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Science doesn't seem to be hampered by vast timescales. They report no missing links or processes and can account for even the smallest change.
The narrative is presented as an actual event, not allegory, therefore I believe it was an actual event.
So are many parables. The Good Samaritan is such an example.The narrative is presented as an actual event, not allegory, therefore I believe it was an actual event.
Stephen King's book "The Shining" is written as an event, not allegory. However it is not a real event. (And is there a place in Genesis where it explicitly says "This story is 100% actual and really happened"?
Evolution must explain the origin of life
So are many parables. The Good Samaritan is such an example.
The Bible is found in the same place as the Koran and the Vedas. Do you take those other two seriously?So "The Shining" won't be found in the fiction section?
It's as good an explanation as any.
There's nothing unusual about a person helping another who is in trouble.
Parables are mainly taken from real life experiences.
So "The Shining" won't be found in the fiction section?
Stephen King's book "The Shining" is written as an event, not allegory. However it is not a real event. (And is there a place in Genesis where it explicitly says "This story is 100% actual and really happened"?
This approach would be to see early Genesis as a Cosmogonic statement of theology written as a historical account
OH, so you're saying that the Bible is TRUE because Barnes and Noble DOESN'T put it in the Fiction section?
Wow! (How did the Church Fathers know it was true millennia before B&N existed? Such are the mysteries of faith!)
...from my position, you're both right and wrong at the same time. Instead, I think that taking a "Conrad Hyers" approach to dealing with the nature of the narrative of early Genesis is more plausible as an explanation. This approach would be to see early Genesis as a Cosmogonic statement of theology written as a historical account rather than a literal, scientifically patterned history like we'd write today.
p.s. ...and I think this extends even to the first 11 chapters of Genesis, including the account(s) of Noah's Flood.
The "church fathers" (the prophets) recorded it in an unbroken succession for thousands of years. A cursory reading will reveal that the story is for believers, not unbelievers. Yet here on the forums we have unbelievers acting as biblical scholars.
Here's his third one ...Yes, that is an example of Clarke's Law.
The "church fathers" (the prophets) recorded it in an unbroken succession for thousands of years.
A cursory reading will reveal that the story is for believers, not unbelievers.
Yet here on the forums we have unbelievers acting as biblical scholars.
Leaving aside the fact that "church fathers" usually refers to theologians writing during the first four or five centuries of Christianity
Never-mind ... I just thought of a challenge!
You are still asking strange questions.
You are conflating abiogenesis and evolution. Abiogenesis is how the first life arose. It is similar but separate from evolution.
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