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| Taral-DLOS wrote: |
I'm a firm believer that the universe obeys natural laws, but that those laws were ordained by a Creator (namely God, as understood by left/centre Christian groups; I'm a Church of England Anglican and my wife is United, so we mostly agree on things).
It's the rare balance than many vocal groups in the newsmedia never seem to grasp. You can believe in evolution and in God at the same time. What you can't believe simultaneously is evolution and a literal interpretation of the Bible in its entirety.
So yes. Science, and interpretation of the bible (a belief that some of it is symbolic, some of it is wrong, and some of it may be absent or can be extrapolated, e.g. I believe Jesus's Love Thy Neighbour... and Do Unto Others... outweigh some intolerant beliefs found in the Old Testament). |
I feel like creation vs. evolution debates are missing the point. The people who wrote the Bible weren't empirical evidence Nazis like we are and had a better understanding of myth and symbolism. I've had a couple Christians object to me using the word "myth" when talking about the Bible, but I think that just shows how ignorant us moderns are on the subject. It's either literal and true or mythical and useless. When we use the word "myth" we generally use it in the "10 Myths About Dieting" sense and not in the full sense our ancestors gave it. A myth is not a quaint story explaining scientific phenomena that people told when they were ignorant and unenlightened. The Bible is for learning about God not learning a science lesson.
Anyway (notice how this subject always comes up  )...
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Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter east.
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