Originally Posted By davewasbaloo "But I believe that God would use science to create the Earth and the animals and humans who live on it. So for me, evolution and creationism can exist together." Agreed
Originally Posted By Labuda "I believe in evolution. But who knows, maybe one starting family that led to homo sapiens was named Adam and Eve? Of course, that wasn't really their names. They didn't speak English, so it was probably Hunnuh and Huguni or something." Agreed with the fabulous Ursula!
Originally Posted By Labuda Also, for those of you who do belive in Adam & Eve, I have an honest question that I would like to ask, and I do hope that no one takes offense from it in ANY way. But, this is something I've been wondering for a while, but never had the opportunity to ask when I was a regular attendee of Mass becuase I just didn't think about it... So, here goes: If God created Adam & Eve, where did Cain's wife come from? Again, I mean NO disrespect to anyone, but I wonder this and am hoping someone can answer it for me. Thanks, all!
Originally Posted By JazzCat Excellent question Labuda! I wish I could answer it for you! Autopia Deb, that's what I was gonna say! I'm going to have to say Adam and Eve, but with the stipulation that God created dinosauers, cavemen and other such creatures.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Labuda - you might want to read this... <a href="http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1535505" target="_blank">http://everything2.com/index.p l?node_id=1535505</a>
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb without reading Lisa's link first (because it's taking forever to load, lol)... I always assumed that when A and E were cast out into the land of Nod, there were other people there and Genesis was (among other things) a chronology of A and E's family leading to Noah. The bible never said other people weren't created after the first 2, at least to my knowledge. That's all strictly opinion and conjecture. Now I'm going to read Lisa's link and see if there's egg on my face.
Originally Posted By markedward There are how many hundreds of creation stories in the world? What are the odds that the one my culture tells is a) factually true and b) exclusively true? I think it's pretty obvious I wrote the above as a criticism of the Adam and Eve story. But do you notice how it works just as well as a criticism of evolution theory as well? "I find more value in questioning than in dogma." Something like that is part of what every new member says when joining my admittedly liberal church.
