(July 13, 2015 at 7:56 pm)whateverist Wrote: ...
But if you read the bible allegorically, then there is no reason whatsoever to reject evolution.
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But what then, is the garden of eden? What does the garden of eden represent? What of original sin? How can the allegory make any sense at all if evolution is true? And how could evolution be compatible with a good, omnipotent, omniscient god? Evolution is brutal and nasty, and any being that chose that method to make something either is incapable of something better (so not omnipotent) or just does not mind a lot of suffering (so not good at all).
It seems to me that the only way one could suppose that evolution is compatible with the Bible, even just taking the Bible as metaphorically true, is to not pay attention to any of the details or think it through.
What I have noticed is people saying "metaphor" and "allegory" and then simply ignoring what the stories say altogether. You can see that in this thread:
http://atheistforums.org/thread-34389.html
When a story is an allegory, the story still says whatever it says, and one must make sense of it somehow, or it fails as an allegory.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
