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A lot of people read the bible, the fact they don't interpret like you, seems to be something you can't accept.
So, Johnny teaches this...at the right time God conferred His image to all people.(43:33) This idenity and function made humanity distinct from its genetic predecessors. Hmmmmmm, just where does the bible teach this?You might want to try reading John Walton.
That's cool, but I was a Christian for 40 years and actually it was a thorough investigation into the NT, that was one reason I am no longer a Christian.
But anyway, the majority of Christians agree with evolution and they don't feel the bible is useless. So, you stating the bible is useless with evolution, likely rings hollow with these majority of Christians, who accept evolution.
Would I be wrong to suggest you never were a christian...but rather just playing church?
I like to ask people who claim they were Christians, but no longer are:Would I be wrong to suggest you never were a christian...but rather just playing church?
You might want to try reading the Bible.
So, Johnny teaches this...at the right time God conferred His image to all people.(43:33) This idenity and function made humanity distinct from its genetic predecessors. Hmmmmmm, just where does the bible teach this?
Where does the bible say God did this to the evolving human population?
Sorry, a computer glitch interrupted my above email. Let me continue here. If God can rest content with an errant text, so can I.
Another key factor is how you view God as he is in his or her own nature. The classical Christian model of God is nowhere as biblical as it is a produce of certain schools of Hellenic philosophy which stressed the unreaity of the world of time and change. Hence, God was assumed to be wholly immutable. And if God doesn't change, then neither does the world, and so there cam be no evolution, period. However, this Hellenic model of God is not the only viable one. Modern theologians have provided an alternative model that dos allow for change in God and therefore major change in the world. I view creation as God's own self-evolution from unconsciousness and mere personality into consciousness and self-actuality.
One of John Walton's points is that the Bible says nothing about biological origins, and therefore it cannot come into conflict with the sciences which do address that question.
Not being a biologist myself, I tend to think twice about telling somebody who is a biologist that he doesn't know what he is talking, about when it comes to biology. I know creationists have no such compunction.
Huh? Nothing about biological origins? You completely lost me there pal. Genesis 1 is all about biological origins.
So, Johnny teaches this...at the right time God conferred His image to all people.(43:33) This idenity and function made humanity distinct from its genetic predecessors. Hmmmmmm, just where does the bible teach this?
Where does the bible say God did this to the evolving human population?
No, Genesis 1 is nötig about biological origins; not even close.
Where in the Bible does it say anything about nuclear physics? It doesn't, but is that supposed to prove? That nuclear reactors don't exist?
You need to add extra Biblical explanations to justify a literal interpretation.
As science has it, a day is:
"The period of time during which the Earth completes one rotation with respect to the Sun is called a solar day."
You would say that the earth rotated around the "light" in Genesis 1:3, yet that "light" would have to have the equivalent mass, energy, gravitational fields, etc, as the sun for the earth to rotate around it in the time of 24 hours. Now, either you're going to add something to the passage of Genesis 1:3 to justify this light, or use some obscure definition of "day". Let us see which, if not maybe both.
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I am not a biologist either and I am not trying to tell any biologist what he knows or doesn't know.
All I want is answers to my questions.
Obviously, NO biologist can satisfy me on any of my question yet.
Have you asked a question about evolution recently? Or you are trying to cheat yourself?
True, the bible doesn't talk about nuclear reactors...BUT IT DOES TALK ABOUT MANS CREATION. Perhaps your version says something different..but my version says Adam was formed from the dust the Eve from Adams rib. There isn't much room for evolutionism in there.
As a maths graduate I am more inclined to find physics interesting than biology, and, since I do not feel there to be a conflict between biology and Christianity, I have no reason to give biology much attention on that ground.
As a maths graduate I am more inclined to find physics interesting, rather than biology, and, since I do not feel there to be a conflict between biology and Christianity, I have no reason to give biology much attention on that ground.
Assuming you watched it at all, you certainly did not pay much attention to the talk given by that conservative OT scholar of 30 years standing.
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