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Don't mind if I do...Originally Posted by LimitedRetroOG
Watch this turn into a Creationism vs. Evolution debate.
I like to believe in what I call Evolutionary Creationism which is creation-by-way-of-evolution. If God is brilliant enough to know the afters prior to thebefores, I'm sure he could craft a self sustaining system of creation and adaption and let it snowball into the many species and creatures that arepresent today. He sparked it with the Big Bang, once he created the Primordial Atom. The world was created in 7 "days" in the sense that"day" can also mean "era" as in "back in my day". So I assume that 70 percent of the bible is really metaphorical and symbolicand 30 percent is misconstrued and tampered quotes and images. It contains NO absolutetruth whatsoever, and neither does any other religious book. But they do contain the keys to unlock absolute truth. They're all filled with partial truths, riddles, and metaphors. Where they differin is in the traditions and conventions of the people that wrote them; things like saying no to pork or fasting for Lent. Where they are alike, lies the slimpossiblity to deduce some absolute truth. Ifyou're good, you can triangulate absolutetruth by analyzing and learning theological wisdom from multiple sources.