What do you think about "intelligent design"?

[Nathan Poe]

Originally posted by Rising_Suns

"Anyone who claims to be scientific must always accept the possibility that their ideas or theories are wrong, and be prepared to abandon them when they're proven wrong."


Too bad all scientists don't think like this.

This is true. Alas, scientists, for all their training, are only human, and vulnerable to the same prejudices and dogmas as anyone else.

 Here's my take on how God created life:

(Intersting but long cosmology snipped)

Anyway, I got off on a tangent here. I think you now see where I'm coming from?

An interesting form of Theistic Evolution. I may not necessarily agree with all of it, but I do see where you're coming from. So we agree to disagre.

 Someone, I forget who, once said, "Science explains how, religion explains why." Personally, I can live with that.

 

[Sinai]

Originally posted by Rising_Suns
I for one am not a fundamentalist that needs to take the bible on a word-for-word literal interpretation....or you can say that Adam was the male creature given the first soul and eve was the female creature given the first soul....either way you choose, evolution took place as well as creation.

I'm not sure how much support you are likely to find among fellow Christians for all your interpretation or theory, but you might be interested to know that the Bible does not necessarily close the door on the possibility that there could have been manlike creatures (and possibly even humans) prior to Adam--but that Adam was the first complete human being (i.e., the first man to have a soul).

Hebrew has two words for soul, nefesh (or nephesh) and neshama (or nishmath), and both come into play in the first two chapters of Genesis. When Genesis 1:21 tells us that “God created…every living creature,” it signifies that all animals (humans included) are infused with the nefesh or soul of life--i.e., they are living creatures. When humans are mentioned a few verses later (Genesis 1:27 and 2:7), the text tells of a further creation that distinguishes humans from lower animals: The third “creation” mentioned in the first chapter of Genesis is of our human soul (or God's spirit or God's breath of life or the capacity to fellowship with God), our neshama (the first two “creations” were of the universe and of life).

The closing of Genesis 2:7 has a subtlety lost in the English: It is usually translated as: “…and [God] breathed into his nostrils the neshama of life and the adam became a living soul” (Gen. 2:7). Dr. Gerald Schroeder has noted that the Hebrew text actually states: “…and the adam became to a living soul.” Nahmanides--over seven hundred years ago--wrote that the “to” (the Hebrew letter lamed prefixed to the word “soul” in the verse) is superfluous from a grammatical stance and so must be there to teach something. Lamed, he noted, indicates a change in form and may have been placed there to describe mankind as progressing through stages of mineral, plant, fish, and animal. Finally, upon receiving the neshama, that creature which had already been formed became a human. He concludes his extensive commentary on the implications of this lamed by saying “it may be that the verse is stating that [prior to receiving the neshama] it was a completely living being and [by the neshama] it was transformed into another man.”