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To: CIACrack

Sounds like argument from antiquity to me. Yet another logical fallacy. Just because the Bible predates evolution and big bang theories, it doesn't hold that the Biblical account is true and the modern theories false. The Bible was written for the people of that time and subsequent times to use as a guide to life. It would have made little sense for God to include theories which the people reading the Bible wouldn't understand for several thousand years. The Bible had to be written in terms that would be understood by people living in all ages. For example, the Bible says that God created all of the different animal species. If you built a machine that made widgets, would you say that you built widgets or that the machine built the widgets. Similarly, it's possible that God built the "machine" of evolution to create all of the animal species. But several thousand years ago, when man didn't have machines to create other items, people may not have understood this idea. If God had written "I have created a cell and this cell will mutate and those mutations that are conducive to the reproductive success of the organism shall survive" would people four thousand years ago have understood? Similarly, when God said "let there be light" could this not have been the event that started the big bang? Would readers of the bible three thousand years ago have understood, "let the space-time continuum begin to expand"? The point is that science and religion are not contradictory. There is one truth, and anything that leads toward that truth cannot be contradictory. If it seem contradictory to us, it is because of our limited understanding.


349 posted on 08/04/2004 5:44:10 AM PDT by stremba
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