Quote from: Essessen on November 30, 2015, 10:47:26 PMQuote from: Cyrus on November 30, 2015, 08:54:54 PMQuote from: Ozymandias on November 30, 2015, 08:35:59 PMQuote from: Cyrus on November 30, 2015, 08:16:03 PMI don't claim to understand the nature of god at all, but I don't feel that evolution or the big bang conflict with the idea of a creator god.So how do you reconcile the creation story with evolution? They're incompatible.I don't see how, unless you're fixed on a strict literalist interpretation of the KJV. The Hebrew word used in Genesis can mean either "day" or "age". Even then, biblical creationism being wrong does not necessarily mean that the notion of a creator god is wrong. Evolution is driven by Natural Selection, which is driven by the natural force of competition. Competition is a kind of invisible hand that one could attribute to a supreme being.Another explanation I've heard from Christians is that the first part of Genesis is actually a poem. It has an order in how it goes, and it ends with God creating mankind, his greatest creation. Personally my favorite take on it.It's also totally out of order
Quote from: Cyrus on November 30, 2015, 08:54:54 PMQuote from: Ozymandias on November 30, 2015, 08:35:59 PMQuote from: Cyrus on November 30, 2015, 08:16:03 PMI don't claim to understand the nature of god at all, but I don't feel that evolution or the big bang conflict with the idea of a creator god.So how do you reconcile the creation story with evolution? They're incompatible.I don't see how, unless you're fixed on a strict literalist interpretation of the KJV. The Hebrew word used in Genesis can mean either "day" or "age". Even then, biblical creationism being wrong does not necessarily mean that the notion of a creator god is wrong. Evolution is driven by Natural Selection, which is driven by the natural force of competition. Competition is a kind of invisible hand that one could attribute to a supreme being.Another explanation I've heard from Christians is that the first part of Genesis is actually a poem. It has an order in how it goes, and it ends with God creating mankind, his greatest creation. Personally my favorite take on it.
Quote from: Ozymandias on November 30, 2015, 08:35:59 PMQuote from: Cyrus on November 30, 2015, 08:16:03 PMI don't claim to understand the nature of god at all, but I don't feel that evolution or the big bang conflict with the idea of a creator god.So how do you reconcile the creation story with evolution? They're incompatible.I don't see how, unless you're fixed on a strict literalist interpretation of the KJV. The Hebrew word used in Genesis can mean either "day" or "age". Even then, biblical creationism being wrong does not necessarily mean that the notion of a creator god is wrong. Evolution is driven by Natural Selection, which is driven by the natural force of competition. Competition is a kind of invisible hand that one could attribute to a supreme being.
Quote from: Cyrus on November 30, 2015, 08:16:03 PMI don't claim to understand the nature of god at all, but I don't feel that evolution or the big bang conflict with the idea of a creator god.So how do you reconcile the creation story with evolution? They're incompatible.
I don't claim to understand the nature of god at all, but I don't feel that evolution or the big bang conflict with the idea of a creator god.
Quote from: Winy on November 30, 2015, 10:59:41 PMQuote from: Essessen on November 30, 2015, 10:47:26 PMQuote from: Cyrus on November 30, 2015, 08:54:54 PMQuote from: Ozymandias on November 30, 2015, 08:35:59 PMQuote from: Cyrus on November 30, 2015, 08:16:03 PMI don't claim to understand the nature of god at all, but I don't feel that evolution or the big bang conflict with the idea of a creator god.So how do you reconcile the creation story with evolution? They're incompatible.I don't see how, unless you're fixed on a strict literalist interpretation of the KJV. The Hebrew word used in Genesis can mean either "day" or "age". Even then, biblical creationism being wrong does not necessarily mean that the notion of a creator god is wrong. Evolution is driven by Natural Selection, which is driven by the natural force of competition. Competition is a kind of invisible hand that one could attribute to a supreme being.Another explanation I've heard from Christians is that the first part of Genesis is actually a poem. It has an order in how it goes, and it ends with God creating mankind, his greatest creation. Personally my favorite take on it.It's also totally out of orderI'm not talking chronological, and if this is about the plants can't live in nighttime thing, just stop.
Quote from: Essessen on November 30, 2015, 11:02:41 PMQuote from: Winy on November 30, 2015, 10:59:41 PMQuote from: Essessen on November 30, 2015, 10:47:26 PMQuote from: Cyrus on November 30, 2015, 08:54:54 PMQuote from: Ozymandias on November 30, 2015, 08:35:59 PMQuote from: Cyrus on November 30, 2015, 08:16:03 PMI don't claim to understand the nature of god at all, but I don't feel that evolution or the big bang conflict with the idea of a creator god.So how do you reconcile the creation story with evolution? They're incompatible.I don't see how, unless you're fixed on a strict literalist interpretation of the KJV. The Hebrew word used in Genesis can mean either "day" or "age". Even then, biblical creationism being wrong does not necessarily mean that the notion of a creator god is wrong. Evolution is driven by Natural Selection, which is driven by the natural force of competition. Competition is a kind of invisible hand that one could attribute to a supreme being.Another explanation I've heard from Christians is that the first part of Genesis is actually a poem. It has an order in how it goes, and it ends with God creating mankind, his greatest creation. Personally my favorite take on it.It's also totally out of orderI'm not talking chronological, and if this is about the plants can't live in nighttime thing, just stop.I wasn't.
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