RE: Evolution
March 20, 2012 at 4:43 pm
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2012 at 4:51 pm by Drich.)
(March 20, 2012 at 3:13 am)FallentoReason Wrote:(March 20, 2012 at 12:44 am)Drich Wrote: Why do Atheist believe evolution cancels out creationism?
How does creationism still work in the theological sense along with evolution? The official position of the Catholic church is that evolution is true. That begs the question: what did Jesus die for if Adam & Eve never fell? We're getting saved from what?
Simply put "we" take the account of Creation in Genesis and marry it with the known fossil record. For instance Creation Happened as recorded, but where most assume a very limited time frame from the creation of man and the fall from grace. we insert the 900 trillion billion years or whatever the new number is that explains the existing fossil records.
Eden is well defined paradise bordered by 4 rivers, it was a paradise where Man made in the image of God resided. Everything outside of those rivers progressed and evolved at whatever the going rate was.
Everything in the garden or at least Man (Created in the Image of God) was created to be what man was about 5000 years ago.
That is when "Created in the Image of God Man." first intermingled with descended from apes man, that you all seem to be so keen on. This explains Cains wife, the cities and all of the "other people" atheists believe to be proof of inconsistencies in the genesis account.
Remember outside of the 7 days of creation, the Genesis account only focuses on what happens in the Garden of Eden until the fall of man. This does not mean everything outside of the boarders of eden, (the rest of the earth) ceased to exist.
(March 20, 2012 at 8:06 am)Hunter9035 Wrote: Because God says how he created us, already human, he spoke us into existence. If he created swamp muck and we crawled out of such, he might have told us that, but that's not what He did. When you believe in God, you take the whole bible as truth, not your own cross bred interpretation of some hybrid creation/evolution.
He spoke Man Created in the image of God into existence. there was one example of one man being created this way. No one else was.