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This is saying exactly, in effect 'Either God is lying or not real'.
Since he explicitly said "symbolic", it would be best interpreted as "Either God meant it symbolically, or is not real". Unless you'd prefer to think He's a liar, which I suppose, strictly speaking, is something you can't absolutely discount.
 
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Since he explicitly said "symbolic", it would be best interpreted as "Either God meant it symbolically, or is not real". Unless you'd prefer to think He's a liar, which I suppose, strictly speaking, is something you can't absolutely discount.
Yes we can discount that figment of the evo imagination. And where 'symbolic' is applied to a basic truth of God's word to attempt to neuter it of real meaning that symbolism is satanism.
 
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Or it might be a poetic account meant to teach spiritual truths and values, not a scientific account of the beginning of the universe. ...

The evidence suggests both at the same time. The scriptures even explain this as to how God used actual events to communicate truths.
 
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.... I'm afraid your literalist philosophy does not trump the vast amounts of evidence from the real world that a historical Genesis 1 is impossible.

When Jesus caused a blind man to see, his history of blindness was made impossible in the same way. And when He caused a man to raise from the dead, his "deadness" was then impossible.

So when God works, vast amounts of evidence will point to it never happening. Yet His works remain.
 
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Here in this part of the country the glaciers left about 15 feet of muck behind. In other areas they were flooded and going under water. If that is not "ruin" then what is? Have you seen what global warming is doing to some of the towns in Alaska?

What has been left behind, we call soil in the midwest. I'm glad not to be living on the glacier that was here. The global climate has been unusually mild for the last 10,000 years and is showing signs of returning to it's normally chaotic patterns.
 
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You make a good case that public education should be eliminated. My wife is a public school teacher and there are many levels of ADDITIONAL problems that can really only be solved by getting government out of schools.

Kids causing violence on each other, sex in the (grade school) bathrooms, crack-baby kids, kids not attending 50% of the year. And mostly, kids not sitting down or shutting up so the 2-3 others can learn who want to.

Getting government out of schools is the best solution so we can crack down on the behavior problem kids and boot them out. Getting relegion out is not a problem. Getting sex offenders out is.
 
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That's because the Bible is not and never was intended to be science. The theory of evolution is science. Makes no difference in the end what the Bible was 'intended' to mean. It bears no relationship to science.
"That's because the Bible is not and never was intended to be [physical] science [dealing with laws, theories, knowledge and aspirations which can only complement a reducibility to physical instruments]"

Stop it.

Either Genesis is symbolic or it's false.

"Either Genesis is symbolic[-ally Darwinism] or it's false."

That's what you actually want to say right? Because even more creationism in an interpretation means still no Darwinism.
 
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It is so difficult to keep up with each Christian's interpretation of Genesis. Can't you guys agree on one standard so we have something falsifiable to debate?

Kind of like the various mechanisms for Evolution.
 
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How do you know Genesis 1 is the "exact" word of God?

Believing that it is so reveals much more meaning and truth than imagining that parts are not as they seem.

Lets take your example:
"How do you know Genesis 1 is the "exact" word of God?"

What does HOW really mean?
What does DO really mean?
Who is YOU?
What do the writer mean by KNOW?
Etc.


OR I can just take your question at face value and answer it as if you intended no hidden message or lies.
Not to say there is no hidden message. Just that the plain, literal interpretation gives the best results.
 
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"Either Genesis is symbolic[-ally Darwinism] or it's false."

That's what you actually want to say right? QUOTE]

No. But by all means carry on putting words into my mouth. It's what fundies are good at isn't it?
 
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Kind of like the various mechanisms for Evolution.

It is interesting to see evolutionists expectations of a better standard of evidence than they themselves can supply.

The day scientists realised how intricate a living single celled organism is eg bacteria, was the day they should have dropped the whole evolution thing. They didn't. Instead they invented terms like primitive cells, gave them a whole life story that is debated, and has not been observed to date, and called this science....Then separated the field of abiogenesis from evolution because it was such an embarassment!
 
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Yes we can discount that figment of the evo imagination. And where 'symbolic' is applied to a basic truth of God's word to attempt to neuter it of real meaning that symbolism is satanism.
You do realise you effectively just accused half the Christians on this forum of satanism?
 
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You do realize that abiogeneis has absolutely nothing to do with evolution don't you? Abiogenesis has never been a field of evolution, they describe two completely different processes.
 
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