(May 22, 2012 at 12:51 pm)RaphielDrake Wrote:(May 22, 2012 at 12:03 pm)Polaris Wrote: Well myself and the Christians I know (most of them at my old Church were either doctors or scientists so that may explain it) or at least they never lead me to believe otherwise, believe in evolution and just add God as the guiding force. I think we started as evolutionists and then just fit our religious beliefs into that mold instead of the other way around.
If your religious beliefs are interchangable to the point you can more or less mold them around the facts is there really any point in hanging onto them? At some point it has to be painfully obvious its being used to fill the gaps in our knowledge we don't yet have enough data to cover.
What happens when that gap becomes smaller yet again due to human advancement? Will the concept of God retreat further back into the gap? When is that gap too small to hide in?
At what point are we to admit religion is the equivilent of an aging band-aid on a gunshot wound it can't possibly treat? That band-aid is no more a substitute for proper medical treatment than faith is for research.
Why humor it?
Well see the only thing I change is the first part of Genesis. Most of the rest, I view either as history or legend history (aka it's based off history, but the details have become corrupted over the years).
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
