RE: Literal and Not Literal
September 10, 2019 at 9:21 am
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2019 at 9:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
First, that’s a loaded question.
Prove that evolutionary theory predicts every possible outcome for that relationship.
You can’t....because it doesn’t.
Again I have to ask what relationship any of these contentions have to the decision between what is literal, or not.
I keep asking this because objections to biology in discussions of biblical literalism have a narrow range of applicability.
Rather than turn this thread into some doomed rant on how biology is wrong and unscientific....we might be able to more directly address those articles of faith that rely on them, why they rely on them, and how that compels the faithful to reject them.
For example, is a literal reading of some portion(s) of genesis requires for a Christian faith? What, in genesis, must be true in order for Christianity to be true? If a person believes that Christianity is true, might this form the basis of their metrics on what is and is not literal, or meant to be so?
Prove that evolutionary theory predicts every possible outcome for that relationship.
You can’t....because it doesn’t.
Again I have to ask what relationship any of these contentions have to the decision between what is literal, or not.
I keep asking this because objections to biology in discussions of biblical literalism have a narrow range of applicability.
Rather than turn this thread into some doomed rant on how biology is wrong and unscientific....we might be able to more directly address those articles of faith that rely on them, why they rely on them, and how that compels the faithful to reject them.
For example, is a literal reading of some portion(s) of genesis requires for a Christian faith? What, in genesis, must be true in order for Christianity to be true? If a person believes that Christianity is true, might this form the basis of their metrics on what is and is not literal, or meant to be so?
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