Brilliantly put. I myself am not a fundamentalist, though I am a firm believer in God, the Bible, and ID.
I agree that not everything is literal, or should be taken literally.
Thank you for sorting out my thoughts. Would you mind if I asked where your beliefs lie on the issue?
As far as your last comment, I think it's fair to say that it's true simply because we naturally involve emotion with faith. Both fundamentalists and atheists have faith of some sort, and when bases their existance on faith, there's bound to be emotion tied in there.
-Evan
"Clearly, if there is a God that's exactly how he/she/it went about it."
Actually, it's not quite that easy. Those who believe in God (in the Christian way) have to believe in the Bible. If the Bible is false, then there really is no reason to believe in God, as the Bible is pretty much our only insight into the impact that Christ had while he was on earth.
*que Passion flashbacks*
My point is, in the bible, it's fairly clear that evolution did not in fact occur, as it really didn't have time to.
Then, you say, what about the Gap Theory, which says that before the creation of Man on the sixth day, each day was not defined by 24 hours - merely however long it took God to do a day's particular task (light one day, plants the next, and so on).
This is a bit of a stretch. Perhaps someone can jump in here, but I believe there's more biblical support that says that as soon as God created the heavens and the earth (the universe), time as we know it started. Why reference it as days if the definition of days isn't consistant?
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Brilliantly put. I myself am not a fundamentalist, though I am a firm believer in God, the Bible, and ID. I agree that not everything is literal, or should be taken literally. Thank you for sorting out my thoughts. Would you mind if I asked where your beliefs lie on the issue? As far as your last comment, I think it's fair to say that it's true simply because we naturally involve emotion with faith. Both fundamentalists and atheists have faith of some sort, and when bases their existance on faith, there's bound to be emotion tied in there. -Evan
"Clearly, if there is a God that's exactly how he/she/it went about it."
Actually, it's not quite that easy. Those who believe in God (in the Christian way) have to believe in the Bible. If the Bible is false, then there really is no reason to believe in God, as the Bible is pretty much our only insight into the impact that Christ had while he was on earth.
*que Passion flashbacks*
My point is, in the bible, it's fairly clear that evolution did not in fact occur, as it really didn't have time to.
Then, you say, what about the Gap Theory, which says that before the creation of Man on the sixth day, each day was not defined by 24 hours - merely however long it took God to do a day's particular task (light one day, plants the next, and so on).
This is a bit of a stretch. Perhaps someone can jump in here, but I believe there's more biblical support that says that as soon as God created the heavens and the earth (the universe), time as we know it started. Why reference it as days if the definition of days isn't consistant?
My $0.03