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To: Junior

You may well be comfortable with the existence of the almighty. That would put you in the deistic camp, as I already posted.

I don't think an interpretation of Scripture which precludes evolution is narrow at all, but is rather reading the Bible in its entirety. Scripture, on the whole, teaches that God is utterly sovereign that He intervenes and directs all human events, including the rise and fall of governments, the weather, the good that happens to people, the bad that happens to people, etc. The players in the NT (including Jesus) obviously believed in a literal Flood and a literal Adam, that is, they simply believed the Hebrew scriptures were "true". Pauline theology explicitly hinges on the Fall happening in real space, real time, just as redemption happens in real space, real time.

I think a reading of Scripture which says also that "evolution is true" is superficial.

Also...since this thread is full of obviously rigorous logicians, I don't think the argument that countless of "church-going Christians" support evolution is evidence that there is much understanding of either evolution or Scripture. Let's face it, most people are ignorant in the extreme - although most people also purport to be experts at, well, almost everything. That holds true whether you are talking about the Bible, about the Constitution, or about evolution.


158 posted on 08/02/2005 7:20:43 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: ConservativeDude

I base my interpretation of Scripture on how it matches up to the real world (that is the only way to test the validity of any belief system). Evolution is supported by the evidence (and millions of pages of it collected and tested for more than a century and a half). If an interpretation of Scripture discards this evidence and the conclusions drawn from it, then it is the interpretation that is lacking.


161 posted on 08/02/2005 7:23:19 AM PDT by Junior (Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
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To: ConservativeDude
Scripture, on the whole, teaches that God is utterly sovereign that He intervenes and directs all human events, including the rise and fall of governments, the weather, the good that happens to people, the bad that happens to people, etc.

You would hold, then, that God specifically initiates each individual weather event ... rather than, say, having set a system in motion which then functions according to certain physical laws?

615 posted on 08/02/2005 12:44:40 PM PDT by malakhi
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