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Originally posted by wheresmylicense
ok, well, first off... everyone stop telling me what evolution is. i just took biology last year; i know dang well what it is.

Then surely you'd recognize that evolution is no more than the ability of creatures to adapt to their environment, much as you claim the Bible supports.

second, you guys keep sayin it only takes one point to prove something to be false, yadda, yadda, well... i haven't seen a single one of you prove something of the Bible to be untrue, so stop ruling it out.

I don't rule out the possibility of the Bible being true. I don't believe in much of the stories I hear from the Bible because I consider them to be just that, stories. I give the "Boy Who Cried Wolf" as much for being a factual account of historical events as I give the Bible's stories. I don't consider the Bible a history book by any means, even though it is littered with historical events that are widely recognized as being true. There's a big difference between the word of God and a book based upon historical events and fictitious stories that illustrate principles.

"And we have more evidence to support evolution than you do from the bible" as so well-put by GT40.... i just had to laugh, i'm sorry. the day you prove to me that that is true, i might believe you. you're probably getting ready to answer back, "i just did by listing off all of those methods of data/observation." they're all man-made. anything man-made is never unfailing. NEVER.

The Bible is man-made.

one thing that i'd also like to mention is the Bible has constantly disproved science, but science has yet to disprove the Bible. The Bible says within it not only that the earth is spherical, but also that it rotates on an axis, etc. The Bible was DEFINITELY around when science was saying that the earth was flat, or that it was simply suspended in space. bare in mind, these facts were put in the Bible casually and in terms germane to the time-period in which it was written. they're such a small part of the Bible because they're unimportant to what is trying to be taught.

Scientists were also claiming the Earth was round well before the general populace accepted it as true. Bear in mind, though, that the general populace were people who believed in the Bible. If they followed the Bible, why did they not believe the Earth was spherical? It was well in the BC era that scientists considered the earth as round. When did everybody start reading the Bible (I have non clue)?

Another question: what version of the Bible do you read? All Bibles are not translated equally. That's another problem with reading the Bible. The only way to truly understand what it says is to read the original Hebrew and understand the Hebrew of the time it was written. All languages change with time as do the meanings of their lexicon. It is difficult to truly understand the original author's intentions withough understanding the lexicon of the day it was written. That's no easy task that scholars have struggled with for years and years and they still can't all agree on exactly what it all says.