(September 16, 2015 at 5:05 pm)Cato Wrote: The official position of the Catholic church is to accept evolution, but with the caveat that one must accept as truth the absurd idea of Adam and Eve because if they don't the entire house of cards collapses immediately. No Adam and Eve, no fall, no original sin, no need for Jesus, no church. It's all rather silly.
The biblical creation story is a jumbled mess of competing ideas. The primary idea is that it's about the progenitors of the Israelites/Hebrews/Jews. After all, the Bible is not about all of humanity but only about one small slice of it. That's why thinking that the Adam & Eve story is about all of humanity is completely wrong. Assyria, Persia, Arabia, and Ethiopia were just down the road from the Garden of Eden where Adam & Eve were running around naked. And they were all there after Noah's flood when Nimrod became the bigwig in Babylonia and built cities in Assyria. And the king of Tyre lived in the Garden of Eden. So only a crazy person will take the story literally. That means that the creation story is actually a complex metaphor like so many other Bible stories are. If a person was so inclined he could write his own national history using the same format that the Bible writers used. A person who thoroughly knows his national history would understand such a story but distant outsiders would probably be completely clueless and think that the stories mean something else. The fools would probably start a religion based on it.
There is no God creature in this solar system.
