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To: BackInBlack
Scripture says that death entered the world following Adam's sin.

Evolution says that death has been with us since the beginning.

Salvation is irrelevant in an evolutionary world. Jesus is an irrelevant fraud in an evolutionary world.

82 posted on 11/18/2005 6:11:49 AM PST by Theo
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To: Theo
Salvation is irrelevant in an evolutionary world. Jesus is an irrelevant fraud in an evolutionary world.

That's great, as long as evolution is false. The problem is that there is massive amounts of evidence that evolution is true, even though you've obviously ignored it.

So now your problem is that you've set up a situation where one must either reject the physical proof of evolution, or reject mere words printed in a Bible with nothing whatever to back them up.

Or, you can take the direction the Catholic church did. Accept both evolution and the Bible. Problem solved.

As for myself, I decided that your position was correct, that I had to accept one or the other. So I rejected God in favor of the physical evidence I see of evolution.

Your god is a fantasy god that is so weak that he can't exist alongside the facts of the natural world.

85 posted on 11/18/2005 6:21:29 AM PST by narby (Hillary! The Wicked Witch of the Left)
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To: Theo

"Scripture says that death entered the world following Adam's sin. Evolution says that death has been with us since the beginning."

These are different kinds of death. When Jesus says we must die so we may live, He isn't referring to a literally, physical death, but to the end of our fleshy desires and ambitions and submission to His. Death in this context is equivalent of separation from God. This symbolic meaning of death is crystal clear to anyone who reads the Bible without in earnest to see what God intended rather than with the idea that it means whatever you want it to mean, like liberals interpreting the Constitution.

"Salvation is irrelevant in an evolutionary world. Jesus is an irrelevant fraud in an evolutionary world."

Salvation isn't the least bit irrelevant. I am not quite sure how to debate this one, because I don't see how you come to that conclusion.


89 posted on 11/18/2005 7:08:07 AM PST by BackInBlack ("The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.")
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