Genesis And Evolution

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Everone needs to see this:
http://evolutiondismantled.com/evolution

[Basilisa Marie]

For what it's worth, the Catholic Church does hold that we can believe in a "literal" interpretation of Genesis, or that God used something that resembles the scientific theory of evolution.  As long as you hold to the truths that God is the Creator, creation is good, humans are special, God wants to have a relationship with humanity, and the Bible isn't a lie...you're pretty much good.  

 

Personally I'm in the camp that the scientists who study the theory of evolution (and all that goes with it) know what they're talking about, and that Genesis is speaking about deeper truths than "God made a human out of literal dust and literally created every single organism as it is today." Whether or not Noah got a pair of every single animal onto an Ark made of gopherwood without all the animals killing each other during a flood that covered the entire globe isn't important to me.  What's important to me is that God made a covenant with Noah, that creation is good but we can royally screw things up.  

 

Plus there are two creation stories in the Bible.  In one, humans are created last.  In the other, humans are created first.  That alone shows me that they aren't meant to be purely historical or scientific accounts.  Genesis doesn't have to be a literal, infallible history book for it to be true. 

[Seven77]

Here is what I think––

 

The earth is millions of years old as scientists say. This can be reconciled with the fact that with God 1 days like 1 million years. So far so good. What about evolution? Remember those spots on Sesame Street with the camera progression? Flowers, plants, and nature unfolding instantaneously? Well, it seems to me that from God's perspective, outside of time, everything happens instantaneously like camera progression. But from our perspective everything unfolds slowly--very slowly. When God created animals, he created them instantaneously--but if we were to see this, it would unfold slowly over time.

 

I think that evolution can be understood and reconciled with our faith in ways such as the above.