According to New Scientist, some Christian churches are beginning to embrace evolutionism and are this Sunday holding "Evolution Sunday."
Considering I've been telling people since 1997 that Christianity and Evolution can go perfectly hand-in-hand, I am very excited about this. I posted a small bit about the duality in my blog on September 30, 2004, titled "Discarding the Evidence." To go into it in a bit more detail, the idea is as follows:
#1: The translation of time in Genesis is a weak translation. The original ancient Hebrew never said that each event happened "the next day" but rather "another day." With this view, the seven days of creation could be separated by millions or even billions of years.
#2: The word "make" can mean to build slowly over time, just as humans might make a house. So, when God says "let Us make man in Our own image," it could be that He doesn't mean "instantly, now," but rather something similar to "let Us put into place the biological mechanisms that will eventually lead to the creation of man in Our image."
#3: God, being the great and powerful ruler of the universe, would have the foresight and ability to start the universe in exactly the configuration needed in order to allow these biological processes to produce humanity. Like a master of dominos who sets up a display thousands of pieces long, knowing that by pushing on just one of them, a chain reaction will occur causing all the others to fall down, God could produce particles and energy in exactly the configuration necessary to produce exactly the right people and exactly the right universal situations to produce specific people, including Adam, Abraham, and even those of us alive today.
This view does not take any power away from God. If anything, it remarks even further on the intelligence of God than creationist views do. It ascribes to God a wisdom and knowledge, a supreme intelligence and ability to plan, that are far greater than anything conventional Christian teachings cover.
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Saturday, February 10, 2007
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You put your words in sense of no argue with God, as what you mentioned, evolution can go hand-in hand with Christianity, cool...
“Darwin wrote that at the time of Origin, he could be viewed as a theist, or one who had the conviction of the existence of God. Ideas and perspectives change over time and in 1876 Darwin stated: "The mystery of the beginning of all things is impossible by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."”
For me, Christian’s faith is not easy in hold, fragile and easily be deprive by logical reasons and proves.
I am curious, you put your reasons of evolutionism in purpose of “defend” or “consolidate” Christianity’s faith?
When I was originally examining the issue, it was done in order to bash evolution. I had heard the common Christian rhetoric which states that all the big links are missing, etc. I never really bought into the whole "God placed fossils here to trick us" idea because I don't think God would intentionally mislead us. Other Christians who fight against the idea of billion-year-old-Earth said that Carbon dating isn't a valid method of determining age, but the science behind the method is sound so that always bugged me as well. What I ultimately realized is that Christianity and science don't have to be at odds with each other. Now, when I post articles like this, it isn't to defend my own faith to the world, but to rather attempt to convince people of that same concept.
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