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Message 72 of 78 (130968)
08-06-2004 10:29 AM
Reply to: Message 71 by almeyda
08-06-2004 5:41 AM


Evolution and the Bible (creation) are not compatible ...
Actually, as I have said in many other posts, that is only true in the minds of a few minor literalist, fundamental cults.
Genesis itself is not consistent and if one takes them literally, then the second chapter of the Bible creates and insoluable problem. If Chapter 1 of Genesis is literally true, then Chapter 2 of Genesis is literally false. As Bishop Sims said in his Pastoral letter supporting theach Evolution and opposing theaching Creationism,
In Genesis there is not one creation statement but two. They agree as to why and who, but are quite different as to how and when. The statements are set forth in tandem, chapter one of Genesis using one description of method and chapter two another. According to the first, humanity was created, male and female, after the creation of plants and animals. According to the second, man was created first, then the trees, the animals and finally the woman and not from the earth as in the first account, but from the rib of the man. Textual research shows that these two accounts are from two distinct eras, the first later in history, the second earlier.
Evolution and Christianity, or any religion, are not incompatible. In fact, it helps us learn about the HOW that GOD used to create this wonderous universe.
As Bisop Sims summed it up in that Pastoral Letter,
Insistence upon dated and partially contradictory statements of how as conditions for true belief in the why of creation cannot qualify either as faithful religion or as intelligent science. Neither evolution over an immensity of time nor the work done in a sixday week are articles of the creeds. It is a symptom of fearful and unsound religion to contend with one another as if they were. Historic creedal Christianity joyfully insists on God as sovereign and frees the human spirit to trust and seek that sovereignty in a world full of surprises.

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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