters, most notably of relatively recent history is King James. I suspect the bias of the patron may be rationally assumed. For me it is more a users guide to life. Not a literal, fundamentally unchallangable source. A Guide.
I also believe it an error to subscribe Mankind’s method of keeping time, as relevant to the Universe. Of what use is Mankind’s shifting definition (leap years) of a day to Jupiter or the Ort Cloud?


89 posted on 03/27/2013 1:32:54 PM PDT by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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To: CatherineofAragon

“Jesus said that God created Adam and Eve in the beginning”

No, man was created on day six. In the beginning there was only the word, which was God, so God was there, too, I guess. But all creationists must do is declare a biblical “day” to be as long as necessary. Twenty four hours, a million years, what’s the difference?


94 posted on 03/27/2013 1:43:08 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: CatherineofAragon

Only if one takes a strictly-literalist approach to Genesis. And for the overwhelming majority of Christian history, that hasn’t been standard approach. Such men as Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas both strongly refused a literalist interpretation, and to this day, their positions are considered orthodoxy in the Catholic Church.


96 posted on 03/27/2013 1:43:34 PM PDT by JerseyanExile
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