My challenge is as follows, and I quote:
IS Genesis 1 reduced to symbols so that a literal teaching of creation can be replaced with a literal teaching of evolution?
As in the mod dern teaching of evolution.
If I take a course on mod dern theistic evolucifershun, would I have to reduce things in Genesis 1 to symbols, allegory, or what et cetera ever, in favor of mod dern evilution?
9 comments
“My challenge is as follows, and I quote:”
Is this your challenge or someone else’s? Why are you quoting it? Is it from you or some other nutburger?
“IS Genesis 1 reduced to symbols so that a literal teaching of creation can be replaced with a literal teaching of evolution?”
No. EITHER Genesis is meant as a literal history or it’s a parable of creation but written with zero knowledge of modern science holdings about the history of the universe, Earth, and life on Earth.
You cannot eat this cake and still have it.
“As in the mod dern teaching of evolution.”
Yeah, i figured you meant today’s understanding, which is remarkably self-centered and self-important. IFF Genesis is a parable, it would have to be a parable for our current understanding AND Victorian understanding AND Hanoverian understanding AND future understandings until Judgment Day. The whole time the Bible would be expected to be applicable. WHich just isn’t terribly likely, is it?
“If I take a course on mod dern theistic evolucifershun,”
Oh, well, if you’re going to poison the well, the answer to the ‘challenge’ is shut the fuck up, idiot.
As in the mod dern
Oh, I dunno.
Did a certain American with the first name Bruce ride a Vespa or Lambretta scooter with chrome & lots of mirrors, while he wore a fishtail parka with the RAF roundel & the words ‘The Who’ on the back of such…?! [/Doug Piranha-levels of sarcasm]
–EDIT–
Doing a little research on the equally little-brained OP, in comparison with another member of that forum there’s this fact:
dlamberth
Joined Oct 12, 2003
Number of posts: 20,179
AV1611VET
Joined Jun 18, 2006
Number of posts: 3,856,213
It's official: AV1611VET has no life.
"God hates pride. In his pride, Satan decided he would exalt himself and take over the throne of God. This is where evolution started. It started in heaven in the heart of Satan. Satan and a number of angels that followed him were cast down to the earth. Then we have the story repeated in the heart of man. Man is trying to exalt himself. This is what evolution is teaching today, that man is the pinnacle, the ultimate.
“When Satan realized he could not take over the throne of God, he decided to destroy what God had created instead. Satan, in the form of a serpent, brought the doctrine of evolution to the Garden of Eden. …”
–Kent Hovind, “Dissertation for Doctor of Philosophy in Christian Education”
QED.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
To post a comment, you'll need to Sign in or Register . Making an account also allows you to claim credit for submitting quotes, and to vote on quotes and comments. You don't even need to give us your email address.