re: #107 Fozzie Bear

No, but there is nothing logically inconsistent with the belief that the universe was created with laws set up such that the emergence of intelligent life is inevitable.

You can be a believer in God, and simultaneously believe that life in its current form evolved. There’s no conflict there.

Except for the fact that almost any believer was informed about their god through holy texts, in the case of our discussion, the Hebrew and Greek scriptures.

Almost NO ONE was just suddenly infused with a “god knowledge.” They were taught, nurtured, first by their family (what ever that comprised of), then possibly by a rabbi, priest, minister or wise person, then maybe some self-examination, study, what ever, but they came upon the concept based on those holy writings.

And this is where science comes in. The science behind archeology, textual criticism, linguistics, geology, I could go on and on. And science has proven that the foundational material, the holy books, are flawed, in many areas. The writings are a collection of existing myths borrowed from other cultures, partial history, mystical events that scientifically could not have happened, outright misstatements of facts and so on.

Creationism, even 6 day creationism is a plausible as any other concept connected with the god of the Hebrew and Greek texts. Genesis starts with “…G-D created…” If you believe in that G-d, everything that comes after that statement is possible.