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Again, you seem to have abandoned any pretense of defending your beliefs in a reasonable manner. So it's rather pointless to discuss such things with you because no matter what is said to you, when it's clear you have no defense you'll simply go "Well, faith." So why bother participating in the discussion at all?
Only considering evidence that confirms your belief isn't "setting faith aside."
When it comes to a Global Noah's flood and God cleaning up His mess afterwards, I think what's really happening here is that an imaginary story line is made up to fruitlessly explain why there is absolutely no evidence of said flood, and calling that "faith" in God.
Yeah, but there's plenty of evidence that suggests your belief is malarky. But why bother dealing with evidence when you can just arbitrarily reject anything and throw up a wall of invincible willful ignorance?
A quick disagreement, it's quite possible that Adam and Eve were real historical individuals but that they were inserted into cultural origin myths to connect a hereditary tribe with the primordial past. So while it's fair to say that the story we find Adam and Eve in is likely not true, we can't simply assert that they are entirely fictional creations.
Considering your unique understanding of what constitutes "Bible," your willingness to completely ignore anything approaching reason is quite obvious. Though you make a mockery of the word "faith" in doing so.
There was no Global Flood to clean up after.
I have no issues with faith, but only when directed directly towards opening one's heart to God.
All religions need a creation story. That's what set the ground work for the rest that follows. Adam and Eve are a part of the creation story of an ancient middle-eastern tribe of desert dwellers. And like many mythological stories, a person can find a lot of spiritual lessons in the ancient Biblical creation stores. But I don't think it's possible at all that a Biblical Adam and Eve existed. Especially with evolution as a background.
I think you're missing what I've actually said, cause I'm not suggesting that there was a first man and woman in the way that the Genesis narrative lays out. But the question of the truth of historical events and the existence of historical persons are two separate questions. There appears to be a decent amount of textual evidence to suggest that there was an ancient genre of literature where cultural myths were mixed with actual historical people to further some philosophical or theological point. For example, the events depicted in The Iliad are likely extremely exagerated and Roman myths were mixed in the whole story but a real conflict lying at the heart of the story is fairly probable. In the same way, the geneologies suggest that the people mentioned are real historical figures but the myths involved are clearly variations on regional creation stories that were already in existence. So the existence of Adam and Eve as real persons is entirely consistent with evolution, just not as the progenitors of the whole human species.
Doesn't really matter what you meant.
Yes, you've made it quite obvious that you have no interest in looking for what's true if it means you have to re-consider what you think the Bible says. And by Bible you mean the 1611 KJV, because prior to King Jimmy wanting a translation to build a claim of divine rule off of nobody had the Bible.
Since I'm not convinced of anything, I'd honestly start up a search for evidence of Noah's flood. I'd welcome the educational opportunity, since I'd have to learn a lot about geology.
