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You sound like an idiot.For your sake, I hope you're not being honest.But either way, you are not worth my time.Good day, sir.

Wow, that sounds like it is speaking to you. You won't put op with the sound doctrine of evolution and instead, to suit your own desires, you turn towards the myth of creationism. Tsk tsk.

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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
- St. Thomas Aquinas

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What if spontaneous generation occurred twice, and one died and everything else came from the other one? There'd still be a universal common ancestor.What if it happened 100 times, and 99 died? Same deal.A single occurrence isn't required.

Don't cop out. Show me the quote.Regardless though, my point stands: a single occurrence of spontaneous generation is not required for universal common ancestry.Care to address that point?

So then you do agree that a single occurrence of spontaneous generation is not required?

It also doesn't talk about gravity, or germs...It misses quite a bit, doesn't it? It states that in what it quite clearly a myth. You don't think that snakes can talk, do you?

Right, so therefore it is not an assumption. Agreed?

Oooh, a likelihood... can you show me your math? How did you determine the odds?Or did you just make that up?The way Genesis is written (at least in the NIV), when the Lord speaks to Adam & Eve it has quotation marks around exactly like when the snake is speaking to Eve. They're both characters in the myth that speak to Adam & Eve in the same way as any other conversation would go. There's no reason to think that it was telepathic and not verbal.But this thread is about evolution and not Genesis.

I dunno, quote the relevant passages and let's look at them.

It doesn't say anything about Satan speaking to Judas, but this is way too off topic.

That comes right out of their shitty "How to Use the Bible" playbook

Worst. Theology. Ever.

What a loaded question!I wouldn't call it allegorical... allegory is an intentional literary device. I'd bet that ancient Hebrews thought they were talking about actual events when passing on their oral history.Even when it finally got written down, the authors may have thought they were actual historical events. That would make it not allegory.But to answer your question: There is no "point" in the Bible where the myths become factual descriptions of actual events.But we do know for a fact that the entire planet has not been covered in water since humans have existed, so it'd definitely have to be after The Flood. Honestly, I doubt the exodus even happened for real - but that doesn't mean that everything before it is completely untrue.There is no dichotomy of either 100% true or 100% false that we have to apply to the Bible.

Prove it.