I've been discussing cavemen with my religious friends lately and asking them what they thought about the church's change in philosophy. When I was still in church, they would deny that cavemen existed at all. The whole thing was a giant hoax involving atheist scientists mising together ape and human bones to disprove the bible.
Nowadays it seems they accept the idea of cavemen, but say that they were decendants of noah.
When asked their stance, most either quoted random bible passages saying god created EVERYTHING, or talked about how there must be a god because of how complex atoms are.
One quoted passages including the term "womb" and asked how the bible knew about a womb when science didnt discover it until the 19th century. (whaaaaat?).
Another suggested that perhaps adam and eve were in fact cavemen.
To which of course I had to respond: Adam and eve were created in god's own image. -Would that make god a caveman?
What I continue to find striking though is many of my christian friends have no issue saying they dont follow the bible, but still believe in God. ..completely putting aside the idea that the bible is supposed to BE gods word.
They say 'I believe in science and the big bang theory, but maybe GOD created the big bang.'
One other thing I found interesting, and i shared this with my religious friends is this statement made by a christian scientist:
"For Christianity to remain intellectually credible and culturally relevant, it must be willing to revise -- and thereby enrich -- its formulation of classic doctrines if the secure findings of science call for revision." - John Collins, a Christian scientist and professor of Old Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Mo
Nowadays it seems they accept the idea of cavemen, but say that they were decendants of noah.
When asked their stance, most either quoted random bible passages saying god created EVERYTHING, or talked about how there must be a god because of how complex atoms are.
One quoted passages including the term "womb" and asked how the bible knew about a womb when science didnt discover it until the 19th century. (whaaaaat?).
Another suggested that perhaps adam and eve were in fact cavemen.
To which of course I had to respond: Adam and eve were created in god's own image. -Would that make god a caveman?
What I continue to find striking though is many of my christian friends have no issue saying they dont follow the bible, but still believe in God. ..completely putting aside the idea that the bible is supposed to BE gods word.
They say 'I believe in science and the big bang theory, but maybe GOD created the big bang.'
One other thing I found interesting, and i shared this with my religious friends is this statement made by a christian scientist:
"For Christianity to remain intellectually credible and culturally relevant, it must be willing to revise -- and thereby enrich -- its formulation of classic doctrines if the secure findings of science call for revision." - John Collins, a Christian scientist and professor of Old Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Mo
