(May 8, 2014 at 5:37 am)FreeTony Wrote:(May 8, 2014 at 5:14 am)Zen Badger Wrote: Because to accept evolution and what it implies means you have to utterly reject the myth of Christianity.
And one of the hardest thing a person can do is give up what they believe.
It's quite easy to say "your're not meant to take that part literally" though. Apparently it is obvious to tell which bits are and are not literal, though the results of this determination seem to be entirely dependant on the education of the Christian.
I sometimes think I'm on an exclusively American Forum. The majority of Christians in England accept evolution and a whole lot of other stuff. The Church of England is very laid back about scriptural interpretation. It's the fundamentalists/religious Right in the US that take it all literally. As I have posted elsewhere on this forum, even the Pope recently announced the Catholic Church accepts evolution with the caveat that God started it all off. By the way, even if God set things off, it still does not follow that he has or wants a personal relationship with humans. There is evolution happening on other planets and some of them will no doubt give rise to intelligence. Will those intelligent species also be sent the alien equivalent of Jesus?
