And incidentally, the Bible already HAS gone through EXTREMELY radical changes to create your current understanding of God!
If we start with the first books, they were written... when? At least around 1500 BC?
Books were continually written and started to be accepted as "scripture" over the next 1500 years.
No sooner did the Jews start to decide exactly which books were in the official Bible and which were out, than along comes an entire new movement which RADICALLY departed from the prevailing understanding of God. All of a sudden God wasn't just the holy and transcendent Creator God, he was also (and more primarily) a Father who was prepared to sacrifice His Son for the sins of mankind.
This was such a radical change that it didn't just modify Judaism, it created an entire new major world religion.
I think your point was along the lines of "Darwin didn't get it right, but the Bible has always been right and hasn't had to be changed."
Sorry, it just doesn't wash. Our understanding of God, even the basic form of todays Bible, has taken, at a bare MINIMUM, at least 1,500 years of thought, debate and councils to take shape. Our understanding of evolution has only been in play for 1/10th of that amount of time.
There have been books added since the book of Genesis (which is over 2000 years old at the least), yes; but the following books, have they been consistent with what Genesis states about God? Or have they contradicted, or found inaccurate, what Genesis states? Please give an example of any part of the text of the book of Genesis in the Bible that is different from our understanding of God today.
And how does Darwin’s theory in “On the Origin of Species” do as to consistency with new findings? Do you think that new findings in evolution compliment or contradict, or even find Darwin to be inaccurate? There have been books on the theory of evolution since “On the Origin of Species”, yes; but have these books been consistent with what “On the Origin of Species”states about evolution? Or have they contradicted, or found inaccurate, what Darwin wrote?
”All of a sudden God wasn't just the holy and transcendent Creator God, he was also (and more primarily) a Father who was prepared to sacrifice His Son for the sins of mankind.”
I see a compliment here, where is the contradiction?
”Our understanding of God, even the basic form of todays Bible, has taken, at a bare MINIMUM, at least 1,500 years of thought, debate and councils to take shape. Our understanding of evolution has only been in play for 1/10th of that amount of time.”
Do you equate the changes of our understanding of God with what has been written in the text? I see a difference between understanding and what has been written. Our understanding is nothing more than what we see at our vantage point, this can be different from person to person; but the text of Genesis has not changed over the 2000 years to say that God is any different from the God of the rest of the books in the Bible, or vice versa. Can you say that “in 1/10 of the time” the writings of the theory of evolution are no different from the theory of evolution’s genensis in the text of “On the Origin of Species?”
“Scientists (and the general population) are not abandoning evolution. Over time, even as our understanding of the process becomes more complex, the opposite is happening.”
I believe your right about the opposite is happening, but could it be because more and more scientist are trying to come up with a new theory to combat the vacuous holes in the theory of evolution?