I understand if you want to interpret the Bible literally, but I don't see how evolution is open to ridicule when at the same time you believe life came from dirt and that women came from a rib bone.
2006-12-15 12:15:58 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dirt that had been magicked! Very important difference!
2006-12-15 12:17:39 · answer #1 · answered by Black Parade Billie 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Since they do not live in the reality-based world they can believe anything is real. For them, belief and knowledge are they same thing and there is no epistemology of human knowledge (or a need for one).
The part I do not understand is: what does it mean to ‘interpret’ the bible ‘literally’? If the bible is literally true, what is there to interpret? If I perform a science experiment or follow a cooking recipe, I do not interpret anything, I just follow the rules and directions. If I ‘interpret’ the instructions then I am, by definition, doing the wrong thing and whatever I end up with it something other than what it was intended to be.
If you need to interpret the bible in order to understand it, then it is a novel and not a set of rules or instructions.
2006-12-15 20:43:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ignorance, on their part! They also want to believe that the Earth and everything existing was also created in 6 days! The fact of the matter is that their interpretation is literal, but the fossil record is also! God created the whole thing and the Bible is used as a written record of human existence since the beginning of recorded time! No one is right or wrong. Good query!
2006-12-15 20:24:40 · answer #3 · answered by HotInTX 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because God made the first humans by creating them from the earth. All the elements in our bodies can be found on earth so it makes sense that we are made from the earth.
Evolution is based on man evolving from lower creatures. If evolution is the survival of the fittest wouldn't it mean that the lower species we evolved from would have ceased to exist. Then why are moneys and apes still making more monkeys and apes and not humans? Why are the fish not walking out of the sea? Why are there even fish if they were the weaker in the link of evolution? It makes no sense.
2006-12-15 20:21:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's only an issue if you consider the Bible a literal account - which, I'm sad to say, it isn't...
My personal favourite is that we are all made of star stuff. Strictly speaking, this is at least true - all the chemicals that make us and the world around us came from stars...
2006-12-15 20:28:22 · answer #5 · answered by keltarr 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Great Question!!! I never understood why Christians can't belive both. Cannot evolution be apart of inteligent design? God created the Earth and the earth is constantly changing. The creatures of earth could not have survived if they did not change as well.
2006-12-15 20:20:51 · answer #6 · answered by CrystalEyes 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You understand if people want to interpret the Bible literally? How did you manage that?
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2006-12-15 20:18:17 · answer #7 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I myself believe in eveloution, I myself am a christian. I do not interpret the bible literally, but hey, anything can happen. 7 days, 700,000,000 years. Who knows?
2006-12-15 20:18:59 · answer #8 · answered by Ziggy Stardust 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not life but flesh came from dirt.
God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
Why do people open their mouth and remove all doubt.
Because evolution is laughable.
Because evolution is a fallacy and to accept it means you lack common sense.
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The word for rib in the Hebrew also means curve. What is DNA, a double spiral helix.
HAAHAHAHAAHA !!!
Oh ye of little knowledge and faith, you crack me up.
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2006-12-15 20:18:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
2006-12-15 21:03:36 · answer #10 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋