LastLordOfTheSevenTowers
August 14th, 2008, 04:05 PM
I would like to start out by saying sorry if this is in the wrong section XD.
I would like ya'lls thoughts on this.
We've all heard the story of Adam and Eve. I was, however, recently speaking with a cousin of mine would used to be a minister in a Baptist church and he had a very interesting view on Genesis. He said that most, if not all, Christians did not take the bible the way it was meant to be taken. The bible is a book of parables (not too hard to believe seeing as how their son of god liked to use them a BUNCH). He believed that Genesis was simply an extremely simplified version of how everything actually happened and was meant to be interpreted as "Yes...it happened..." But it was not to be taken literally.
Adam and Eve. Adam, meaning man, and Eve, meaning woman. God created Adam and Eve. Translation? God created man and woman...So according this, my cousin drew the conclusion that it was not just two people...because if you believe that, then Adam and Eve had only sons...leading to the question of where did the next generation come from when the only girl that was present was there mother....WOOT INCEST (which by the way would be forcing his people to break a commandment that he would later give...hypocritical? Bible's full of that stuff...I digress). If that were true we'd all have a bunch of birth defects and the Special Olympics would be called simply "The Olympics." Rather, he stated, it was a great many people...meaning a population. Here's where I started drawing parallels.
Using this path of thought, which is actually logical, I found a way for Evolution and Intelligent Design to coexist VERY easily. One can conclude that because a day is dependent upon the one rotation of the planet on its axis, this time being relative to the size of the planet, how close it is to its sun, how massive the sun is, etc...the "seven days" that the creation allegedly occurred on could have been according to whatever the Intelligent Designer decided. Meaning that, life could have started in the oceans and gradually, through mutation and adaptation, evolved due to natural selection into the homo sapiens you see today. And that that these "savants" we all hear about with the ability to read two pages of a book at once or something similar, are nothing but another degree of humans along the evolutionary chain. He had some very interesting insights into the rest too, but that was my favorite one.
There. Creationists can stop BITCHING about how Evolution is completely contrary to all their beliefs because I just drew parallels between the two that OBVIOUSLY coexist. And we can stop having to sit there and say "Nice doggy" while we try to find a rock.
Then again...you can lead a mule to water but to make it drink sometimes you have to hold its head under the water...even then sometimes it decides to drown...
I would like ya'lls thoughts on this.
We've all heard the story of Adam and Eve. I was, however, recently speaking with a cousin of mine would used to be a minister in a Baptist church and he had a very interesting view on Genesis. He said that most, if not all, Christians did not take the bible the way it was meant to be taken. The bible is a book of parables (not too hard to believe seeing as how their son of god liked to use them a BUNCH). He believed that Genesis was simply an extremely simplified version of how everything actually happened and was meant to be interpreted as "Yes...it happened..." But it was not to be taken literally.
Adam and Eve. Adam, meaning man, and Eve, meaning woman. God created Adam and Eve. Translation? God created man and woman...So according this, my cousin drew the conclusion that it was not just two people...because if you believe that, then Adam and Eve had only sons...leading to the question of where did the next generation come from when the only girl that was present was there mother....WOOT INCEST (which by the way would be forcing his people to break a commandment that he would later give...hypocritical? Bible's full of that stuff...I digress). If that were true we'd all have a bunch of birth defects and the Special Olympics would be called simply "The Olympics." Rather, he stated, it was a great many people...meaning a population. Here's where I started drawing parallels.
Using this path of thought, which is actually logical, I found a way for Evolution and Intelligent Design to coexist VERY easily. One can conclude that because a day is dependent upon the one rotation of the planet on its axis, this time being relative to the size of the planet, how close it is to its sun, how massive the sun is, etc...the "seven days" that the creation allegedly occurred on could have been according to whatever the Intelligent Designer decided. Meaning that, life could have started in the oceans and gradually, through mutation and adaptation, evolved due to natural selection into the homo sapiens you see today. And that that these "savants" we all hear about with the ability to read two pages of a book at once or something similar, are nothing but another degree of humans along the evolutionary chain. He had some very interesting insights into the rest too, but that was my favorite one.
There. Creationists can stop BITCHING about how Evolution is completely contrary to all their beliefs because I just drew parallels between the two that OBVIOUSLY coexist. And we can stop having to sit there and say "Nice doggy" while we try to find a rock.
Then again...you can lead a mule to water but to make it drink sometimes you have to hold its head under the water...even then sometimes it decides to drown...