(December 6, 2019 at 11:40 am)Drich Wrote: This is the same subject we have discussed in the past usually under the name of how to assimilate all of evolution without changing the bible or the theory of evolution. Just in a video out line. I plan on using this out line to make a animated short.
But why evolution and Bible creation story? Why not evolution and Native American origin story? Many Native American peoples share a belief that they emerged from the earth. For the Hopi and other Pueblo peoples, after they emerge they meet the caretaker of the earth who instructs them to honor Mother Earth by taking care of her. They are instructed to walk to the world’s farthest corners, to learn the earth with their feet and to find their Center Place.
Or why not evolution and Hindus creation story? Or why not evolution and ancient Greek creation story? Or evolution and Viking creation story: Ymir, the Frost giant, was created in the area were two worlds merged. Niflheim, the land of endless winter, and Muspelheim the land of summer.
Also the cow, Audhumla arose and Ymir fed from her milk. Ymir slept, and from his sweat blocks of ice fell. The first man and women inside these blocks.
The first cow began to lick the blocks till the man and woman were melted out. Buri, and Bor. Bor married Bestla, and they became the parents of the first three of the gods.
Odin, Vili, and Ve. Odin, Vili, and Ve cut off Ymirs head and flooded the giants with his blood, and drowning them in his blood.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
