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Wyrd of Gawd · September 21, 2015 at 11:49 am

**Whateverist** · September 21, 2015 at 11:59 am

(September 16, 2015 at 12:31 pm)Divinity Wrote: Many people have trouble with anything that goes against their personal beliefs.

As a Deist I readily accept evolution as the best explanation for what happened. I don't think god is some magic man in the sky, but more akin to a scientist himself. Of course I also readily accept that this god is not omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent.

Okay not omni-anything. But what about the maker of everything? Is that negotiable? How about a deity that didn't create anything except the conscious experience that you're having right now? One that only has the power to: afflict you with Freudian slips from time to time; or give you bursts of insight and inspiration; or perhaps throw you into a deep dark depression. Would you still call yourself a Deist if this was all the deity there was?

**robvalue** · September 21, 2015 at 2:14 pm

Pretty sure that's against the deist TOS Tongue

~~Drich~~ · September 22, 2015 at 10:20 am

Wyrd of Gawd · September 22, 2015 at 7:44 pm

~~Drich~~ · September 23, 2015 at 10:23 am

SofaKingHigh · September 23, 2015 at 11:55 am

~~Drich~~ · September 28, 2015 at 10:03 am

(September 21, 2015 at 9:57 am)Rhythm Wrote: That you find the date ranges offered by genesis inconvenient for your beliefs......doesn't mean that they aren't there, lol. For a guy who claims to put alot of stock in the bible, you're awfully inconsistent.

Again, the bible does not put dates on anything. The dates were added some 1500 years after the canon of scripture was closed. Dark ages religion assumed (wrongly) that because we were 6000 years out of the garden that meant we were 6000 years off of creation. When in fact that bible gives no time line between the end of creation and the exodus of the garden.

loganonekenobi · September 28, 2015 at 10:10 am

(September 16, 2015 at 12:30 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Yes, what Exian said. I went to a Catholic grade school, where we were actually taught evolution lol. Most of us do believe evolution.

I learn something new. I was certain the Catholic church would NOT teach evolution. Guess i was wrong.

**robvalue** · September 28, 2015 at 10:16 am

I was wondering about that. Since the Catholic Church isn't meant to change or something, how could they have always accepted evolution? And I doubt they originally allowed people to say the OT was a load of allegories either. Did they? This sounds more like just rolling with the punches.

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