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To: Alter Kaker

Then you must just have a problem with the Bible. Either God created humans in their present form (per Genesis) or He didn't.


157 posted on 12/21/2005 7:31:56 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: mlc9852

"Then you must just have a problem with the Bible. Either God created humans in their present form (per Genesis) or He didn't."

Are you a young earth creationist? I mean you either are or are not taking liberties with interpretations.


168 posted on 12/21/2005 7:35:42 AM PST by ndt
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To: mlc9852
Then you must just have a problem with the Bible. Either God created humans in their present form (per Genesis) or He didn't.

I think Genesis is correct, but it's what God told wandering goat-herders 5000 years ago --- isn't a science textbook and can't be read as such. Instead its purpose is to tell us of the supremacy of God and of His central importance in our universe.

169 posted on 12/21/2005 7:36:30 AM PST by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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To: mlc9852
Then you must just have a problem with the Bible. Either God created humans in their present form (per Genesis) or He didn't.

Genesis 2:7: Then G-d formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

"Formed," according to various sources I've seen, being related to the work of a potter. A potter does not instantly create. He molds and forms his work over time... Which is a rather good analogy to for evolution.

To the originally Hebrews the Bible was given to -- who spoke the language it was written in as their everyday language -- the Bible would not have spoken of instant creation, but of gradual creation over time.

I have no problems with the Biblical account of creation; I have no problems with evolution.

183 posted on 12/21/2005 7:42:27 AM PST by Celtjew Libertarian (Shake Hands with the Serpent: Poetry by Charles Lipsig aka Celtjew http://books.lulu.com/lipsig)
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