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In today's world, we've got bigger fish to fry than the argument about evolution.
Why Christians and conservatives should NOT accept evolution.
If they accept macroevolution they believe God is a liar.
There is no conflict between Christianity and evolution.
There is a conflict between biblical literalists and evolution. Not much doubt about that.
This is actually a contradiction in conservative thought that I've been thinking about quite a bit. Conservatives normally have no problem accepting systemic logic, especially when it comes to economics. As far as I can tell, evolution versus ID is the sole exception to this. Of course, this explains why the evolution versus ID "debate" (I know that there are several who are opposed to even calling it a "debate") rages as fiercely as it does even at the epicenter of conservative thought on the Internet.
Yeah, I've been reading a lot of Thomas Sowell lately.
Oh, man this should be good....1-2-3 GO!
Be nice? Wonder why he didn't give us background on himself... From wikipedia
Michael Shermer made a guest appearance in a 2004 episode of Penn&Teller's: Bullshit!, in which he argued that the Christian sacred text was "mythic storytelling" and that literal interpretation of events described therein would be "to miss the point of the Bible."[1] His stance was supported by the show's hosts, whose fierce atheist positions are renowned. The episode in question, The Bible: Fact or Fiction?, sought to debunk the notion that the Holy Bible is an empirically reliable historical record. Opposing Shermer was Dr. Paul Maier, professor of ancient history at Western Michigan University.
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-- Occam
This should have been posted earlier.
Umm, although I think a case could be made for Christianity and evolution co-existing and perhaps even being consistent, this certainly isn't it.
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Last I checked, despite having tossed Second Maccabees, the only explicit Scriptural support for creation ex nihilo, out of their canon, protestants don't believe in the eternal existence of matter, much less of living being in their present form.
Can any Christian who believes in evolution please explain one thing to me...at what point between apes and humans did God decide to give humans a soul? Was it a specific generation, ie. a mother and father weren't given souls, but their children were? Or did the soul evolve along with the ape-men?
That's a classic example of begging the qwestion.
Creationism is bad theology.
This is not only begging the question, but the author proceeds to bait-and-switch:
The watchmaker God of intelligent-design creationism is delimited to being a garage tinkerer piecing together life out of available parts.
The "watchmaker" God is a deist notion. And creationism does not believe in "available parts" but that God created everything ex nihilo
Evolution explains original sin and the Christian model of human nature.
No it does not. The author is completely unaware of what the doctrine of Original Sin is.
Evolution explains family values.
So does creationism.
Evolution accounts for specific Christian moral precepts.
And excludes others.
Evolution explains conservative free-market economics.
It also explains complete despotism as well. Evolutionism, unlike Christianity, does not inherently favor liberty - in fact, it undermines the concept.
I'm a Southern Baptist, but I don't believe that evolution is inconsistent with the Bible. It's only inconsistent with some folk's INTERPRETATION of the Bible.
But I would point out that the Priests claimed that Jesus could not be the Christ because he was from Nazareth, and the Messiah was supposed to come from Bethlehem.
There are lots of places in the Bible where people misinterpreted what was said in the scriptures. In order to be a Christian, you don't need to disbelieve evolution. You only need to believe that Christ is God, that He died on the cross for our sins, and that He rose again.
Scientific American has slipped increasingly leftwards for many years.
Believing evolution is fine for those who reject God's revelation of Himself, create God in their own image, and thereby feel comfortable in worshipping their own creation.
Romans 1
Gen 1:1 In the beginning G*D created the heaven and the earth.
Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools