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To: chuck_the_tv_out
I really think that Darwinian evolution has been the biggest enemy of Christianity in the last two hundred years.

Jesus literally believed in Genesis 1 through 11. Genesis 1 through 11 is where all of the important doctrines of Christianity come from. Where does marriage between one man and one woman come from? Adam and Eve. Where does death and suffering come from? Adam and Eve's original sin. Why does man have a sin nature? Adam and Eve poisoned the whole human race at the beginning. Jesus literally believed in Adam and Eve, and Noah and the Flood.

If you are a Christian, you need to go to the Institute for Creation Research and read their material. It is very scientifically documented. Learn to be a defender of the Biblical account of creation. Evolution is wrong, wicked, and sinful. There are holes big enough in evolution to drive trucks through. If you can keep an open mind, you will be able to see them.

29 posted on 02/08/2009 10:08:49 AM PST by CompProgrammer
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To: CompProgrammer
I really think that Darwinian evolution has been the biggest enemy of Christianity in the last two hundred years... Where does death and suffering come from? Adam and Eve's original sin. Why does man have a sin nature? Adam and Eve poisoned the whole human race at the beginning.

It's interesting to read, first-hand, the full grotesque anti-Christiany of famous evolutionists such as this by Ernst Haeckel. And here's an example of the issue you point out in your comment:

First, as to Adam and the Fall and inherited sin. Evolution, historical research, and scientific criticism have disposed of Adam. Adam was a myth. Hardly any educated Christians now regard him as an historic person. But -- no Adam, no Fall; no Fall, no Atonement; no Atonement, no Saviour. Accepting Evolution, how can we believe in a Fall? When did man fall? Was it before he ceased to be a monkey, or after? Was it when he was a tree man, or later? Was it in the Stone Age, or the Bronze Age, or in the Age of Iron? There never was any "Fall." Evolution proves a long, slow rise. And if there never was a Fall, why should there be any Atonement? Christians accepting the theory of evolution have to believe that God allowed the sun to form out of the nebula, and the earth to form from the sun. That He allowed man to develop slowly from the speck of protoplasm in the sea. That at some period of man's gradual evolution from the brute, God found man guilty of some sin, and cursed him. That some thousands of years later God sent His only Son down upon the earth to save man from Hell. But Evolution shows man to be, even now, an imperfect creature, an unfinished work, a building still undergoing alterations, an animal still evolving... (pg. 124)

Are we to believe that the God who created all this boundless universe got so angry with the children of the apes that He condemned them all to Hell for two score centuries, and then could only appease His rage by sending His own Son to be nailed upon a cross ? Do you believe that? Can you believe it? No. As I said before, if the theory of evolution be true, there was nothing to atone for, and nobody to atone. Man has never sifined against God. In fact, the whole of this old Christian doctrine is a mass of error. There was no creation. There was no Fall. There was no Atonement. There was no Adam, and no Eve, and no Eden, and no Devil, and no Hell. (pg. 125)

For whereas the Christian theory of free will and personal responsibility results in established ignorance and injustice, with no visible remedies beyond personal denunciation, the prison, and a few coals and blankets, the Determinist method would result in the abolition of lords and burglars, of slums and palaces, of caste and snobbery. There would be no ignorance and no poverty left in the world. That is because the Determinist understands human nature, and the Christian does not. It is because the Determinist understands morality, and the Christian does not. For the Determinist looks for the cause of wrong-doing in the environment of the wrong-doer. While the Christian puts all the wrongs which society perpetrates against the individual, and all the wrongs which the individual perpetrates against his fellows down to an imaginary "free will." (pg. 142--144)

--Robert Blatchford


33 posted on 02/09/2009 6:06:26 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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