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 Originally Posted by Thunder
At least this is more palatable than creationism. Though the reverend gives the credit for evolution to God, it still contradicts the bible (dinosaurs, creation of the world, making man from clay). How does he explain all that and the fact we are related to simians after al?
Theistic evolutionists don't take the Old Testament, in particular Genesis, literally. Seven days doesn't have to be seven 24-hour periods. "Day" One can mean the Big Bang theory, or whatever theory you subscribe to. Dinosaurs can certainly have been created and then gone extinct during "Day" Six. The specific references to the creation of man can mean anything from guiding the evolution to the creation of man's soul in such a context. And most of the large Christian denominations (Roman Catholics, Anglicans, most Protestant religions) do now count themselves as theistic evolutionists.
It's really the fundamentalist Christian movement (and mostly in the US) that's coming up with this loud Creationist and Intelligent Design craziness.
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