[Modernman]

The bible says that God created life on earth, then made the stars and planets. Finding an amoeba on another planet would be quite a big problem to fundamentalists. In other words, it destroys our whole world view.

Hmm.... If we say that everything the Bible says is literally true (leaving aside the whole "created in God's image" problem), I'm not sure the existence of microbes necesarily is a problem. After all, the Bible can be literally true, but at the same time it can be incomplete. I don't think the Bible ever claims to be a complete description of everything in reality.

[biblewonk]

Hmm.... If we say that everything the Bible says is literally true (leaving aside the whole "created in God's image" problem), I'm not sure the existence of microbes necesarily is a problem. After all, the Bible can be literally true, but at the same time it can be incomplete. I don't think the Bible ever claims to be a complete description of everything in reality.

No, infact it claims to be the opposite at the very end of John where it says that if all the books were written do describe all that Jesus did, the world wouldn't hold all of the books. But there are certain things that it is complete and exhaustive about. It says God can't lie therefore we can't find a lie that was excluded. It is this type of logic that leads us to believe the world is the spiritual center of the universe and that evolution is impossible based on the organization of the things created in the 6 days of creation.

[Quix]

I don't want to get off topic, but . . .

I don't see "made in God's image" any kind of problem. There are dozens of ways to make something in someone's or something's image.