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Author Topic:   Is the creation/evolution debate taboo in our churches?
Coragyps
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Message 37 of 51 (531524)
10-18-2009 11:29 AM
Reply to: Message 32 by Arphy
10-17-2009 11:36 PM


Re: About the question posed to the non-religious
If something is written in a historical narrative style, that is because it is historical narrative.
Like, for example, The Lord of the Rings?
Note that OEC ideas and the like do not originate from the bible.
No, they originated, at least in Europe, from Christians actually studying the rocks beneath their feet and thinking hard about what they saw. Exposure to reality, in other words. You can find quite a good number of books that are over 150 years old that demolish any notion of a 6000-year-old earth or a Noachic flood. The last century and a half of actual digging only nails those notions' coffin shut to the point that the coffin lid is all nailheads now, Arphy.

"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons, ca. 830 AD

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