Just like the Big Bang theory, many people think that either evolution will disprove Christianity or God will prevail and evolutionists will go to hell. However, it is my understanding that the book of Genesis (the part of creation) is a poem that is filled with symbols and has no correct interpretation to date. How can you say Evolution disproves or goes against Christianity just because the bible says we were made from clay? Isn't it just a poem?
2007-01-27 12:30:10 · 13 answers · asked by haha10488 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think you misunderstand me. Being a Christian, I was merely pointing out that evolution and the big bang could have well been the works of God, but since no one really knew how it worked back then, they decided to write a poem about what he did. It is my belief that its purpose was not to tell us how he created everything, but instead merely celebrate it. Please share your thoughts on this.
2007-01-27 12:37:44 · update #1
There is absolutely no conflict between evolution and God, only between evolution and a literal interpretation of the bible, a belief in talking serpents and the like.
For my part, I don't see any reason why evolution couldn't be God's incredibly amazing method of creating the enormous diversity of life that exists on this Earth.
It's only the fundamentalist literalist evangelical Christians who have any problem with evolution, the ones that believe in talking serpent science.
2007-01-27 12:36:22 · answer #1 · answered by tychobrahe 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Google "Institute for Creation Research". They are a very big, highly respected organization made up of scientists, whose objective is to prove the accuracy of the Bible. At their website, in their "search" window, type in "evolution", then click on the article having to do with the case against evolution. You will find out what they say about this. You might find it interesting. And no - Genesis is not a poem. It is the first recorded history of mankind and the universe.
2007-01-27 12:37:01 · answer #2 · answered by Chimichanga to go please!! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moses was the first evolution advocate.
Proof: The six day deal was a 6 stage deal. It is the scientific and evolutionist answer to: "How to take an uninhabitable planet and seed it to create life".
Poem? Good point. Now I understand why it says (indicates) God created the moon and Sun. Well, it didn't say Sun and Moon, but the greater light and the lesser light. --- which are rather poetic for "God had a way to clean and clear our atmosphere. Proof: In those days and in an ancient Hebrew dictionary "Heavens" means where birds fly.
It says "dust" - which in a Hebrew dictionary meant "small particles", as in atoms. Hey, how else was God going to explain it to Moses?
2007-01-27 12:43:44 · answer #3 · answered by MrsOcultyThomas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try telling Creationists and Christian fundamentalists that Genesis is "just a poem". (and yes, that is what it is).
-The main problem is thus:
If you can prove part of the bible to be false (for example creation, although there are many other parts that can be proven false), then how can it be the word of God? That would make either God a liar, or the bible NOT the word of God. Since the ENTIRE basis for the Christian faith is that the bible is the word of God, then you have just contradicted their entire belief structure....hence all the uproar.
2007-01-27 12:33:33 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not all Christians are... you know, nuts. There are four main approaches to the relationship between the bible and science.
What you described is opposition-- one must be right, and that must make the other wrong. That's where the fundamentalists would fall.
There's also separation, the belief that one has nothing to do with the other. Religion tries to explain "why" while science tries to explain "how." That's the less... you know, psycho way of looking at it.
Then there's the dialogue approach. which is to say both camps ought to learn from the other. And the integration approach, which is to say both are connected and support each other.
2007-01-27 12:41:48 · answer #5 · answered by nope 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a few people who insist on being Christian but reality is trying to force it's way through, so yes. There are some who say everything in the Old Testament is just a parable to teach right and wrong; explaining, I guess, why most stories are so inappropriate for our time.
There's also the philosophy that 'Hell' is a state of being that occurs to most at some point in their life.-More a p[hilosophy than a location.
2007-01-27 12:38:19 · answer #6 · answered by strpenta 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If people only thought it was a fable or poem then there would be no problem.
Ask the christians in this forum if they think the biblical creation story is a fable or allegory or ACTUAL, LITERAL TRUTH.
That kind of ignorance is scary, but it is real.
Oh and if we were made from clay, we'd be Silicon based life forms, not Carbon based.
2007-01-27 12:33:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is just a poem. We know this because evolution is fact.
People choose to ignore facts when it suits them. It's sad, really, because a person can accept the mythical status of the Bible and still be Christians. They just refuse to.
2007-01-27 12:36:29 · answer #8 · answered by Huddy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well if we were suppose to have climbed out of a primordial ooze pit , it had to be water and dirt,man was made from the dust of the earth, so maybe it's all Gods plan in the first place, and everyone been arguing over nothing, he had a hand in all of it, evolution creationism..it was his idea...
2007-01-27 12:38:39 · answer #9 · answered by purpleaura1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "creation" part is two poems (one in each of the first two chapters) that cannot even be reconciled with themselves, much less science.
2007-01-27 12:35:51 · answer #10 · answered by neil s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋