SpokenTruth said:
But that's arbitrary. Simply saying there are parts that do not disagree does not imply anything. You may as well say there are certain ideas that are not opposite at all in both video game development and religion. While I have agreed that science and religion can coexist and that they are not directly opposite each other, it has little value to compare them. As for the Bible being a smaller version of the scientific evolutionary theory, can you elaborate on that? |
In a very simple way, just compare the sequences that the Genesis story tells about the creation of the planet and its beings and the sequence that the scientific evolutionary theory tells. There´s a lot of parallels. Even the existence of dinosaurs (or the giant beasts) is mentioned in the Bible.
I once did a loooong elaborated study about it when I was in a seminar, but I don´t see any need to go further on it here. One of my conclusions is that many people - Christians included - don´t understand that the Genesis is not a literal telling of the creation. It´s a figurative one passed away from generations by oral tradition. What If I tell you that Adam and Eve were NOT the first man and woman? The Bible give clues that God created man and woman - i. e., they already existed in the planet - much before Adam and Eve. For many Christians this is nuts, but not for anyone who puts a deep thought on how and on which context he Bible was written. And of course it is not perfect at all.
