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To: Lindykim

Well science is right... And only literalists (and contrarily to what is said Orthodox Jews aren't literalists) believe it is wrong...

The funny thing is that the literalists that think that Genesis is true don't understand symbols...

So the answer is, the evolution theory is as true as Newton's laws of gravity and as true as any scientific theory is...


9 posted on 11/11/2004 5:02:52 AM PST by Pitiricus
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To: Pitiricus
If "the evolution theory is as true as Newton's laws of gravity" - and I assume you have ignorantly mistaken Newton's laws of motion for "laws of gravity" - then, like Newton's laws of motion, it should be replicable by experiment.

However, evolution is not replicable by experiment, and so it remains a theory.

Additionally, it seems that you are unaware that a text can be, at one and the same time, literally true and theologically symbolic.

13 posted on 11/11/2004 5:19:18 AM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: Pitiricus
[ The funny thing is that the literalists that think that Genesis is true don't understand symbols... ]

Right. Whos to say "Genesis" is not a metaphor or a series of metaphors.. especially the Adam Eve story.. Seeing a metaphore as literal is like running to the window to see cats and dogs falling during a rain storm.. missing the whole copcept of its raining cats and dogs.

Various judeo-christian religions are good at that.. Since Jesus spoke mostly in parables(metaphors) what he was saying might have totally or partially been misunderstood too.

However current evolutionary theory stands completely against any God concept, unless "God" is "the force"... makeing God a fairy tale. When actually evolution is a fairy tale for ADULTS..

127 posted on 11/11/2004 11:37:25 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to included some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Pitiricus

Well put ..Evolution dosent negate God by any means either.


362 posted on 11/14/2004 8:08:38 PM PST by hineybona
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