(January 18, 2015 at 2:27 am)Drich Wrote: i wasn't aware of a second one.The first creation account is Genesis 1:1-2:3. The second account is Genesis 2:4-2:25. The focus of attention, the order of creation, and god's method of creating are among the things that differentiate the two, such that it's pretty easy to see that someone took two separate creation stories and put them end-to-end.
As for the soul, depending on the translation the Bible tells us that people and animals are souls, not that they have them. If I am not mistaken, it's not until Revelations that there is any indication that humans would take up spirit bodies and go to heaven, so the concept of a soul separate from the body is not clearly defined until then. And with Revelations being the description of a dream sequence, it's possible that this was an allegorical account. The concept of a soul separate from the body relies on specific translations of the Bible, otherwise it's very difficult to substantiate it without considerable cherry picking.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
