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Post #101558

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Trooperman
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A Big Debate for the New Century
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Date created
19-Apr-2005, 9:46 AM
Exactly. Understand that much of what is in the Bible is symbolic and not meant to be taken literally at all. I am a Christian but do not believe that we were created literally in 6 days (with 7 being a day of rest). It may have been an expression for "a long time" (as was "forty days") at the time Genesis was written. It may have been more noteworthy had it said, "64 days" or 103 days". But "7" is a perfect and symbolic number in the Church, which leads me to believe that it is not meant to be a literal fact. Who was around back then to keep track, anyway?

And the Bible doesn't tell us how the universe was created; it could very well have been done with a "Big Bang". But the theory that there was just a "Big Bang", air, water, the Earth, and everything else just popped out of a void (for scientific reasons), and that little single-celled organisms "evolved" into humans with souls and the ability to reason is ridiculous, IMO.

I do, however, believe in the part of evolution stating that species unable to adapt die, and that species can improve over time.