RE: the real reason creationists hate evolution?
October 4, 2015 at 4:10 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2015 at 10:49 am by Jenny A.)
I think the bulk of Christians who hate evolution hate it because it takes away their specialness, and not because of the fall of man. They want to be made in god's image and therefore a special part of his plan. If they evolved than they're just like all the other animals and not so special.
I don't think many of them see the fall as so necessary. Whether it came of eating an apple, sleeping with women, or what, they find humans inherently sinful (and if that means not perfect, we are). That's all it takes. Sinfulness equals death and hell fire. No apple required.
For fundamentalists the problem is that they are sure the Bible is inerrant, and that makes evolution, the big bang, and all sorts of other facts extremely uncomfortable.
I don't think many of them see the fall as so necessary. Whether it came of eating an apple, sleeping with women, or what, they find humans inherently sinful (and if that means not perfect, we are). That's all it takes. Sinfulness equals death and hell fire. No apple required.
For fundamentalists the problem is that they are sure the Bible is inerrant, and that makes evolution, the big bang, and all sorts of other facts extremely uncomfortable.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
