[thechat] Mythology was comics

[john.peace]

>Q2
>Explain the Theory of Evolution/Big Bang vs. Creation.

I like this Q...because I've been through some major confrontations with the
leader/teacher of a Bible study I go to and some of the more outspoken,
forceful, ignorant-of-science members of said study.

There's this sentiment in Christian culture that evolution/cosmological
theory are irreconcilable with scripture. I hear Christians all the time
talk about how if you accept evolution as a possibility, you are denying
that God created everything...

That betrays a lack of understanding of both scripture and science (in my
opinion).

In Genesis, God creates the universe...this creation happens in about 10
verses, hardly an exhaustive explanation of the technical specs of how
creation was all woven together. I've always looked at that and just thought
he was trying to say that creation is his expression...a product of his
inspiration and will. Whether he used a point of singularity, the big bang,
evolution or any other construct available is essentially irrelevant.

I guess the implication is that if you go back far enough, you encounter a
being that is not quite human, and therefore not subject to the relationship
that God spells out between himself and humans. The question, 'where does
humanity begin' comes up. But I believe that man's origin is in God's
will...whether it may also be in single celled sea organisms of eons ago is
inconsequential, since that was just a way for God to create man.

Anyway, cosmology and evolution science don't threaten my faith the way I've
seen them freak out others...

jc