(April 11, 2014 at 11:36 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: Understand. But, why is it essential for Christians to perpetuate this myth that evolution is a falsehood? In other words, why do they feel that refuting it is necessary to supporting their faith? Many denominations support evolution, it is more the 'fundie' side that doesn't because they uphold Genesis as literal truth. Many denominations treat Genesis as metaphorical in nature.There's that whole cognitive dissonance thing again. I cannot fathom how even the most liberal interpretation of the Bible could mesh with evolution. We all started as single celled organisms. Even if you take the Genesis account figuratively, it's hard to mesh that.
Head scratcher.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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