ImmortalFlame gave a good response to this. If you are willing to accept humanity as not having literally been created out of dust, then why not accept what countless scientists have to say about evolution? Your religious views wouldn't be compromised.
Does anyone else find themselves looking up a word in a dictionary and then spend time reading the rest of the page just out of interest?
Maybe it's just me.
I have too much time to spare.
The professor that taught me evolution was also an Anglican minister. He had no problem accepting evolution, viewing it as god's way of unfolding creation. Christian fundamentalists, for whatever reason, seem so resolute in their opposition to evolution, despite the fact that it doesn't feature...
Danmac
Of course there are dissenters. That wasn't my point. I feel you are avoiding my questions (which is fair enough - if you don't want to answer them, then just say so)
Given that you have aired your views on abiogenesis and evolution, I am talking about the evidence pertaining to them. Chemists, biologists and geologists view the physical evidence in a certain way, but people such as yourself take that same evidence and interpret in a different way, allowing...
Genesis 8: 8-9 Noah send out a dove. The land is still flooded, and the dove has nowhere to land. Dove returns to the ark.
Genesis 8: 10 Noah then waits for seven days before sending out the dove again. Dove returns that evening with an olive leaf.
So, within a seven-day period, the water that...