re: #60 freetoken

As an example of how religious fervor does indeed trump pretty much anything else, I offer an update to the Adam and Eve question.

Several fundamentalist-leaning Presbyterian churches around the country are now inserting the requirement for a literal Adam and Eve into their doctrine:

Adam and Eve historicity debate enters the Associate Reformed Presbyterian courts

Rocky Mountain Presbytery asks for the following similar statements:

On February 18 the Session of Midlane Park Presbyterian (ARP) in Louisville, Kentucky adopted a memorial (the ARP title for what other churches call an overture) on the same topic. […]

And so forth.

In other words, when presented with additional evidence, these people double down on literalism by inserting language into their formal doctrines calling for it.

They are doing this because some self-professed evangelicals such as Francis Collins have been pushing the idea that genetics clearly shows that everyone did not descend from just two humans, 6000 years ago or even 70,000 years ago.

This is America.

This is Santorum’s America.

But what about the Nephelim?!?!?

1. When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,
2. The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
3. Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
4. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

They sound like Greek Demi-gods to me (harumph harumph). But it’s in the Bible so it must be true.