[Jehu]

Evolutionary Theory is hostile to the very core of Christian belief. You cannot impute original sin to the human race if we all descended from tribes of apes. No original parents, no sin in those parents (thus transmitted to all offspring). No orginal sin committed by the first parents? Then sin cannot be removed by the new head of the human race...Christ. Article of faith, but never the less you cannot smuggle the ideas of Evolution into true Christian faith. Your faith becomes worthless. Either we are damned under inescapable sin and in need of a Divine deliverer, or we can work it out ourselves. So far I see no evidence that humanity can work out how to bring peace to the Middle East, let alone deliver itself from greed, lust, hatred, wars, violence, perversion...no matter how smart we think we have become. Smarter we get, the more lethal our weapons.

[shubi]

Your point is that apes don't sin? This is why creationism is so much fun. Good thing I wasn't drinking coffee when I read this one.

[conservative_crusader]

"Evolutionary Theory is hostile to the very core of Christian belief."

I'm kind of hesitant to believe that... imagine when God revealed the creation of man to moses. If he fast forwarded the process he would first see nothing, (although bacteria were present) and then he would see a man forming from the dust.

"You cannot impute original sin to the human race if we all descended from tribes of apes. No original parents, no sin in those parents (thus transmitted to all offspring). No orginal sin committed by the first parents?"

you also seem to support that being descended from apes means that a human could not have commited original sin, au contraire, no animal is bound under the law, but humans are. God told Adam not to eat of the fruit... if he told an ape, its not mentioned in the Bible.

"Then sin cannot be removed by the new head of the human race...Christ."

sure it can. is your faith so small that you put God in a box so that he is incapable of using evolution as a tool?

" Article of faith, but never the less you cannot smuggle the ideas of Evolution into true Christian faith."

I honestly do not believe we were descended from apes... but even if we were it does not matter. Jesus still died for my sins.

" Either we are damned under inescapable sin and in need of a Divine deliverer, or we can work it out ourselves."

Amen

"So far I see no evidence that humanity can work out how to bring peace to the Middle East, let alone deliver itself from greed, lust, hatred, wars, violence, perversion...no matter how smart we think we have become. Smarter we get, the more lethal our weapons."

I realize this is non-sequiter to the topic, but is greed really that bad? I mean wanting to get ahead is what capitalism is centered around. I can see where hatred might be a problem. but are wars and violence necessarily bad? i mean God told Moses and the Hebrews to smash the city of Jericho... If you honestly believe god is omni-benevolent, then this couldn't have been wrong. And i think you're right about perversion. Thats definitely a bad thing.