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Originally Posted by T@T
if he can't answer a simple question of his beliefs in the field, spin it anyway you want but true christians do not believe in true evolution. Like the pope, they always spin it back to god starting it.
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That's another really annoying thing, the conflagration of evolution with abiogenesis.
One is the process in which organisms change over time. The other is the origin of life. The catholic church has stated that evolution is an acceptable mechanism but the origin of life is still creationism. If that's the path of least resistance, that works for me. All the scientific evidence is still there but if you really need to believe, then your faith would be enough. You could always just say maybe god hit that perfect recipe of amino acids with with just the right dash of lightning (because he has mastery over quantum mechanics LOL) and there you go. Fiat Lux! Fiat Life!
I've never understood why conservative christianity (or any religion) has such a problem with stretching this kind of logic and how they can make this into a moral debate or issue. There's no verse in the Bible that says every single thing in it must be read literally and exactly as written down with absolutely no room for interpretation. In fact, some of the greatest tenets of the other two big religions - Judaism and Islam have much of their religion rooted in books or oral histories of discussion and interpretation (Talmud and Hadith)