Would creationists be more likely to accept the theory of evolution if it was written like a bible passage?

Question

You know, something like…In the beginning there was Homo Erectus. Homo Erectus begat Homo Habils. Homo Habilis begat Homo Neanderthalensis….

Answer 1

Maybe if it was written like a child's picture book....

Answer 2

Sorry this is going to be a litle long but it will answer your question

Only if the Church wanted them to believe it!
Religion and Church have little to do with Faith
if you have faith you believe in the true Cristian God.
Jesus never wrote anything and he never ask any of his followers to just jot down a couple of line for posterity. His message was simple, God is all we are all part of god as is all, live well, and treat others well, go in love and peace bothers and sisters, I am the son of god and you are my siblings.
OK if I live Bible belt country some one would probably shot me for that. Any way that's the only truth we need to know about God from Christs point of view, so where the problem is how and when it all started.
The problem is that Jesus taught that all people are equal parts of god and therefore equal.
The church which is a hierarchy could not exist if they didn't have the bible to use to put the fear of god in them.
So in the first pages of the book you have the creation and if you say that's wrong and they ok, the next thing is that people will start to ask all sorts of question and have doubts and then stop giving money to the church and at the end of it all you have lot of unemployed priests and church leader who can't pay for their kids to go to Yale.
oh, the church would call for an inquision b4 give all it's money and power away.

Answer 3

There are a couple of problems
1 you have to squeeze it all into about the last 6000 years
2 Their real problem is not that all this will offend God but it's show that man is not real so special, they want to think that they are 2 step from being almighty and 1 from angles.
it's all very sad really and most of them think that white people are more superior.

Here something from a book call Of Pawns & Players
they should read it and think about the fact that it's a big world


Humanity is and has been for a very long time, some would say always, divided on many issues these have caused great pain and suffering to many, indeed most of our extended family. One such, and by no means small, issue is that of our origin there are two main groups. One group tends to follow the basic idea that the universe came about 15 billion years ago and the earth formed about 10.5 billion years later, then life started on a lifeless planet a little less than 4 billion years ago in the form of single celled jelly sacks living in the oceans from which all life on earth evolved. This group is again divided into three sub groups: 1: those of Atheistic evolution*1: 2: those of Deistic evolution*2: and 3: those of Theistic evolution*3. The other group is a mix of various religious and traditional beliefs of creation, in today’s world this diversity is much less varied than in the past due to the spread of stronger and more expansionist cultures converting indigenous populations to their way of thinking. The main surviving factions include the three religions of the book, Judaism, Christianity (1st largest religion), and Islam (2nd largest religion), in all their various forms, factions, and sects they share the belief that God created the world and all life in it’s present day form, their fundamental believers date this as happening much more recently than the first group and again these can be divided into another 2 sub groups: 1: those of Old-Earth Creationism*4 of which there are two forms: and 2: those of Young-Earth Creationism. Then there is Hinduism (3rd largest religion), the Hindus believe that Vishnu awoke from his sleep within the endless coils of a giant cobra floating on the waters of nothingness and a magnificent lotus flower grew from Vishnu's navel in which was Brahma his servant who he then ordered to create the world. They give this beginning a date of 77.76 trillion years BPD, though this maybe due to the fact that they seem to believe in a cyclic universe which has times when the universe takes form and times when it dissolves back into nothing. This is not so different from a counter theory to the big bang, or maybe I should say continues it, in which the universe behaves like a never ending applause. [1] The Aborigines say that when the earth was new-born, it was plain without features or life. Waking time and sleeping time were the same. There were only hollows on the surface of the Earth which, one day, became waterholes, and around these waterholes were the ingredients of life sleeping waiting to awake and when life awoke time started. In Yazdânism the belief is that god created the world as a pearl, and then later reconstructed it in its current form and size. There are other people with other beliefs on this planet as well we should not forget Zoroastrianism (possibly the oldest surviving religion), Confucianism (a very large proportion of the world population), Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, the followers of Shinto, the Bahá'í Faith, Scientology, Vodoun, Asatru, Celtic Druidism, Goddess worship, Wicca, Dao Cao Dai, Damanhur, Ahl al-TawhÄ«d, Eckankar, Elián Gonzalez, Native American Spirituality, Gnosticism, the Roma gypsies, Krishna, Ifa, Santeria, Unitarianism Universalism, Secular Humanism, Agnosticism, The Creativity Movement, Religious Satanism, and Atheism and certainly others that I have missed, so as we can see there is multitude of concepts concerning how it all got started which makes for a little difference of opinion, of course the only true one is that which you hold, and all the others must be wrong! It is necessary to point out though that not all members of these religious groups are in conflict with science or for that fact with each other, as they do not see the beliefs of others as a threat to there own personal faith. It could be said that, If one has true faith then one has nothing to fear from the devil, this maybe a good way of looking at things, may it not!

Answer 4

That would actually do it.

The theory is automatically unacceptable as another swipe at God, because so many attempts have been made in Biblical history to prove Him incapable. In every case, the situation becomes a David & Golaith showdown, where the very few faithful, and the multitudes who reject God face off.

This theme is repeated over and over in the Bible. So every time an Evolutionist tries to bolster their credibility by saying, "We everyone believes what we do", we just laugh.

Solomon said, "There is nothing new under the Sun". The Theory of Evolution is a grain of sand on a seashore of lies that modern man has built his life upon. Evolution itself has shifted so many times, it is hard to keep track. Even evolutionists cannot keep up.

I have chosen to build my house upon the Rock.

Answer 5

Let's try it to see if it works!

We could change the books, like Malachi becoming Molecule, and so on.

Cite the archaeological evidence and the archaelogists. "Biblical Archaeology Review" is a religious magazine, not a peer reviewed scientific journal, so that does not count.

Prominent archaeologist Israel Finkelstein of Tel Aviv disagrees with you.

Answer 6

Only if you can bribe a printing press operator to slip it into a copy of the KJV.

Answer 7

i agree with ana. it'd have to be written like a child picture book. and the book would have to say that it is infallible and they they'd have to be indoctrinated.

Answer 8

It already is. The sequence of events in Genesis are same as for evolution. Light, Earth, water, animals, man. Remember, it also says a day to God is like unto a thousand years. Time is irrelevant to God.

Answer 9

They adhere to the bible so much as the true spoken word, I would say yes. For most of them, it's blinding unquestioning faith that makes one the most "holy."

Answer 10

No,
But thank you for your concern about creationists any way.

Answer 11

No. We do not want to lost our faith to God.
Rom 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written. The just shall live by faith.
Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Rom 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them.
Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Rom 1:23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Rom 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.