What gets me is that the Bible and the ToE aren't even at odds on this. The species of your offspring is always the same species as you, barring hybridization or the like. It would upend the theory for animals to start generating new species in one generation. For all practical purposes, like begets like from a limited human perspective.
The Bible doesn't say that the remote descendants of a species can't be different, just that they're not going to pop out new species willy-nilly. There's not a conflict, even if you take it literally. It doesn't say 'like begets like and the remote descendants of a species will never be a different species (or genus or family or class). It's picking a fight where there doesn't have to be one.
If you want to believe the Bible is the word of God, but not a science book, making the first human out of dust is not a bad metaphor for evolving from single-celled organisms. We're often told that God runs on a different clock, but God taking hundreds of millions of years to get from 'dust' to humans seems like too much to believe God has the patience and time for, for literalists.
The Bible doesn't say that the remote descendants of a species can't be different, just that they're not going to pop out new species willy-nilly. There's not a conflict, even if you take it literally. It doesn't say 'like begets like and the remote descendants of a species will never be a different species (or genus or family or class). It's picking a fight where there doesn't have to be one.
If you want to believe the Bible is the word of God, but not a science book, making the first human out of dust is not a bad metaphor for evolving from single-celled organisms. We're often told that God runs on a different clock, but God taking hundreds of millions of years to get from 'dust' to humans seems like too much to believe God has the patience and time for, for literalists.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
