Subduction Zone
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And one of these ideas is massively supported by evidence and the other has none. Why would any rational thinker believe the one without evidence?
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Do people still believe everyone decended from Adam and Eve?
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capumetu
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Hi Audie, may I ask for an example, I will be glad to give you our reasons for the belief or practice.
capumetu
Active Member
I have offered 2 possibilities of where we came from, seems like you accept neither, may I ask where you believe we came from?
capumetu
Active Member
Audie
Veteran Member
Essentially, the entire thing, with gems of garbage like Genesis.
Of course, there is very little
agreement what to take seriously.
Growing up in Hong Kong, I saw the
religion as as very alien and weird.
ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
A single couple is directly falsified by evidence. Your other option was a single cell "becoming alive" which is just bizarre, a cell would have had to evolve from something simpler.
Audie
Veteran Member
What do you mean, " came from"?
Origin of the universe, or the appearance of people ?
capumetu
Active Member
Genesis means beginning maam, you and I are well aware that we had a beginning.
If there is anything in particular you find in error about the Christian faith, again I will be glad to address it.
capumetu
Active Member
either, although the latter is what I was referring to
Audie
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Audie
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Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
If you have to ask then you do not understand the concept of evidence. How about going over that idea first?
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
Oh so wrong. Fractally wrong.
Not all, in fact not even most Christians believe the Adam and Eve myth. Don't conflate the beliefs of some American Christians with the beliefs of all Christians. Your description of abiogenesis is amazingly wrong and worse yet evolution does not rely on abiogenesis.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
The last poll I saw on this confirms what you said above, namely that roughly 70% of Christian theologians here in the States do accept the ToE, for example, as long as it is understood that God was behind it all.
As some have seen me post, including fairly recently, my theory is that the Biblical Creation myths* (1:1 & 2:4) are likely in refutation of the earlier and much more widespread Babylonian creation account that was polytheistic. Thus, it deals with the basic Jewish concepts dealing with a monotheistic belief versus a polytheistic one.
*obviously "myth" does not mean falsehood but deals with a story meant to teach some basic beliefs, such as what a parable does.
It looked thus here too.
Audie
Veteran Member
Odd how few ever seem to notice.
capumetu
Active Member
I believe Jehovah created them maam. I believe the mountains were created to a greater extent from the flood. I believe the earth was a creation as well.
Audie
Veteran Member
IOW, all belief, no knowledge.
Doesn't matter how many ways to
prove there was no flood, or show
how mountains are actually formed.
Faith on a foundation of sand.
Why wouldn't it make sense? I think in the days of Cain and Abel brothers and sisters weren't close friends they were more like distant cousins.
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
And how long ago was that?