Making waves (Introduction)
DAVID: The bible is not anti-evolution. It again depends on the interpretation. If God guided evolution then the bible is correct. Just stay away from the 6-day creation of the KJV. Yom always means an instant in time to an eon. Take your pick.-dhw: Please tell me the biblical text that can be interpreted as meaning that "bovines, fish, birds and primates" all go back to a common ancestor. You keep telling us that God's purpose for evolution was humans, and of all the bible-versus-evolution controversies, this is surely the most far-reaching: Ge, 2, 7: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Ge. 2, 21-22: "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman..." Please explain to me how to interpret that as meaning that humans and chimps split off from a common ancestor.-DAVID: Cherry-picker! In Genesis 1:20 "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures". If Yom is an 'eon', the swarm developed over time. The bible is written to be interpreted, not taken verbatim.-This is not cherry-picking; it's a fundamental part of the biblical anti-evolutionist creationist argument! It is you who claim that the bible is not anti-evolution, so let me once more ask you to explain how the above account can be interpreted to mean that humans and chimps diverged from a common ancestor and were not specially created. If you can't do so, but can only plead that the bible is not to be taken verbatim, you may as well argue that the bible is not anti-evolution because we needn't take any notice of what it says.
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