"Anything is possible in G_d. Even evolution. I still do not see the conflict between salvation and science."
I see a conflict. God says there was no death until the sin of Adam. Evolution says you got to keep dying to develop and adapt.
You either believe the truth of the Bible or believe something else. Both can't be rigth.
WKUHilltopper...you raise an interesting, but hardly new, point, in your post #104...many on these crevo threads have raised the very same issue, that there was no death until the sin of Adam and that evolution says you got to keep dying to develop and adapt...that particular thought, has been floating around these crevo threads for some time now...
But as recently as yesterday,someone else raised this very point and then , I saw someone else give quite an eloquent rebuttal to this, and so I reprint it here for you to consider...
MHGinTN...since these two posts I reprint here were your posts, I am pinging you, tho I know, you said, that you really do not have a lot of interest on these crevo threads....however, I think that your post was spot on regarding these questions about death relating to Adam, and Evolution...hope you dont mind my using your words...
WKUHilltopper...here is MHGinTNs post......"As a Christian, I cannot pass on this one: "How about the Fall of Man, a fundamental tenant of the Christian faith? How can evolution have occurred before the Fall? Before death and corruption were introduced into Creation?" The fall to which you refer is 'death on a spiritual level' and as best my Christian reading can instruct me, plants and animals aren't vested with a spirit, though they have a soul of life since they do die. Is it so great a stretch to your faith to realize that spiritual forces do manifest in physical and living consequences? Of course not ... so please try to check dogma at the door when entering these evo-crevo threads because your narrowness is embarrassing to fellow Christians like myself."
And then there is this follow-posts of MHGinTN...
"Were these critics to focus upon the advent of spirit in the human soul/animal soul, I would see the debates as constructive. But to confuse soul and spirit in the name of 'doing God's heavy lifting on the nature of the universe we've been given to explore' is an exercise in futility. I don't believe the spirit component of humankind has been evolving for ttens or hundreds or millions of years. But the fossil record indicates the physical bodies and accompanying forms for function have been. In short, the human spirit hasn't evolved from apes or amoebas, but the science we have seems to indicate that the body used to inveigle spirit into the universe of space and time and life-force has descended from such. It's kind of like arguing whether the body Jesus occupied could have held 'all of God' ... Philip got a lecture on that very topic, BTW."
WKUHilltopper...you may not agree with these posts, but surely they offer a fine rebuttal to your claims about death...
This is assuming that you have complete understanding of G_d's word. Do you read the Bible in Greek, Hebrew, or English?