Did God use evolution to create life

[jfrog]

Originally Posted by Jason Badejo

"No one + No thing =everything" -John MacArthur on Evolution

Is that man even a scientist? Does he have a degree in any of the sciences? Does he have a degree in biology or anything related? If not then why listen to him on matters of science?

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Jason Badejo

Pel, do you believe God literally created ADAM as the first human being?

Yes. "Literally created."

To be clear, I also believe that God "literally created" you and I in a similar manner, "from the dust of the earth."

[Jason B]

Originally Posted by pelathais

Yes. "Literally created."

To be clear, I also believe that God "literally created" you and I in a similar manner, "from the dust of the earth."

So you reject the theory that ADAM was simply a metaphoric term for humanity (but there was not personal ADAM who related to God), but you believe that all else in the first few chapters of Genesis was essentially poetic or figurative?

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Jason Badejo

"No one + No thing =everything" -John MacArthur on Evolution

Originally Posted by jfrog

Is that man even a scientist? Does he have a degree in any of the sciences? Does he have a degree in biology or anything related? If not then why listen to him on matters of science?

I'm certain that he's a very nice man, however Jason; given the amount of vomit that MacArthur compels you to expel on other issues, is he really the best source of information for you?

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by pelathais

Yes. "Literally created."

To be clear, I also believe that God "literally created" you and I in a similar manner, "from the dust of the earth."

Did He form Eve from one of Adam's ribs?

[coadie]

Originally Posted by jfrog

Is that man even a scientist? Does he have a degree in any of the sciences? Does he have a degree in biology or anything related? If not then why listen to him on matters of science?

Now now.
Charles Darwin did get a degree. The bad news it was in theology.

He of course didn't use a microscope. Kids in middle school today have microscopes.
Charles Darwin had a very captivating story telling writing style.

[coadie]

Originally Posted by pelathais

I'm certain that he's a very nice man, however Jason; given the amount of vomit that MacArthur compels you to expel on other issues, is he really the best source of information for you?

[coadie]

Originally Posted by Jason Badejo

So you reject the theory that ADAM was simply a metaphoric term for humanity (but there was not personal ADAM who related to God), but you believe that all else in the first few chapters of Genesis was essentially poetic or figurative?

Instead of saying it isn't true, they use words like poetic, metaphor, parable and figurative.

John 5:46
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Jason Badejo

So you reject the theory that ADAM was simply a metaphoric term for humanity (but there was not personal ADAM who related to God), but you believe that all else in the first few chapters of Genesis was essentially poetic or figurative?

I don't quite follow what you are saying, asking or telling me what I believe here.

I believe that all human beings are literally descended from one single breeding pair as described in Genesis 1, and Genesis 2. The accounts of creation in Genesis are a compilation of different original works that were composed by Hebrew writers during the pre-Exilic Kingdom period of Israel's history. These accounts were redacted (compiled together with a supporting narrative) in the time of Ezra the Scribe as an etiology for the claims to the land that the returning Exiles were seeking to assert.

"Adam" can be a "metaphoric term for humanity" (Psalm 8:4, Hebrew = "what is 'adam' that thou art mindful of him...?"). However, modern genetic studies have clearly proven that all of the human race alive today (and alive in antiquity) descended from a single breeding pair of "parents.' Literally, as in "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare..."

That's how you and I ultimately got here, Brother.

[coadie]

Originally Posted by Jason Badejo

"No one + No thing =everything" -John MacArthur on Evolution

Matter plus chance plus time are the 3 ingredients in evolution. From the primordial soup to athletes. Muck to mallards.