RE: Jesus did not rise from the dead -- My debate opening statement.
January 14, 2017 at 9:49 am
(January 14, 2017 at 8:28 am)Crossless1 Wrote:(January 13, 2017 at 9:55 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Drich, your "scholarship" (if it can be called that) is beyond poor. Just curious, do you believe that the Earth and/or Cosmos are less than 10,000 years old? If so, I have nothing further to say to you; your beliefs are equivalent to someone who believes that the South won the Civil War.
Oh my, you haven't had the benefit of Drich's views on Genesis, have you?
Short version: Earth/cosmos older than 10,000 years . . . evolution not necessarily disputed . . . "monkey-man" pre-Garden-of-Eden, followed by literal Adam and Eve (true, spirit-endowed humans) . . . etc.
It's a magnificent mess and a fine example of what happens when people really take the Bible to be true and then needlessly contort themselves to make it "fit" with what science has found. On this issue, Drich seems to be a church of one. In any case, I've never come across anyone with a similar take on the question.
Our species, Homo sapiens sapiens, did not descend from 2 individuals:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve