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To: stremba
All of this is perfectly consistent with the idea that man is a product of evolution, the same as all the other species of life on earth.

With this exception:

Gen: 2

[7] And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

379 posted on 02/08/2005 10:10:01 AM PST by houeto ("Mr. President , close our borders now!")
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To: houeto

If man is a product of evolution, is he not "formed from the dust of the ground"? If God created the first life, either directly or indirectly through the creation of laws of nature that led to the formation of life through natural processes, did He not "breath into his nostrils the breath of life"? I was assuming a figurative reading of the Scripture and asserting that evolution is consistent with that figurative reading. If you want to assert that the Bible is literally true, then you have problems other than evolution. For example, why do you have no problem with the Biblical assertion that the earth is fixed and does not move? I have heard it argued that relativity says it's correct to view things from a reference frame in which the earth is stationary. However, it's equally correct to view things from a reference frame in which the earth moves. Why then is there no problem with relativity?


390 posted on 02/08/2005 10:18:59 AM PST by stremba
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