Author: Bluejay
Forum: Social and Religious Issues
Thread: Key points of Evolution
Message #:
216
A discussion of theistic evolutionism.
These intriguing paragraphs jumped out at me:
Bluejay writes:
Earlier in this thread, you and Granny (and some others) had a discussion about a children's textbook, which everybody seemed to conclude was lacking in scientific rigor, but which taught important, basic principles to children. Have you ever considered the possibility that the Bible is the equivalent of a children's textbook?
Could you imagine Adam, who could not possibly have known much about anything, trying to understand while God explains to him about His methods and reasons for creating nasty predators, for getting hard pits inside cherries, for making things so tiny that Adam can't see them, and things that lurk in the deep, dark ocean, where Adam will never be able to go? Is it any wonder God didn't bother to tell us when in Creation week He made bacteria? Is it any wonder He didn't bother explaining to the writer of Leviticus that bats and locusts are not birds?
Any discussion of the matter should go to the cited topic. Or perhaps the material deserves a new topic of its own.
Moose
ps: Re:
April 2008 POTM message 7 - Hiss is indeed yawning in my avatar picture.
Professor, geology, Whatsamatta U
Evolution - Changes in the environment, caused by the interactions of the components of the environment.
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