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03 August 2006

Fundamental Beliefs

There are creationists and there are evolutionists. They are at opposite ends of a belief spectrum.

I have never understood their problem. If you believe in God as the creator of the universe and this world, then what is wrong with regarding the evolutionary process as part of that creation?

To those people who get hung up on the 6 days of creation and a 7th day of rest as written in the Bible, this too is no problem. A "day" as we know it could not have existed before the creation of the earth and its place in the solar system. References to periods of time in the Old Testament appear to be very shaky; people apparently reached ages measured in hundreds of years. How credible is that?

I interpret the story of the creation as an allegorical description of a 6-stage process; the exact timing is not important. A black and white interpretation of anything is usually faulty. The creationists and evolutionists should make their way towards the middle of the belief spectrum and see how much they have in common.

3 comments:

Larjmarj said...

The thing is that Creationists don't see ANYTHING as allegory. They are very concrete in their thinking and are passing of these beliefs to the next generation with the fear of divine retribution for any diversion from these beliefs. Then our government wonders why our students lag so far behind other countries in science? Instead of tax dollars being poured in to education where it is desperately needed we're funding "Faith based initiatives". I guess that's what you get when there's a "C" student in the White House!

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