Not necessarily. Even if evolution were true, there had to be a first man and woman.
and the absolute "base" of scripture is flawed.. and if the base is flawed the rest is in jeopardy of being mere "literature" or even a "tall tale".. or even a yarn of wishful thinking for "simple" people to answer complex issues of this life
That's only true if you assume that the first chapters of Genesis were intended to be literal, scientific descriptions of how the World was formed. I don't make this assumption. Upon what basis do you make it?
The transportation is what evolution is all about.. The bible is about what the spirit(s) is about..Apples and oranges really,p> I couldn't have said it better myself. This is precisely why there is no inherent conflict between the evolution and the Bible.
Unless "the god of the bible" is mentally challenged like all his believers.. and posed a simple story for simple people.. You know a yarn that they could grasp.. Must be so.. at least for me..
It wasn't a yarn. The first chapters of Genesis are a story that conveys the essential spiritual truths using certain symbolic and allegorical language in a simple way that an unsophisticated an uncultured group of herders could understand. I don't understand why some Christians are so resistant to this notion.
The "Yarn" of evolution is way too convoluted for me.. but then I could care less where my transportation came from..
You're aboslutely right: from a spiritual standpoint, the details of how God shaped man's body are irrelevant. He could have used evolution or any other means; it just plain does not matter. Whey then do you insist on denying the science of evolution?
Perhaps because Jesus Christ (and even his enemies) accepted these accounts as factual and historical? Was he an unsophisticated goat-herder, too? In the context of Creation, for example, what is "symbolic" and "allegorical" and "spiritual" about male and female? What is "allegorical" about Noah?
Here's a hypothesis for you: what if the first eleven chapters of Genesis were essentially diaries, or family histories of the participants themselves, engraved on tablets, which were saved and eventually translated by Moses? There is some support in the structure of the texts for this theory.
Moses apparently bought into the historial thing, too. He did make the six days of creation part of the Ten Commandments. Or was it God who did that?
Cordially,