[Modernman]

The Bible is a theological work with historical overtones. It is neither a history book nor a biology text.

I'll go even further- the Bible is a textbook on morality and ethics. That is what people should focus on when they read the Bible, not some vague creation myths which have little or nothing to do with the major themes of the Bible.

Would Jesus' moral message be any less powerful if humans evolved from single-celled organisms?

[ZULU]

"Would Jesus' moral message be any less powerful if humans evolved from single-celled organisms?"


Obviously not. But then, we don't think like fundamentalists. They exhibit the same kind of thinking the Inquisition did when Galileo talked about the moons of Jupiter.

[Frapster]

Would Jesus' moral message be any less powerful if humans evolved from single-celled organisms?

Yes, he himself refers to Adam. That would either make him misinformed and finite in his knowledge and therefore less than God or it would make him a liar.