Actually, I don't think scientists are stupid at all. In fact, I readily accept natural selection--the strongest of a kind living to go and reproduce. That is something that we can easily see, and something that I would be a fool not to accept. I do think, however, that in evolution, there is flimsy evidence, and many of the evidence that has already been contradicted by *science* is still used while being taught evolution.
For example, we're taught embryology, which basically says that a human embryo goes through its evolutionary history in the mother's womb. That was refuted decades ago. Yet, where is it? Still in our science textbooks.
I agree with you that it's not impossible to believe in creation and accept science--that was what the entire entry was all about. In the Christian faith, however, if you take the Bible the way it was written, and the way it was taken for more than 2,000 years, there is no way to even consider it being metaphorical. With the Genesis story, why would God use metaphor *anyway*? Wouldn't that have to be *clearest* so that the people reading it know *exactly* where they came from?
There are some people that do accept evolution and the Bible, but in doing so, they're basically saying they don't believe in Genesis, where it says that God created everyone *from their own kind*. So, yes. It's not impossible, but it's Biblically incorrect.
Besides, what I was trying to say in this entry is basically: Christians and creationists aren't stupid. Try to stop making us out to be anti-science, Bible-thumping idiots. :)
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For example, we're taught embryology, which basically says that a human embryo goes through its evolutionary history in the mother's womb. That was refuted decades ago. Yet, where is it? Still in our science textbooks.
I agree with you that it's not impossible to believe in creation and accept science--that was what the entire entry was all about. In the Christian faith, however, if you take the Bible the way it was written, and the way it was taken for more than 2,000 years, there is no way to even consider it being metaphorical. With the Genesis story, why would God use metaphor *anyway*? Wouldn't that have to be *clearest* so that the people reading it know *exactly* where they came from?
There are some people that do accept evolution and the Bible, but in doing so, they're basically saying they don't believe in Genesis, where it says that God created everyone *from their own kind*. So, yes. It's not impossible, but it's Biblically incorrect.
Besides, what I was trying to say in this entry is basically: Christians and creationists aren't stupid. Try to stop making us out to be anti-science, Bible-thumping idiots. :)