RE: Theists: What is your stance on evolution?
March 6, 2022 at 4:15 am
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2022 at 4:18 am by Fake Messiah.)
(March 6, 2022 at 2:11 am)COSM500 Wrote: There's an interesting book on each of these theories called Four Views on Creation, Evolution and Intelligent Design. Each theorist offers his or her perspective, followed by responses...
I have read a few books on evolution and watched a few lectures on it, and also looked into a few creationist books and have never found any credibility to creationism. So I don't see how this one particular book can change everything.
What these kinds of books you mention usually do is give a caricature version of evolution, which seems to be the case because by your claiming that evolution is false because "if people come from apes why are there still apes?" seems like you have a distortion when it comes to understanding evolution.
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"
