If they did, they would see that evolution is clearly false, as it says on page one that God created the world and everything in it in six literal days.
2007-10-31 03:45:50 · 46 answers · asked by unfit_commander 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because it is much easier to believe humans jumped directly from dirt instead of gradually from a common ancestor with chimps.
2007-10-31 03:48:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 0⤋
The bible has a weird beginning full of paradoxes.
In Genesis 1:2, we see “the Spirit of God hovering over the waters”, while the waters are only separated in Genesis 1:6-7. Daylight is created on Day 1, but the sun is created three days later, on Day 4.
And God creates mankind two times. In Genesis 1, He creates Adam and Eve at the same time out of nothing, while in Genesis 2 He creates Adam from soil and, after some time, Eve out of Adam’s rib.
The reason for this is that the biblical creation story is really a mixture of several other, much older creation stories. It is full of elements from (especially) Egyptian, Babylonian and Sumerian mythology.
Most scholars agree that Genesis was only written three or four centuries BC. That makes it one of the most recent ‘ancient’ religious books from the Middle East. Creation stories like ‘Enuma Elish’ or ‘The Instruction for Merikare’ are hundreds, even thousands of years older!
The creation story of Genesis was constructed much as you would make a car: out of off-the-shelf components that were already there.
Don’t worry – there are no Da Vinci Code-style conspiracies involved. Whoever wrote Genesis was simply a product of his (or her) time. The author(s) used symbols, ideas and notions that were already widespread – like the belief that the sky is really a steel ‘expanse’ with the sun, the moon and the stars dangling down from it.
To give you a taste of just how strikingly close the parallels are, we’ll give you two quick examples – about the creation of Adam from clay, and Eve from Adam’s rib:
Genesis (300-400 BC): “the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being” (2:7)
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Sumeria, 2100-2000 BC): The gods create Gilgamesh from a lump of clay.
The Atrahasis Myth (Sumeria, 1700 BC): The Gods are bored with dirty work. So they take some clay, mix it with blood, and create the first humans
The Instruction for Merikare (Egypt, 2100 BC): The first human is breathed to life through his nose:“He [the sun god Ra] gave the breath of life to their noses, for they are likenesses of Him which issued from His flesh”
Genesis: “[The LORD] took one of [Adam’s] ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man” (2:21-22)
Sumerian mythology: The goddess Ninhursag takes out one of the ribs of Enki, another god. Then she makes a woman out of the rib, ‘Ninti’ – literally: ‘lady of the rib’.
Despite all this, many devout Christians claim that we should take Genesis 1 literally.
Well: that makes no sense - not unless you’re willing to accept that the sky above is actually a hammered ‘expanse’ you can touch, as is written in Genesis 1:6-8.
What's more, the bible has got the sequence of events wrong. Birds and fish weren’t ‘created’ simultaneously, but many hundreds of millions of years apart.
And you won’t find any serious astronomer around who believes the earth was here earlier than the stars and the sun were. Nor will you find any biologists who will take for granted that plants arrived before the sun did.
2007-10-31 03:53:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
No. The fact of evolution means that believing in God is incorrect.
Taking the fact of evolution into account, if there were a creator, it would have to be even more "evolved" than us (a being who created the entire universe would have to be an extremely advanced, complex being).
But then who created this entity and how would it have evolved to such complexity? This is taking into account that _evolution is necessary for the creation of a complex being_.
To add, evolution isn't classified as a belief (i.e., it isn't based on faith but observance).
2007-11-01 08:06:27 · answer #3 · answered by Gen•X•er (I love zombies!) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As it also says on page one of the Bible God created land and put a dome over it, which i percieve to mean the land was a flat surface which is also Clearly false!!! I think God would have known that the world is round and stated so
2007-10-31 03:50:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think you will find that most evolutionists have read the bible.
Evolution has been proved.
The bible is a poor metaphor written by uneducated, bronze age sheep herders and has no relevance to real life today.
Creationism is a joke of outstanding proportions.
2007-10-31 03:59:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why don't creationists just read a science journal? =)
Read this very closely.
The...Bible...is...fiction.
There. Now, by your logic, since you've read it, it must be true, right? Oh wait, I almost forgot this part! What is written above is the word of God. There. Now you can't say it's not true.
Don't get me wrong, I've read the Bible. The whole thing. It's a good book of fables and moral tales, but produced by man - as evidenced by it's many contradictions.
2007-10-31 03:54:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Trouble is, evolutionists read science and the bible and make tha locical conclusions.
The devout read neither, but sit on a bench an hour a week to have it dictated to them.
2007-10-31 03:56:00 · answer #7 · answered by Captain Cod 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that after I read the Holy Bible I read all of these books too and now I'm really confused as to which one is real
http://www.magictails.com/creationlinks.html
2007-10-31 03:49:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think this is written just below the legal disclaimer telling people that all the written works contained is wholly fictional and is not representative of any persons living or dead.
Also the copyright notice...
God = Gobshites
2007-10-31 04:12:34 · answer #9 · answered by Jaws P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have.
You think that we were created from dust? Everything just popped up in six days and voila - all is here and perfect. How you explain mutation? If your ideas are true then we should all be identical, we are not!
The bible also gives two different creation stories. Which one are you referring to?
2007-10-31 03:56:17 · answer #10 · answered by Tricia R 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
And what makes you think we haven't read the bible?
I have many times and I just don't believe it.
Did you know, sunshine, that lots of Christians are nowadays rethinking their position on Evolution? Many have come to think evolution is plausible.
2007-10-31 03:52:52 · answer #11 · answered by Willow 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋