(March 14, 2014 at 5:45 pm)Heywood Wrote: I said evolution is not inconsistent with a theistic world view. I never said it did not contradict any religious tenets.
Sounds to me like you're trying to hide behind the mask of a general theist, rather than exposing your actual beliefs to any scrutiny.
Is evolution consistent with your specific beliefs? The creator entity you repeatedly reference seems an awful lot like Yahweh hiding behind a curtain. Evolution is consistent with an Abrahamic belief system only if one takes advantage of vague phrasing to make it seem as if those Bronze Age desert goatherders actually knew about how evolution took billions of years rather than a single week, and they decided to represent that with a metaphor.
I can't really say I respect a fundie, but they do, at least, have the decency to not resort to weasel wording. They know their beliefs are retrograde, but it doesn't bother them. Gotta value the honesty, if nothing else.
