--JM: Actually, the message of creationists is to accept 'truth' as defined by a small sect of christianity. You assume that one cannot be a christian and also accept that science got it right. Many christians behold evolution on an old earth being in perfect harmony with an all powerful god and fully consistent with the scriptures because the scriptures are not a scientific treatise. What you are arguing is that you have the singular handle on 'christian truth'. That's a rather pompous and self-serving statement and is inconsistent with the beliefs of many other Christians.
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Joe Meert--
There is no indication anywhere in the Bible, that Genesis should not be taken literally. Quite the opposite - it is qouted as history all over the old and new testaments.
Faith: Bible is the Word of God
Faith: God wrote the Bible, so we could know Truth
Conclusion: Only God's interpretation of the Bible is correct.
Now, if God wants us to know the truth, what is the only possible way for everyone to come to the same conclusions in the Bible? By reading it in a straight-forward manner -- not using your imaginations/preconcieved ideas.
Based on the above, there is a right way and a wrong way to read the Bible. That is why, one can be firm on a certain conclusion of the Bible, and not at the same time be arrogant. If you want to say Evolution fits in the Bible, you must go about it like this...
"You're going in with six days in mind. But abandon that, and read Genesis the way it was written. Don't you get evolution from it?"
David
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