Deesse23 Wrote:So why does he choose to die on this hill? He just could accept evolution, be still in accordance with RCC, and then focus on all the other hills he wants to die on. One problem less, once cause less for cognitive dissonance.
In his defense, it is more honest not to accept evolution when you are a Christian because evolution is not compatible with Christianity. It debunks it.
Nishant Xavier Wrote:The day you believe you are going to give birth to actual apes in the future, I will believe that you are an Ape. Not before that.
Evolution does not claim that one species can give birth to another. Just like a Latin-speaking woman can not give birth to a Spanish-speaking child although Spanish evolved from Latin language.
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"
