"real question?!"
Rivers, Will (riversw@spawar.navy.mil)
Mon, 6 Jul 1998 22:19:26 -0400 Well...
Could the real question be??
If the claims, that the Bible states, the earth was created in 7 days
when (or if) in fact it was not...how can the belief in the "yet unseen"
portions of the Bible, that we are asked to believe on faith, be
accepted? We try to explain around science or we just ignore it until
it knocks us in the head, yet more evidence are discovered that the
world has been around a long, long time with man playing a long
historical role.
Could the belief in the Bible be one "of many" paths to our God? If we
throw out or explain away Bible myth, to boil the Bible down to "Love
thy God, Love thy neighbor" then is it not any different than many noble
philosophies throughout history leading man to a higher form of
development with an awareness of a supreme being?
How much of the Bible can be considered divinely inspired and how much
is myth? How much of the story of an after life is myth or wishful
thinking? Is God's plan for eternal life really the perpetuation and
continued improvement of our species?
Asking the questions...
Will
Donald Howes [dhowes@ansc.une.edu.au] wrote:
>Will the real question please stand up?!
>I don't think it really matters if you believe evolution was God's tool
for creation, I think the >only thing that matters at all in the whole
world, is how are you going to respond to Jesus and >his claims.
>In terms of evolution though, I think the question is "did it happen on
a macro scale?".
>I have doubts about how and why an organism would change from asexual
reprodution to >sexual reprodution. And how something would evolve from
laying eggs in water to laying >eggs on land, to not laying eggs at all!