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What is the end goal for creationists these days?

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juvenissun

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Sure he does, he just believes it happened in a different way to what yo u believe.

He can not start that kind of interpretation. Otherwise, many many messages in the Bible could be twisted in the same way. This is his fatal mistake.

He needs to admit first: God creates. Then he can work on the rest of the science.
 
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He can not start that kind of interpretation. Otherwise, many many messages in the Bible could be twisted in the same way. This is his fatal mistake.
Is interpretation reserved for someone with your skill set and forbidden ground for mere mortals? (Hint: asserting that a passage is literal is in itself an interpretation.)
 
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Is interpretation reserved for someone with your skill set and forbidden ground for mere mortals? (Hint: asserting that a passage is literal is in itself an interpretation.)

In Christianity, there is no interpretation to the nature of God's creation.
I don't interpret. I read.
 
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People talked to me about it. I am not a biologist.

So no, you haven't read it, so you can't say what it says.

That makes your previous statement to the contrary pretty useless...
 
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In Christianity, there is no interpretation to the nature of God's creation.
I don't interpret. I read.
Ah. I see. So you only read the Bible in the original Hebrew and Greek. I hadn't understood that.

Edit: On reflection, how do you adopt the mind set of a tribal nomad from several millenia ago, in order not to put an anachronistic gloss on what you read in the original Hebrew? It must be quite a challenge.
 
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