Making waves (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 15:05 (3989 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: The bible is not anti-evolution. It again depends on the interpretation. If God guided evolution then the bible is correct. Just stay away from the 6-day creation of the KJV. Yom always means an instant in time to an eon. Take your pick.
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> dhw: Please tell me the biblical text that can be interpreted as meaning that "bovines, fish, birds and primates" all go back to a common ancestor. You keep telling us that God's purpose for evolution was humans, and of all the bible-versus-evolution controversies, this is surely the most far-reaching: Ge, 2, 7: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Ge. 2, 21-22: "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman..." Please explain to me how to interpret that as meaning that humans and chimps split off from a common ancestor.-Cherry-picker! In Genesis 1:20 "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures". If Yom is an 'eon', the swarm developed over time. The bible is written to be interpreted, not taken verbatim.