At risk of sounding like a total fool my idea is that the God of the bible was an alien. I know the idea is not novel but to me it makes sense. Even today most people think of gods and angles coming down from the heavens and actually look up ward (space) and of course the whole thing about destroying cities with celestial fire turning any who see it to salt.... it has some metaphor to advanced tech. It would be easy to convince primitive man they were gods with such tech.
That may be what happened. So here you are the alien gods of the newly civilized man. Men have barely come out of the caves. How are you going to explain 13 billion years of creation or 3.5 billion years of complex evolution to such people.
If this/these deity/dieties did then the writers (moses, abraham) probably either couldn't understand the concept of evolution or such a time scale or they figured no one would believe them so they wrote the deities words as they could understand them or sell them to the people.
Just a strange but possible explantion of why evolution and Christianity might co-exist.
That may be what happened. So here you are the alien gods of the newly civilized man. Men have barely come out of the caves. How are you going to explain 13 billion years of creation or 3.5 billion years of complex evolution to such people.
If this/these deity/dieties did then the writers (moses, abraham) probably either couldn't understand the concept of evolution or such a time scale or they figured no one would believe them so they wrote the deities words as they could understand them or sell them to the people.
Just a strange but possible explantion of why evolution and Christianity might co-exist.
