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To: mnehring
Read the article - it is exactly that approach that is weakening the church. Either Genesis is right or evolution is right. Oil and water, they won't mix. Kind regards.
9 posted on 09/24/2009 8:48:53 AM PDT by vimto (To do the right thing you don't have to be intelligent - you have to be brave (Sasz))
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To: vimto
Either Genesis is right or evolution is right.

I, and many Christians disagree. As a great Christian leader said, the Bible teaches us "WHY", science teaches us "HOW". Man's understanding of what the Bible means, especially in terms of trying to use it as a scientific text, has proven flawed time and time again. Maybe, instead of looking at the two in conflict, look at all the discoveries we make and see how it illuminates what God wrote. God gave us a mind for a reason.

11 posted on 09/24/2009 8:51:27 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: vimto
Read the article - it is exactly that approach that is weakening the church. Either Genesis is right or evolution is right. Oil and water, they won't mix. Kind regards.

Actually, FRiend, the problem is generally not the supposed competition between Genesis and evolution, but rather the Christians who are rather unpleasantly strident about claiming that they are.

It ain't the science, brother ... it's often us Christians that are the problem.

32 posted on 09/24/2009 9:50:41 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: vimto

“Either Genesis is right or evolution is right.”

Wrong. Christianity and evolution are perfectly compatible. Faith and science are perfectly compatible.


34 posted on 09/24/2009 10:09:32 AM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: vimto
Either Genesis is right or evolution is right.

What's next? Either Newton's Optics are right or "the light of the eye" theory is right? Either the Bible is right or Gray's Anatomy is right?

The problem is with evolution being used to infer religion. It's no help to use religion to derive science.

Teach basic epistemology, avoid category errors, and do make kids choose between religion and science. It's a false choice and eventually you will lose - needlessly.

50 posted on 09/24/2009 12:31:39 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: vimto

Should be:

“DON’T make kids choose between religion and science.”


51 posted on 09/24/2009 12:32:43 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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