What Scriptures support Evolution?

[shernren]

If they had read many of your posts as I have and those of the others who have likewise sold their souls to Darwin and/or when push comes to shove, those who diss Genesis history as written by Moses and confirmed by the New Testament authors will always take a back seat to Evolutionary guesswork; yes, they would come to the same conclusions.

By the way: I've been posting on two other Christian boards.

Thought I would clear the air and move on to others who might want some answers and not waste time with those who think they have answers.

May the Lord bless you and keep you;
May the Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you;
May the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace -

if not here, then elsewhere. Now go.

 

[theFijian]

Thought I would clear the air and move on to others who might want some answers and not waste time with those who think they have answers.

So ... do you have the answers?

 

[rcorlew]

Here is a good scripture that supports evolution which is the OP after all

13 But Cain answered the LORD, "My punishment [f] is too great to bear! 14 Since You are banishing me today from the soil, and I must hide myself from Your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me." (I)

 

[Nietzscheiswrong]

Lol.

 

[Nietzscheiswrong]

"I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?" (Ecclesiastes 3:18-21, KJV).

^ Here we have scripture proclaiming that Man is an animal, in accordance with evolutionary theory. It may not talk about evolution directly, but it at least supports TOE. Also, the person you were debating with is drastically wrong; evolution is by no means synonymous with Darwin - the theory dates as far back as the 4th century BC, and was espoused by numerous ancient philosophers from Zhuangzi to Anaximander to Archelaus.

I didn't know that! even atoms were a philosophical disputation in that time! Wow.

Thanks to religious fundamentalism and the clerical culture we have arrived at those conclusions 2000 years later.

 

[Nietzscheiswrong]

Ah, but why should we take that any more literally than the six day creation belief, Mr. Mallon? Maybe God meant that the earth itself is the womb and He impregnated the earth with seeds from space... a la panspermia. Maybe God is speaking of the womb as the entire universe and the E.T.'s (i.e. 2001 a Space Odyssey) causes everything to happen.Why not? You can stretch it any way you want it once you leave the plain spoken expression as is seen in the Bible.

Whoa you got it! One cell in the womb evolves into a kid and from one cell in the water (the child is also surrounded by water in the womb) life evolved on planet earth!...Ever heard of MOTHER nature?

 

[artybloke]

Any student of English that has read this knows very well that these words speak of the death (the literal death) of Macduff.

Yes, and anybody who's actually seen MacBeth at the theatre or on TV will know that it falls into the genre "dramatic writing" as opposed to the genre "historical writing" so whether it is intended literally in the context of telling a largely fictional story is irrelevant to whether it was intended to be "factual" or not.

Or did you never teach the distinction between fact & fiction in your English classes?

 

[Schroeder]

Technically nothing in science is proven, as new evidence can always show current theories are wrong at least in some detail. Theory, in science, does mean well-established as very probably true through much study, observation, experimentation and successful prediction of consequences.



Evolution is a fact too. The problem of reconciling these two facts is due more to a limited imagination than to actual conflict.

yes evolution is a fact. its the theory of it that is not. which way to many people over look. they say evolution meaning the theory when the two are not the same thing.

 

[Schroeder]

i could tolerate a long earth but not the theory of evolution. everything evolved from its original creation. the idea of life from one ancestry to all life is not proven even closely.

 

[artybloke]

i could tolerate a long earth but not the theory of evolution.

Unfortunately, the facts don't care what you tolerate. Evolution is a fact, whether you tolerate it or not.