RE: Why the religious will never admit you won the argument (and why they don't care)
June 24, 2016 at 8:58 am
(June 24, 2016 at 8:30 am)robvalue Wrote:(June 24, 2016 at 7:28 am)robvalue Wrote: I would be very interested to hear what our resident Christians' actual models are.
What happened, and how is evolution involved, if at all?
Anyone prepared to share?
Seriously.
Some people are creationists, and literally think people were created pretty much as they are now.
Some accept evolution, but maintain some sort of belief that God was involved somewhere.
Yet some seem to suggest they are neither creationists, nor accept evolution, but they don't say what they do believe. Would this mean they are actually undecided as to what happened? Don't feel like sharing? Why the secrecy?
I'm not accusing anyone in particular here. This is a trend I've noticed where people are aware creationism is too embarrassing to present, yet the theory of evolution too damning to the narrative. So what exactly is going on? Do such people actually have a model in mind? Did we evolve from something or not? If so, what, and how? If not, how did we get here?
A good point. I think the most intellectually honest thing to do is let the science figure out what it can and go from there. I don't think there is anything in Genesis 1 that leads me (and others) to believe it was meant to be taken literal. I do believe God had a hand in creating life. How? I don't know. I was not there and no one that was has shared.
Not taking Genesis 1 literally is not new. Long before evolution was a theory people debated this topic.
