(November 21, 2021 at 6:49 pm)Agnostic1 Wrote: For those Christians that accept evolution and include it into creation, why isn't it mentioned in the Bible? Beyond briefly stating that God created the Heavens and the Earth, the Bible does not go into great detail about the miracle of evolution, which it surely would, if God were real and had started the Universe and all life forms on Earth. The Bible clearly states that God created Man (as opposed to 'people'..just sayin') out of dust. If God is responsible for evolution, why not go into a lot more detail about it? Saying "men" were created out of dust is not only vague, but inaccurate. Educate us! Where is science in the Bible? Science is a huge part of the modern world but suspiciously missing from the Bible. I have a Christian relative that I talk to routinely who does NOT believe in evolution. She believes God made Adam and Eve and incest got the world going. At least for Christians that believe in evolution, it is a step in the right direction.
Since there aren’t too many jews around here.
I’ll step in to fill the void.
I have asked that question to believers.
1. One guy responded with:
Well, why do you think that god should mention evolution, the big bang in the Bible?
2. Me:
Isn’t the goal of the Bible to convince people to join the jewish religion? (judaism v 1.0, christianity, islam, mormonism)
3. Guy responds:
What makes you think that god wants everyone to join his religion?
4. Me:
I thought Jesus loves everybody.
I thought that Jesus came, he did a lot of magic tricks going left and right, to convince the jews to believe that he is the Christ.
That failed and he switched to plan B: convert the non-jews to judaism.
Then he wants his members to do recruiting for him and then he died.
Wouldn’t it be more efficient if there was some science in the Bible? This would be a gem for people of the 17 th, 18 th, 19 th and + centuries.
Imagine what would happen if this religion had the stamp of approval of 500,000+ scientists.
5. Guy responds:
Why would god want to be efficient in recruiting people?
6. Me:
Alright, what is god’s plan? Who does he want to recruit? Why is he being inefficient in his methodology?
7. Guy responds:
We don’t know what exactly god’s plan is. We don’t know when Jesus is coming back, bla bla bla.
8. Me:
I lost interest in the conversation since I understood that it is possible to give bs answers such as that to cover up all your bases. (I understood that a long time ago. I'm just trying to get them to think.).
They are trained to treat god as a mystery box. What seems illogical to me, for them, they assume that god has a logical reason but keeps it a secret.
So, maybe it is possible that the jewish god has chosen to give crappy evidence to humans and see who will join and who won’t.
However, this religion, this crappy evidence, looks like it is something that primitive humans can make up without any god.
So, I can’t tell the difference between a lackluster religion made by humans and a lackluster religion made by a god.
They both look identical to me. There isn’t anything to verify.
