Christian Evolutionists....

[seebs]

Originally posted by chickenman
seebs, there does seem to be some evidence for a large "local" flood of the black sea - its not a global flood, but it is a big flood

search "black sea flood" on google, I think theres a national geographic site on it

I've heard that before; actually, Orson Scott Card referred to it in one of his books.

However, even then, the story of Noah and his ark is, IMHO, "myth". Some myths were born in stories of a thing which happened, but you still can't treat their events as history.

 

[David Gould]

Exactly. I beleived that the creation story in Genesis was a myth born out of actual real events - God creating the world and so forth.

What's the big deal with that?

 

[seebs]

Originally posted by David Gould
Exactly. I beleived that the creation story in Genesis was a myth born out of actual real events - God creating the world and so forth.

What's the big deal with that?

I've never seen the big deal, myself. But, keep in mind, I never in my life believed that Genesis was word-for-word literal history. I can still remember the first time I saw an estimate for the age of the earth; it was 4.5 billion years, and it was in a comic book. I never really thought twice about it; the number sounded reasonable at the time.

To this day, I've always found young-earth just plain incomprehensible. I recognize it as perfectly reasonable theology, but it's really hard for me to understand how people can come up with it as a "scientific" belief.

 

[npetreley]

Originally posted by seebs
I am not aware of any archeological evidence for anything in Genesis.

You may not be aware of it, but there's plenty, starting with Genesis 9.

 

[LiveFreeOrDie]

Originally posted by npetreley
You may not be aware of it, but there's plenty, starting with Genesis 9.

What in Genesis 9, in particular, do you think we have archaeological evidence for?

 

[seebs]

Originally posted by LiveFreeOrDie

What in Genesis 9, in particular, do you think we have archaeological evidence for?

I will, BTW, freely grant that we have good solid archeological evidence that Genesis 9 was written at some point, and I believe we have some evidence that some of that text had been around for a long time.

 

[sbbqb7n16]

So do you take the whole Bible to be full of myths and the like or just Genesis?