This whole “creation Vs. evolution” debate would make our spiritual fathers quite upset, I would guess.
In fact, I would guess that an exegesis of the Bible would support a guided *evolution* way more than an instant Creation.
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No where in the entire Old Testament do they talk about God making a material universe. The Hebrew word for “Create” found in Genesis is “bar’a”. To *that* culture, bar’a meant “assign function”—NOT make out of nothing. Material structure is our concern; the ancients didn’t care about it, they cared about function/purpose.
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Jonathan Highness
I don’t know what the Hebrew words are in Genesis, but however the process (or time period) He did it, God creating the Universe out of nothing, and He being distinct from that creation, is an essential to a Christian world view—just as essential as God being a trinity. (Also, if love is an essential part of God, then there has to be a plurality in God..that plurality being the trinity—along with an essential unity, God being one.)
Ex nihlo creation (not necessarily what we understand as “creationism”) is a philosophical essential. Evolution (as distinct from naturalist evolutionism...a philosophy) and ex nihlo creation don’t seem to have any necessary essential conflict, in my opinion.
You are on the wrong track.
The issue is not evolution vs creation. It is unintelligent natural forces vs intelligence.
Read, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catholicact/message/7763
So, ask the question:
Is evolution driven by blind natural forces, or by intelligence?
Similarly, the question can be asked: is creation done by blind natural forces or by intelligence?
Eg. the creation or evolution of your computer.