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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan@May 2 2005, 09:46 PM
Well, I find the findings of the poll difficult to believe.# When you give people 3 very narrow statements and tell them to pick the one closest to what they believed your results are going to be skewed.# Why was the phrase within the last 10000 yrs included in the only non-evoltuionary statement?# What level of change constitutes evolution?# Is Neandretal man human? It's way to complex an issue to sum up with 3 narrow statements.
Irrelevant to the point at hand though.
I don't have an interpretation of creation in the bible, but I can say that# I don't believe that if a God created everything that he did it in 144 hours.# I don't believe all he had to do was say let there be light and there was light.# As I mentioned in an earlier post, the account of something that unfathomable would have to be dumbed down considerably to appeal to the masses.
My point is that to there is nothing in either theory that eliminates the possibility of the other being truth.# If were going to use people who interpret the bible on a word by word literal basis as the keystone of an argument against what I said then you win I guess.
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Well if you don't want to use that view of the biblical interpretation, but can't give me a concise statement of what you believe then we can't have any type of discussion at all.
As for the poll, IMO it actually does a pretty good job of giving options which virtually anyone can feel comfortable choosing. One one end you have pure Dawinian evolution, on the other end strict literal biblical doctrine, and in the middle man changing over time but still some role for god. It won't hit some people's beliefs bang on, but can you honestly see some people who don't actually believe in the strict biblical interpretation picking that option because the median option was so far from their true belief? I can't imagine what that belief would be.
My point is that to there is nothing in either theory that eliminates the possibility of the other being truth.
I can't see how you can say that without a firm grip on what you actually believe happened.
Evolution can't be taught completely without including the notion that billions of years ago in the primordial stew on some planet a little group of organic elements organized into a self-replicating structure that, over time, under the influence of natural selection, gave rise to all of the living things that are found and have ever been found on Earth.
If that doesn't contradict your religious based view then yes, both can coexist.