RE: Lack of Apologetical predictions

Glenn R. Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Fri, 06 Nov 1998 15:56:11 -0600

At 01:24 PM 11/6/98 -0700, Kevin L. O'Brien wrote:
>Greetings Glenn:
>
>"They would have perfectly well been able to understand a statement by God
>such as: 'Life arose from mud.' That would entirely encapsulate the
>evolutionary concept with out any scientific jargon. But this isn't what
>happened."
>
>Well, now, let's not be hasty. The Bible says that God made man from the
dust >of the ground; the Hebrew word for dust also means mud. Perhaps God
was >trying to tell the authors that man evolved, but they didn't get the
>symbolism.

I am not being hasty. I believe exactly what you are saying here. Genesis
1:24 says let the earth bring forth living creatures. it was the earth
that actually did the creating--at the direction of god. And yes,
Christians have missed that point.

> After all, evolution is more than just "life arose from mud". Hence the
>scene in the Eden story where God fashions man like a sculptor working in
clay >instead of describing a divinely guided evolutionary process starting
with >mud.
>
>In other words, part of the problem may just be that God tells us the
whole >truth, but we poor mortals simply don't understand what we are
hearing, so we >retell it in a way we can understand, a way that is mostly
wrong in the >details but contains kernels of divine truth.

I agree. But, that doesn't allow us, in my opinion to change or alter our
standard of truth, our epistemology if you will. To me this interpretation
of Genesis is better than saying it has no connection with history.

glenn

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