Coram Populo: Questioning Faith

[lordlucan]

Our God is an awesome God
He reigns from heaven above
With wisdom, power, and love
Our God is an awesome God

Rich Mullins

I can't help feeling that the response from many religions to Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection has to go down as one of the most spectacular missed opportunities in the history of history itself. I

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[newsong]

Speaking as a Christian: If a person believes the entirety of the Bible is true, and indeed the words in it make that claim - which starts an infinity loop... There are some parts of the Bible that are literal, and some figurative. Usually the figurative parts are prefaced as parables or prophecy, etc

[lordlucan]

It's not so much that I think God would be more powerful doing the whole creation business over billions of years, it's that I think He would have had far more fun that way. Also, in this case, I definitely would not use the word "theory". It's a thought, nothing more.

As far as dust goes, humans are made out of minerals. Dust in Hebrew here is basically "substances of the Earth."

That I have no problem with at all.

The rest of what you said I'm still mulling over. :)

[newsong]

Hmmm. Technically, if God is omni-everything, he could have unlimited amounts of fun in any human span of time.

That's pretty awesome, =D

[lordlucan]

True, true. I hope you're right about that, anyway, because I dread to think what might happen if God ever got bored.

[blonde_lili]

I can never understand why a belief in science or Christianity has to be mutually exclusive. Why do so many people insist on taking the Good Book so literally, when I honestly doubt if it was ever intended to be (and even if it was, I understand the gospels were passed down orally for up to 200 years before somebody actually wrote them down, which potentially leaves us with all kinds of purple monkey dishwahers) and when we have such overwhelming evidence in favour of other creation/life theories? Honestly, from the heathen's perspective, it's self-delusion. If it weren't religion, we would quite possibly lock some of these people up. Not that I'm condoning the enforced hospitalisation of the mentally ill. Or, you know, believers.

Don't want to be too controversial, but when you're raised outside of any faith, arguments for things such as 'Intelligent Design' are just mind-boggling.