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1 | which came first the chicken or the egg | Gen 1:20 | joetatep | 33154 | ||
which came first the chicken or the egg? what passage in the bible can we find the answer. | ||||||
2 | which came first the chicken or the egg | Gen 1:20 | SRN | 33193 | ||
As I've seen it lately. The story of Genises 1, is just a break down of evolution. This does offend some I know. There is no black/white situation, it's more egg/chicken/egg/chicken/egg etc and vise versa. | ||||||
3 | which came first the chicken or the egg | Gen 1:20 | Curtnsally | 33204 | ||
In my humble opinion, Genesis is not a "how" story. If God wanted to tell us how He created everything in the universe, it would take a lot more than one book. Genesis is, I believe, a "who" story which tells us "God created". This is the message we take from the book. "In the beginning, God created..." thus the "who" is established. As to evolution: in the study of living things, there is no question that things evolve. This observation is a far cry from the ill-conceived notion that somehow all living things were created through evolution, which is a non-starter both theologically and in the fossil record. This is where scientists and believers get confused. Some scientists try to take micro evolution and turn it into creation. Some Christians try to disavow all evolution as a communist plot... a serious mistake on both sides. We don't have to commit intellectual suicide to be Christians, nor do we have to be atheists to be scientists. Science and theology are both a search for the truth, and in God's world, they are in perfect harmony, as God is the author of all truth. When we seek truth, we should reconcile what we see in science with what we know theologically. If they don't match, we need to review our thinking to see where we are wrong. We should not settle for for bad or contrived "truth" on either side, but seek to find harmony of all truth as best we can... not by disavowing portions of theology or science, but by digging deeper to get to the "real" truth. As Christians, we must be careful not to throw out the baby with the bath water. Just because some folks in the scientific community try to wrongly assert creation through evolution, we should not assert that there is no such thing as evolution just to prove them wrong. I am perfectly comfortable saying, "Living things have evolved (generally within species), but God created them first". This is consistent with Biblical theology and modern science. As scientists, we must not follow those who assert false truth in order to rationalize their own personal theological (or a-theistic) position. We should examine the scientific truth and let facts speak for themselves. God gives us wisdom to understand the knowledge we collect. The beauty of our faith is that we don't have to be ostriches. We can examine theological truth in the full light of science and scientific truth in the full light of Scripture... we know that God makes it all work together... real "truth" is inseperable. To the extent that we can explain the consistencies of Scripture and scientific knowledge (which, as Christians, we believe are harmonious), we gain credibility both as scientists and as theologians. |
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4 | which came first the chicken or the egg | Gen 1:20 | Aspiring Overseer | 33326 | ||
My Friend, Is it your opinion that man evolved? If so, what evidence do you have? Why would it be so impossible to believe God's design was to create everything fully grown and mature in every respect? Is anything impossible with God? Does attempting to piece together assumptions in incomplete and incredible schemes serve a useful purpose for you? We can always prove scripture through science, but we should not "bend" scripture to meet our scientific assumptions. That, my friend, is being a true "ostrich". |
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5 | which came first the chicken or the egg | Gen 1:20 | Hank | 33337 | ||
Dear new user Aspiring: There is a world of difference between micro- and macro-evolution. In its simplest terms, micro-evolution involves minor adaptive changes within a species in response to environmental stimuli. Macro-evolution is enormously broader in scope, embracing quantum leaps from simple cells to complex organisms, not only crossing over boundaries of species but actually creating new species in the evolutionary process. An example of micro-evolution is race. God created one man and one woman, Adam and Eve. They were of one "race" and color, obviously. They could not have been all races and all colors that are extant in the world today. It is micro-evolution (adaptation) that accounts for the fact that we have people of African, Asian, and European ancestry in the world today, people of different skin tones and other physiognomic characteristics. These adaptive changes (mico-evolution) in no way present the slightest contradiction or interpretive challenge to the truth of Genesis; macro (Darwinian) evolution clearly does. It was mico-evolution, unless I am much mistaken, about which Curtnsally was speaking in his post about which you voiced question and concern. For more information about creationism and evolution from a conservative Christian perspective, you may enjoy visiting icr.com on the Web. --Hank | ||||||
6 | which came first the chicken or the egg | Gen 1:20 | Aspiring Overseer | 33340 | ||
Hank, On a second reading of CurtnSally's posting I conceed you are correct. My apologies, CurtnSally. Paul |
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