RE: Are Evolution and Christianity Completely Incompatible?
July 13, 2015 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2015 at 5:14 pm by Dystopia.)
(July 13, 2015 at 4:58 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: I do not see how they could be compatible.
Evolution specifically precludes the existence of Adam and Eve.
No Adam and Eve, no breaking Yahweh's rule about eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. No eating the fruit, no fall. No fall, no original sin, no reason for god to sacrifice Jesus.
I don't want to sound too obvious, but more than what the bible says I care about what Christians do in real life - A book is just words, it means nothing if people don't follow it or can't read it properly and decent critical thinking. From what I know, America seems to have a high number of creationists who think the bible is literally the word of god all mighty, but I've never personally met a Christian who believed in Creationism - In fact, some actually ridicule it and feel ashamed to be in the "same" group as those people (I'm European) - Intellectually it's a little dishonest to argue for compatibility between the two, but it's not abstractly impossible as the only requirement is to have a person who supports evolution and is a Christian.
I think the incompatibility between Christianity and X or Y scientific fact/theory is a bad way of appeal to ridicule and I don't like it. There's better ways to refute a Christian claim.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
