:The concept of one ancestor violates the fundamental principles of a random process in relation to genetics and mathematic probabilities. For evolution to be true it is required that there be so many different base strands of DNA that we must be able to accurately place every organism on Earth into a specific genetic family and not be able to move species around the way evolutionists do today
This is so unintelligible it's not even wrong.
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Evidence that populations descended from the 16 grandsons of Noah
by hooberus 32 Replies latest watchtower bible
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toreador
The concept of one ancestor violates the fundamental principles of a random process in relation to genetics and mathematic probabilities. For evolution to be true it is required that there be so many different base strands of DNA that we must be able to accurately place every organism on Earth into a specific genetic family and not be able to move species around the way evolutionists do today
HUH???
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frankiespeakin
Myths in the Bible.
The way I see it, myths are good thing, as men began to evolve a bigger brain, and as his intelligence grew, he needed answers. Myths help explain what was currently unexplainable. They help man makes sense of his world.
All ancient cultures, have myths, the Hebrews are no different, from the people that surrounded them. They had questions that needed answers, and myths provided some of those answers, or at least attempted.
Many Bible scholars, recognize in the first 19 chapters Genesis, is medieval history.
Many persons especially of the fundamentalist background act as if the Bible dropped out of the sky from God. They forget that the Bible was not written in a vacuum, but it naturally reflects the cultures in which it was written with all their wrong understandings of science and nature.
I think it is ridiculous to conclude that God is going to correct ancient cultures of all their wrong understandings simply because he's having dealings with a particular group. If it is God's purpose for man is to evolve why would he, spoil it for his species, to learn about the universe the natural way he intended.
If God transcends time and space, and he communicates with creatures who are limited by time and space such as ourselves, he cannot possibly explain his existence and what absolute reality is to us, and so he meets us where we are in the stream of time and understanding.
The Bible was written by man not wholly under direct inspiration of God, like I might use the keys of typewriter, so that every word that's in the Bible is directly from God and infallible.
The Bible is a collection of many different types of literature in many different styles, some are myths, poems, moral stories, and other genera that was common at the time and in the culture in which it was written. There are even fairy tales in the Bible.
Often the words and thoughts in the Bible, reflects the writer's interpretation of events, these events were not written down immediately after they happened, but were told as stories for decades, or even hundreds of years, and then finally collected and written. While at times they may reflect accurately on customs of the past, they can hardly be relied upon to be accurate history as we today in the 21st-century view history, and reporting of history.
The Bible reflects especially in that beginning chapters Genesis, how much stories can change as being told and retold over long periods of time, and then later written down, by a skilled storyteller of the time.